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Intuition | Integrity | Intentionality
Look at Tess' projects below to get an idea of what she's worked on throughout her graduate studies at Coastal Carolina University. The samples of work demonstrate how she has implemented the skills learned in courses from concept to execution.
Graduate Portfolio
Masters Sport Management Program, Coastal Carolina University
Governance & Policy
This course, taught by Dr. Chelsea White-Kaunert, was designed to provide knowledge and awareness of the rules, regulations, and/or policies governing various sport organizations. Highlighting the missions, memberships, financial and organizational structures related to professional, international, intercollegiate, scholastic, and amateur sport, they learned the importance differences in how sport is governed.
Leadership Theory & Application
Led by Dr. Colleen McGlone, this course provided students with an in-depth review of contemporary organizational leadership theories and concepts. This course was unique because students learned about what leadership style they best learned from and what styles they lead with. Understanding effective leadership principles and practices applicable within different environments and employees within the sport management profession will be a useful tool as future sport managers. Additional concepts such as motivation, organizational communication, conflict management, organizational culture, strategic planning, and professional ethics were analyzed and discussed to assist their future careers.
Legal Issues
This sport law course enabled graduate students to expand their knowledge on some of the laws, rules, and regulations that apply to the sport business industry and that impact the work setting of sport organizations. Dr. Justin Lovich taught substantive legal concepts in the following core areas of law: constitutional, employment, antitrust, labor, intellectual property, agency, and contract and business law. Understanding the legal issues involved in the operation and management of organizations in the sport business industry equipped students with the skills and strategies needed to effectively work with business executives and lawyers to resolve these issues.
Sport Fan Behavior (Marketing)
Providing students with comprehensive coverage of sport spectator consumer behavior, Dr. Nikolas Webster emphasized on theory development, review of research, and marketing applications through various psychological models and paradigms relevant to sport marketing. Students were well acquainted with issues and trends in sport marketing and consumption through student-led class discussions, marketing pitches, and marketing research.
Research Methods
Dr. Donald Rockey provided students with the appropriate skills and perspectives to conduct effective research on problems that decision-makers in the sport industry face. Basic methodological approaches to research, how to use data tools and programs commonly used in a business and/or research setting, and how to analyze data using basic statistical techniques common in sport management research was also discussed.
Revenue Generation & Fiscal Management
This course was designed to examine both economic and fiscal theories as they are applied to the sport management industry. Assigning us various projects on economic and fiscal issues, Dr. Justin Lovich taught and focused on how we, as future employees in sport, can make effective fiscal decisions.