Sport and Recreation Management Major and Minor

The Sport and Recreation Management major offers you the unique business, management, marketing, and ethics expertise to succeed in the business of sport. The career-focused curriculum will prepare you to be a critical thinker, interdisciplinary in your approach, and capable of effectively managing and marketing sport and recreation enterprises across an array of career paths.

The Sport and Recreation Management program is focused on preparing you for your future career, providing you with management principles related to planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling. Topics to be covered will include, but are not limited to sport and recreation administration, event management, marketing, revenue streams, sponsorship and sales and collegiate athletics.

Job growth within the field of Sport and Recreation Management is on the rise. There is demand in the marketplace for well-educated and well-trained candidates. As part of your training, majors are encouraged to pursue internships to gain invaluable on-the-job skills. The Sport and Recreation Management Program prepares students for not only the next steps in their career but also for graduate school. Many graduates will go on to pursue their master’s in various programs such as: an MBA, MS in Sport Management, MS in Marketing, or MA in Communication.

• Sport and Recreation Management Major Requirements and Learning Outcomes
• Sport and Recreation Management Minor Requirements

Courses You’ll Love

• Sport and Recreation in Society
• Sport and Recreation Marketing & Revenue Streams
• Sport and Recreation Facility and Event Management
• Sport and Recreation Legal Studies
• Sport and Recreation Strategy and Leadership
• History of Women in Sports

Minor in Coaching

The Sport and Recreation Management program offers a minor in Coaching, preparing students with the required business, managerial, and leadership skills for pursuing careers in coaching and athletics administration at the youth, high school and collegiate levels.

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Our New BSBA Degree

The newly-developed Curry College Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree offers our students the option to major in Accounting, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Management, Marketing and/or Sport and Recreation Management. The program is designed to develop students into well-rounded professionals who possess a solid foundation in core business concepts, critical thinking abilities, ethical decision-making skills, effective communication practices, and the capacity to seamlessly transition into professional organizational settings, both during and after Curry.