Course Description
Provides students with knowledge and skills to work effectively as leaders and managers, emphasizing diversity and inclusion in professional, collegiate, and recreational sport, community sport clubs, and sport federations/associations. Students will learn leadership and management styles to help create diverse, inclusive, and equitable organizational cultures in sport industry.
Athena Title
Global Sport Lead Dev Div Incl
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in KINS 5950E
Prerequisite
KINS 3430 or KINS 3430E
Semester Course Offered
Not offered on a regular basis.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
- Students will know how to examine inclusive leadership and management styles in sport.
- Students will gain knowledge and skills about strategic leadership and management and apply them in times of crisis in real-life situations.
- Students will possess knowledge and experiences on diversity to be innovative in varying areas of the sport industry.
- Students will gain a general understanding of best practice examples used in sport for development to enable them to develop culturally responsive programs in their communities.
- Students will gain knowledge and apply the information to diversely focusing on leadership, management, and social responsibility.
Topical Outline
- a. Types of leaders and managers in sport industry
- b. Strategic leadership and management in diverse sport industry settings
- c. Leadership, diversity, and inclusion in varying environments
- d. Leadership and management opportunities that promote social responsibility and social change
- e. Sport innovation in varying areas of sport industry located in worldwide communities
- f. Sport for development in local and global environments
- g. Diverse and culturally responsive programs that promote sport for social change
