Course Title: Sports Management

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Sports Management

Credit Points: 12.00

Terms

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

BUSM3330

City Campus

Postgraduate

115H Aerospace, Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering

Face-to-Face

Sem 1 2016

BUSM3330

City Campus

Postgraduate

172H School of Engineering

Face-to-Face

Sem 1 2017

Course Coordinator: Peter Dabnichki

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 7278

Course Coordinator Email: peter.dabnichki@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: Building: 251 Level: 3 Room: 61 Bundoora East campus


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

None


Course Description

This course covers the principles of Sports Management, Sports Marketing, and Sports Economics. This course is intended to represent the problems and solutions that a new graduate might be expected to undertake shortly after starting work as a professional sports technologist. In this course you are required to undertake an individual project which requires you to demonstrate technical skills and personal attributes at levels which are commensurate with professional sports technology practice.

 


 


Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

This course contributes to the development of the following Program Learning Outcomes.

1. Needs, Context and Systems

  • Describe, investigate and analyse complex engineering systems and associated issues (using systems thinking and modelling techniques)
  • Exposit legal, social, economic, ethical and environmental interests, values, requirements and expectations of key stakeholders

 

4. Professional Practice

  • Understand the scope, principles, norms, accountabilities and bounds of contemporary engineering practice in the specific discipline
  • Communicate in a variety of different ways to collaborate with other people, including accurate listening, reading and comprehension, based on dialogue when appropriate, taking into account the knowledge, expectations, requirements, interests, terminology and language of the intended audience
  • Demonstrate orderly management of self, and professional conduct. 


Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs)

After successful completion of this course, you should be able to:

  1. Apply knowledge and demonstrate understanding of the principles of sports management, marketing and economics;
  2. Identify and develop solutions to sports managements problems


Overview of Learning Activities

Learning activities for this course include face-to-face lectures and tutorials. The basic theoretical background will be explained in the lectures and various real-world technology problems will be discussed and analysed in the lectures and tutorials. The individual project exposes you to managerial problem solving under close supervision of the course coordinator.


Overview of Learning Resources

You will typically need to use professional level resources such as one prescribed textbook,  lecture notes available on course Blackboard (accessed via myRMIT), and specialist books and journals that are accessible in the RMIT library and other major libraries. Internet sources may be helpful, but will not be sufficient by themselves.


Overview of Assessment

 X This course has no hurdle requirements.

☐ All hurdle requirements for this course are indicated clearly in the assessment regime that follows, against the relevant assessment task(s) and all have been approved by the College Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor (Learning & Teaching).

 

Assessment Tasks

Assignment
Weighting 40%
This assessment supports CLOs 1-2

Individual project / documentation
Weighting 50%
This assessment supports CLOs 1-2

Examinations (oral)
Weighting 10%
This assessment supports CLOs 1-2