2025-2026 Catalog 
    
    Aug 02, 2025  
2025-2026 Catalog

Health and Human Kinetics, Sport Management and Coaching, Major (B.A.)


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Professors Martin, Fink
Associate Professors Busch, Nix
Assistant Professor Starns

Students may choose this major to prepare for opportunities in a variety of fields that combine sport activities with career opportunities in sport management, marketing, and finance. Students go on to work for companies and programs varying from local, private, chain, or nonprofit organizations to professional sports teams.

Learning Objectives


Students in HHK will demonstrate increased competency in the following areas as they progress across the departmental curriculum.

  1. Students will demonstrate a competency in current, evidence-based content in the field.
  2. Students will demonstrate the ability to apply this content to their own health, movement, nutrition, and/or sport practices.
  3. Students will effectively use content and theoretical foundations to predict and plan experiences for a range of populations in health, movement, nutrition, and/or sport.
  4. Students will effectively integrate theoretical foundations and applied experiences in health, movement, nutrition, and/or sport to take a critical stand on pertinent issues in the field.
  5. Students will demonstrate an ability to apply content, theory, and experiences in a complex and varying environment, to assess outcomes, and then reflect on and improve their practices in these environments. 
  6. Students will use their growth in the field in leadership positions where they connect with and serve a range of communities.
  7. Students will demonstrate an ability to critically reflect on their growth across the HHK curriculum.

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