Minor in Sports Enterprise Management

The minor in Sports Enterprise Management is designed for undergraduate students in any major at UW Tacoma to provide a foundational understanding and set of tools necessary to navigate the evolving environment of Sports Enterprise Management.

The minor prepares students to develop critical thinking skills and to analyze the business environment in the sports industry. The curriculum enables students to discover evidence and determine actions to be taken to support the activities of for-profit and not-for-profit sports enterprises.

The Sports Enterprise Management minor requires 25 credits:

• 15 credits from three required courses
• 10 credits of electives from the approved elective list

No more than 10 credits may be counted toward both the Minor in Sports Enterprise Management and another major or minor.

Before you can declare a minor, you must have declared a major and earned a minimum of 45 credits.

Learning Outcomes

Students achieving a minor in Sports Enterprise Management will be able to:

• Develop and apply critical thinking and abstract reasoning skills in analyzing sport management issues and in decision making.
• Identify and analyze ethical, legal, and socio-cultural issues, and formulate responses for use in managerial decision making and policy determinations in sport. 
• Employ principles of evidence-based management, strategic planning, data analytics, and financial management.
• Describe how sport is a medium for integrating gender issues, ethnic, religious, and disabilities interests.
• Apply personal ethics and ethical theory to issues in the business of sport.