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HL30472: Sports policy 2: managing sport in the global environment

Academic Year: 2018/9
Owning Department/School: Department for Health
Credits: 6      [equivalent to 12 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 120
Level: Honours (FHEQ level 6)
Period:
Semester 2
Assessment Summary: CW 50%, OT 50%
Assessment Detail:
  • Assignment (1500 words) (CW 50%)
  • Presentation (15 minutes) (OT 50%)
Supplementary Assessment:
Reassessment not allowed
Requisites: Before taking this module you must take HL30471
Description: Aims:
To develop a critical understanding and appreciation of the key theoretical aspects that shape the global sports nexus. To enable a critical examination of competing theories that impact upon a broader understanding of globalisation and its impact upon sport. To develop an understanding of contemporary issues associated with management in the private and voluntary sector.

Learning Outcomes:
By the end of this unit a student will be able to:
1. Demonstrate an appreciation of management within both the private and voluntary sector.
2. Demonstrate a critical, theoretical, and contextually grounded understanding of contemporary sport.
3. Illustrate the explicit connections between contemporary sport and the broader economic, technological, political, cultural, and geographic forces which shape society.
4. Identify the derivations, structures, processes, and practices of globalization, as manifest within wider society, and sport in particular.
5. Apply an understanding of a variety of specific management techniques located within the context of a contemporary global society.

Skills:
Communication, critical thinking and research skills.

Content:

* Sport and social capital, sports management in the commercial/voluntary sector.
* Managing marketing within the context of the global sport environment.
* Managing financial and non-financial resource within the context of the global sport environment.
* Introduction to contemporary issues that shape and impact upon strategic sports management within a global environment.
* Theorising globalisation.
* Sport and labour migration.
* Global sporting mega-events.
* Sport as a media spectacle.
* Sport and corporate [trans]nationalism.
Programme availability:

HL30472 is Optional on the following programmes:

Department for Health
  • UHHL-AFB12 : BSc(Hons) Sport (Sports Performance) (Work-based learning) (Year 1)

Notes:

  • This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2018/19 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2019/20 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2018/19.
  • Programmes and units are subject to change in accordance with normal University procedures.
  • Availability of units will be subject to constraints such as staff availability, minimum and maximum group sizes, and timetabling factors as well as a student's ability to meet any pre-requisite rules.
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