This degree combines coursework from multiple academic disciplines to prepare students to work in a variety of sports-related?fields, such as sports information, journalism, broadcasting, digital production, media relations, and promotion and marketing.

Expected student learning outcomes include:

• Students will be able to communicate orally.
• Students will be able to communicate effectively in writing.
• Students will be able to communicate effectively using a variety of communication and information technologies and media.
• Students will be able to explain the significance of major moments in communication and media history (especially as they relate to sport).
• Students will be able to analyze and evaluate individual, group, and mass media messages for how they work and for their consequences.
• Students will be sensitive to and respectful of cultural differences in communicative and media practices.
• Students will be able to recognize an ethical responsibility to other individuals, the community, the discipline, the profession, and society as a whole based on various perspectives and associated standards of ethical communication in face-to-face and mediated environments.
• Students will be able to explain how sport is impacted by various technologies and media.