Oct 13, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Sport Management, B.S.


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The Sport Management program at York College of Pennsylvania is unique because of its comprehensive and interdisciplinary design. Students experience a rigorous sport management curriculum reflective of the breadth of the profession, and also have the opportunity to gain specialized expertise through elective sequences from other academic disciplines that will help prepare them for positions in the various segments of the sport management industry. Examples of these elective sequences include: Accounting, Applied Youth Development, Athletic Coaching, Entrepreneurship, Hospitality Marketing, Human Resource Management, Information Systems, International Business, Legal Studies, Management, Marketing, Not-For-Profit Management, Operations Management, Professional Writing, Public Relations, Retailing, Speech Communication, and Student-Initiated Sequence.

A hallmark of the program is an emphasis on experiential learning. Students enter the major with a four-semester (freshman/sophomore), four-credit practicum experience, and end their academic journey with a nine-credit capstone work experience.

The sport management degree program at York College of Pennsylvania has received specialized accreditation through the Commission on Sport Management Accreditation (COSMA) located in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. The sport management program in the following degree is accredited by COSMA:

  • Bachelor of Science in Sport Management

Sport Management, B.S. Learning Outcomes  

Degree Requirements

Institutional Degree Requirements  

Program-Specific Degree Requirements: To be eligible for graduation, students majoring in Sport Management must complete all program requirements including a minimum of 121 credits, achieve a minimum grade of a 2.0 in all required courses in the major and in the student’s chosen elective sequence.

General Education Requirement


First Year Seminar


Foundations Requirement


Communications course:


Advanced Communication course:


Quantitative Fluency course:


American Citizenship course:


Global Citizenship course:


Disciplinary Perspectives Requirement


Choose 3 credits of the following Arts courses:


Social and Behavioral Sciences course:


Choose 3 credits of the following Natural and Physical Sciences courses:


Constellation Requirement


The Constellation requirement is met when a student completes four courses from a minimum of three disciplines within the Constellation requirements. Students who transfer in 60 credits or more at the time of admission to the college will be waived from the Constellation requirement, except for Education majors. The waiver applies to the requirement for graduation but does not waive the credits to graduate; students need to meet the overall bachelor’s degree credit requirement.

All students majoring in Sport Management will take SPM 230  and SPM 470  (High Impact Practice and Innovation courses) which will fulfill both a major requirement and 6 credits of the constellation requirement for any constellation.

Required Courses


Required Major Courses


General Elective Courses


Students must complete 12-18 free elective courses. Within these 12-18 credits of electives, a minor must be declared and completed OR a self-designed sequence must be approved by the advisor and chair. 

Suggested Course Sequence


Freshman Year


Fall Semester (16 credits)


Spring Semester (16 credits)


Sophomore Year


Junior Year


Fall Semester (16 credits)


Spring Semester (16 credits)


Senior Year


Fall Semester (13 credits)


Spring Semester (12 credits)


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