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Sport and Recreation Management (MSOM) Program of Study

Total hours: 36

The online master’s in sport and recreation management (MSOM) is a cooperative program between Chadron State (CSC), Peru State (PSC), and Wayne State College (WSC) in Nebraska. This means you can take the core courses of the program through any of these three institutions, then take classes for the sport and recreation focus area through Wayne State.

MSOM core courses: 18 hours

3 hours from one of the following:

  • CA 615 Research Process and Practice (3)
  • CNA 565 Qualitative Research Design (3)
  • EDCI 631 Intro to Graduate Study (3)
  • EDU 603 Introduction to Educational Research Design (3)
  • MGMT 601 Study Design and Data Collection (3)
  • PED 650 Research Design (3)

3 hours from one of the following:

  • MATH 533 Stats Methods/Data Analysis (3)
  • MGMT 602 Stats Methods/Data Analysis (3)
  • PED 622 Stats Applications/Data Analysis (3)
  • PSYCH 538 Behavioral Statistics (3)

One course from each of the following four areas (12 hours):

Leadership

  • BUS 627 Ethics in Leadership (3)
  • BUS 665 Leadership Seminar (3)
  • CNA 561 Case Studies in Organizational Leadership (3)

Note: If a student would like to emphasize leadership in their program of study they may, with special permission from their advisor, take two leadership courses from the above area as part of their 12 hours.

Communication

  • BUS 620 Managerial Communication (3)
  • CNA 575 Communication Law (3)

Organizational behavior

  • BUS 690 Seminar in Organizational Behavior (3)
  • CNA 548 Organizational Communication II (3)

Conflict management and organizational psychology

  • BUS 628 Dispute Resolution Management (3)
  • CNA 617 Topics in Argumentation and Persuasion (3)
  • PSY 535 Industrial Organizational Psychology (3)

Sport and recreation management focus area: 12 hours

3 hours from one of the following:

  • PED 631 Seminar in Sport Management (3) 
  • PED 653 Program Management and Transition of Sport (3)
  • PED 664 Sport Event and Facility Management (3) 

9 elective hours from any of the following:

  • PED 605 The Economy of Sport (3) 
  • PED 610 Legal Aspects of Sport (3) 
  • PED 612 Advanced Sport Marketing and Promotion (3) 
  • PED 671 Recent Lit and Research in HHPS (3)
  • PED 685 Social Issues in Sport (3)

Thesis, scholarly project, or internship: 6 hours

The focus of this part of the program will be to emphasize knowledge integration and application of learned principles.

Course descriptions are available in the WSC General and Graduate Catalog.