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2nd Cycle in Sports Management

General information

Official Code: 6148
Acronym: 2CGD

Certificates

  • Master in Sports Management (120 ECTS credits)
  • Master Course on Sports Management (60 ECTS credits)

Courses Units

Financial Accounting in Sports Management

GD50 - ECTS

The main purpose of the curricular unit Financial Accounting in Sports Management is to develop student´s ability to read, interpret and use corporate financial report, and more particularly to provide the necessary knowledge for the understanding and reading of sports entities’ financial statements.

 

Sports Law

GD22 - ECTS

Central main

Increase the scientific and technical-professional qualification of graduates and, provide the students with skills in the field, specifically in normative reality that surrounds this socio-cultural and economic phenomenon, recognizing in this binomial a legal and plurality space. Thus, they will be able to understand and fulfil in their future academic and professional intervention the legal and political demands of the sport

Specific objectives:
  • Provide the students with specific and specialized knowledge regarding the relations between Sports, or physical and sports activities, and General Law, particularly Sports Law.
  • Identify the legislative reality and all the regulations published either by the Government or by private entities that condition the access, the development and sometimes the outcome of the sports practice.
  • Contribute to clarify the difference between different types of sport namely professional and non-professional, high level, recreational, sport for rehabilitation and sport in school.
  • Prepare the students for accessing the Sports Law sources, interpreting the main legal instruments concerning the potential areas of professional intervention and critically reflecting about the regulation in general.
  • Raise the scientific and technical-professional qualification of students to access sources of sport law, interpret judicial decisions and reflect critically on regulations and jurisprudence in general.
  • Increase the reflection and conceptualization about the need to use the main legal instruments in the organization and management of activities and resources.
  • Develop attitudes and ethical values, procedural and respect to the law to enable future professionals to conduct a professional practice in accordance with the standard, enthusiastic and competent.
  • Increase in students the ability to approach lifelong learning independently.

Sports Event Management

GD48 - ECTS To be aware of the main with special emphasis to the capacity of creating and managing sport events, idealizing, designing, operationalizing and evaluating the actions related with all the phases and steps of a sport event

Sports Facilities Management

GD49 - ECTS To develop the following skills:understand and operationalize the land management of sport facilities, as well as its conception and posterior management and maintenance.

Sports Financial Management

GD51 - ECTS

The course intends to give the students the fundamental knowledge about the financial management of sports organizations. The course will address basic and introductory topics, as well as topics regarding the long-term financial decisions (financing and investment decisions) and also the short-term financial management.

Research Methodology I

GD52 - ECTS

1. Know the field of qualitative researc
2. Knowthe valueof qualitative researchforSport Management
3. Know your application fields
4. Know and apply the main tools for qualitative research
5. Know the capabilities and limitations of research instrument
6. Develop research projects appropriate to the proposed objectiv
7. Interpret the data

 

With this UC is intended that students are able to choose the instrument most suited to your goals, properly apply it and extract the relevant data for their research

Human Resources

GD27 - ECTS

The module of Group Dynamics aims to: i) promote communication, understanding and improving interpersonal relationships in the classroom; and ii) engage the students in a reflection about themselves and the class, defining objectives and intervention strategies.

The module of Leadership aims: i) to review and deepen basic knowledge in leadership; ii) to prepare students to a more reasoned selection of the best methodology to adopt in different situations in their areas of intervention.

Socio-Antropologic Aspects of the Sport

GD24 - ECTS
The main goal is to bring to the students five major themes of sport: sport, politics, racism, xenophobia and social transformation; Sports and Social Inclusion; Sport, culture and identity; Olympism and social values; Doping, sport's truth and the spirit of sports. Being sport a relevant social fact of contemporary life, through the development of these themes it is intended to promote in the students competences of reflection, analysis and socio-anthropological intervention, indispensable to any protagonist in sport's management field.

Organizational Development

GD29 - ECTS

Organizational Development Objectives The Organizational development module aims to present students with the historical background of organizational theories through the ages, not avoiding an analysis of the concept of sport and the characterization of the functioning mode of the sports organizations.
The theme of development and sports development his explored, linking up with the concept of strategy and the presentation of tools and planning techniques.

Sport and Communication

GD54 - ECTS

Identifying constraints related to Sport Management within the Communication.

Interpreting through critical understanding the main issues of the Communication in the context of Sports Management.

Sports Project Management

GD55 - ECTS

- Provide the students with knowledge on entrepreneurship/innovation and their (inherent) relations to the creation and management of sport projects.

- Develop the capacity for initiative, the creativity, and the autonomy both at the decision making and implementation level.

- Promote teamwork and leadership of sport projects.

Sports Marketing

GD56 - ECTS

The course program assumes that students already possess some basic marketing concepts, and that way theoretical concepts won’t be taught very deeply and just revised briefly.

Therefore, the course aims at deepening the practical component of using marketing in the context of sports management, and the program structure is aligned with the sequential stages of decision making and planning in marketing.

The course has thus three main objectives:

- to help the students to understand in which way companies/institutions from the sports area can create and deliver value to their customers and define their marketing strategies

- support the development of analytical competences and in applying the theoretical frameworks that will structure the analysis of the markets, industries, etc.

- support the students in the launching of own businesses in the sports area, in particular with digital marketing strategies

Research Methodology II

GD53 - ECTS

1º Obtain a systemic knowledge in fundamental aspects of research (establishing problems and hypothesis, research designs, research project building, links among purposes-hypothesis-design) and their association to quantitative data analysis.

2º Consolidate data analysis knowledge in the following topics: (i) exploratory and descriptive data analysis; (ii) hypothesis testing, from t tests to ANOVA I, parametric and non-parametric; (iii) correlation and multiple regression.

3º Sound knowledge in data control and analysis methods.

4º Obtain proficiency in the use of Excel and SPSS softwares.

Dissertation/Internship/Project

GD47 - ECTS

Orientation Seminar on Dissertation/Internship/Project

GD46 - ECTS 1. familiarize the students with the research process and with the development of scientific projects in the context of Sports Management;
2. support the students as regards the development of an investigation proposal;
3. develop scientific oral and written communication skills.
4. present the main research lines of the Faculty of Sport, focusing in Sport Management, in order to enable the students to put their own research ideas in perspective and to contextualize them in the context of the institution, as well as to promote scientific and collaborative interactions with investigators.
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