FSCC 18-19-40 New Courses for Sports Management Track in the Physical Education Non-Teaching Degree: This action item proposes the creation of 5 new courses that will become a new track for the Physical Education degree:
PHE 340 – Sports Marketing
PHE 345 – Sports Communication
PHE 360 – Economics and Governance of Sports
PHE 370 – Sports and Society
PHE 371 – Facilities and Event Management
These are all classes that the department intends to use in a track. This change will transform the “non-teaching” track into a degree that is more marketable: graduates will be able to get jobs in several non-teaching areas of athletics. The department has faculty with the credentials to teach the classes.
Senator Jason Keeler explained that this track will prepare students to be athletic directors, sports agents, or sports managers. There are not many sports management programs. The student who takes this track will have a minor in business.
Guest Kim Sipes, Deputy Provost, asked, who’s teaching the business classes? Keeler answered, we have faculty on campus to teach them.
Guest David Shabazz, Associate Chair of Humanities and Performing Arts, pointed out that the Journalism/Mass Communications program already has an Introduction to Sports Communication class. Keeler replied that the Physical Education faculty are definitely interested in working with faculty in Mass Com/JOU.
Andries suggested a friendly amendment to exclude PHE 345: Sports Communication from the series of courses to be approved. This friendly amendment was approved by a voice vote, and a vote was called on the other four courses.
FSCC 18-19-41 Sports Management Track in Physical Education Non-Teaching Degree: This action proposes the creation of a new track - Sports Management. This creation is also a move toward a later development of creating a minor in Sports Management.
Schneller suggested postponing a vote until the PHE 345 class is approved.
Andries suggested pulling the Action Item from the Senate docket until this issue is resolved.
Keeler replied that President Brown is advocating for this track. He asked, why can’t we cross list with the JOU class? Andries replied that one course is a 300-level class and one is a 200-level class; we need to make sure they are equivalent.
A Senator asked if the faculty who are to teach these courses have the requisite qualifications.
Andries replied that the Curriculum Committee was told that they do.
Moffett pointed out that their Chair and Dean did sign off on the proposal form – they are the ones who make this judgement about faculty qualifications.
A Senator suggested that departments proposing courses should send the SACS faculty qualifications form along with the CC proposal form.
-Andries noted that a line item about faculty qualifications has not been added to the CC Course Proposal Form.
A motion was made to postpone action on FSCC 18-19-41.