This is an interdisciplinary program housed in the Division of Education. The program is administered by the sport management coordinator. Core courses build a foundation of knowledge and skills related to leadership as well as managing, planning, organizing, budgeting, and decision-making within the context of a sport-related organization or department. Core and appropriate elective courses prepare students for future graduate study or professional careers with a sport related emphasis, including areas of marketing, media, management, and governance in amateur and professional sports as well as parks and recreation organizations. Program Student Learning Outcomes(PSLOs): • Communication: Student will develop individual communication and collaboration skills representing written, verbal, and multi-media forms of which are appropriate for serving all stakeholders within the sport industry. • Critical thinking, problem solving and integrative learning: Students will be able to engage in critical and creative thinking as well as problem-solving appropriate for sport managers across various types of sport organizations and levels of leadership. • Professional and personal development: Students will develop skills for sustained learning as well as personal and professional development through their engagement with sport leadership principles from the perspectives of theory and practice and within practical and volunteer opportunities. • Diversity, civic, and environmental responsibility: Students will gain civic knowledge through service-learning activities connected to local community, national, and international sport and recreation organizations. Students will also grow their intercultural competence and environmental stewardship that will contribute to the sport industry’s efforts towards social and environmental sustainability. • Global interdependence: Students will be able to assess sport and function effectively with regard to international and global sport perspectives, experience, and influence that intersect with organizational objectives and personnel. • Technological literacy: Students will develop skills and understanding associated with electronic information and technology and their impact upon the sport industry’s efforts to disseminate information and programming. • Ethical, legal, and financial practices: Students will develop ethical reasoning skills as they pertain to sport leadership and decision-making across the segments of the sport industry involving governance and policy as well as personnel, legal, and financial aspects.

No grades below C- are allowed. Required courses including electives must be taken A-F, unless they are offered S-N only. A minimum GPA of 2.00 is required in the major to graduate. The GPA includes all, and only, University of Minnesota coursework. Grades of "F" are included in GPA calculation until they are replaced.