Sport Management
Ph.D. in Sport Management
The Ph.D. degree in Sport Management is a program designed around the theoretical frameworks of these disciplines, as well as the applied nature of sport in our society. Core courses are determined in conjunction with the student's major advisor.
- 18 credits hours of sport management core courses
- At least 12 credit hours of statistics/research methods course
- 15 credit hours in a cognate area. Students have chosen cognate areas in such disciplines as Anthropology, Sociology, Psychology, Educational Leadership, Marketing, Management, and Finance.
- 8 credit hours in the Laboratory for Sport Management
- 15 credit hours of Dissertation Research, completion of a comprehensive examination, and successful dissertation defense
Ph.D. Plan of Study
- Sport Management Courses (minimum 18 credits)
- Three Ph.D. seminar courses (each Spring semester) (9 credits)
- EKIN 6300
- EKIN 6310
- EKIN 6315
- Three courses within the Major (9 credits):
- EKIN 5300 Management of Sport Services
- EKIN 5310 Sport Marketing
- EKIN 5325 Legal Aspects of Sport
- EKIN 5315 Sport in Society
- EKIN 5340 Sport Facility and Event Management
- EKIN 5518 Introduction to Sport Based Youth Development
- EKIN 6505 Teaching Strategies to Enhance Learning for Health Fitness and Sport Professionals
- Research Methods and Statistics (minimum 12 credits beyond the master’s
degree)- EPSY 5607 Quantitative Methods in Research II
- EPSY 5613 Multivariate Analysis in Educational Research
- EPSY 6601 Methods and Techniques of Educational Research
- EPSY 5601 Principles & Methods in Educational Research
- EPSY 5610 Applied Regression Analysis for the Education Sciences
- EPSY 5613 Multivariate Analysis in Education
- EPSY 5621 Construction of Evaluative Instruments
- EDCI 6000 Qualitative Methods of Educational Research
- EDCI 6005 Advanced Methods of Qualitative Research
- EDCI 5824 Educational Ethnography
- Sport Management Lab Research (8 credits)
- Students sign up for 1-2 credits of lab research each semester with a sport
management faculty member - Students will be assigned work on specific research projects as designated by
the faculty member.
- Students sign up for 1-2 credits of lab research each semester with a sport
- Cognate Area(s) (15 credits)
- Courses to be taken from outside the Dept. of Kinesiology
Courses may be taken, with the consent of the major advisor and the student’s advisory committee from management, marketing, sociology, psychology, anthropology, educational leadership, management and finance, among others.
- Courses to be taken from outside the Dept. of Kinesiology
- Graduate School Required Doctoral Dissertation Research credits (15 credits minimum)
- GRAD 6950 Doctoral Dissertation Research