Course Path
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"Industry Professionals value students who possess a vastly wide amount of knowledge, so that when the time arrives, they are able to adapt to any challenges thrown their way."
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Through this, it is recommended as a student you expand your skillset by pursuing more broad areas of study, such as Marketing, Finance, or Law. Any student graduating with a business or law degree will retain incomparable knowledge that sets them up for success as an agent. The wide range of acquired skills sets you apart from the competition, and will provide huge separation from your competitors when you are first entering the industry.
Marketing
Learn to manage brands, asses market trends, and promote goods and service.
Finance
Learn to properly manage money in order to return th highest profits and maintain even higher security.
Law
Learn every aspect of the law, from prior cases to state vs federal law, while learning how to present and debate your points when defending a client.
TTU Courses-21 hours of electives
SPMT 1302: Introduction to Sport Management
This freshmen level course is a fantastic course to begin your underclassmen years with. Touching on broad concepts of sport management such as representation, facility management, and Sport Organization control, this course will help guide you into the world of sports at an easy pace, allowing you to further decide if you want to enter into the industry.
SPMT 4356: Fundamentals of Sport Marketing
Jumping to senior level courses in the Sports Management classes, this course is perfectly coupled with a major in marketing. It dives deep into the detail of building player and team brands and maintaining good standing with those, while evaluating market changes to facilitate new growth.
SPMT 4357: Financial and Economic Aspects of Sport
This senior level course focuses on the empirical and monetary side of sports management, inviting students to learn about what goes on behind closed doors evaluating the finances of sport organizations while keeping track over market changes and the time value of money in contracts and in new facilities. Recommended heavily for Finance or Accounting majors.
SPMT 4359: Sports Law and Governance
Arguably the most important course to take as an elective, this class assuredly needs teacher approval if you aren’t a Sports Management major. If acquired, you will learn about several legal issues facing the sports world, while reviewing league contracts and the most common court cases brought up in sports. This course provides aspiring agents highly valuable information that could put them ahead of the competition, especially if considering law school.
PR 3354:
Sports PR
This Junior level course touches on the public relations side of things in the sporting world. As discussed, you will be required to manage your clients personal brand as an agent. This course provides valuable insight into how that is done professionally by highlighting concepts taught in sport organizations as a whole used to increase brand image and promotion.
PLAW 4301: Lawyering Skills: Legal Analysis & Advocacy
If admitted to the Pre-Law academy (or with school consent), students in this course will learn about the legal system as a whole, and how to analyze data and past cases to present oral arguments. These skills become valuable in the court room during civil lawsuits.
COMS 3314: Argumentation and Debate
This course teaches students how to properly argue and debate in front of crowds and with professionals. These tools are unexplainably valuable to a sport agent, as a big chunk of your job is to negotiate, whether that be with clients, teams, a jury, or all of the above.