SPC 2060 - Radio/TV Sports Broadcasting - 3 credits

Alternate Spring Semesters

Through lectures and projects, students will learn the skills necessary to break into the competitive field of sports broadcasting, particularly radio and television, but also in the growing area of web broad casts. Topics include: sports play-by-play and analysis, sports reporting, TV sports anchoring and sports talk radio. Students will be required to have a tape recorder for some projects.

Prerequisite: COM 1010 or sophomore standing.

SPC 2390 - Writing About Sports - 3 credits

Fall and Spring Semesters

Provides the skills and practice in writing sports journalism.

This course meets the General Education Reading/Writing Enhancement requirement.

Prerequisites: Six (6) credits of Writing/English at the 1000-level or COM 2900.

SPC 2748 - The Business of Sports Production - 3 credits

Offered periodically within a three-year academic cycle

This course will provide students a look at the business of developing, creating and executing sports programming. It will include an analysis of how sports programming is designed, marketed, and sold to a network, developed from sold concept to final product in the production stage, then sponsored and promoted to create a revenue generating business for its partners.

SPC 3651 - Sports and Media - 3 credits

Alternate Years

Students will critically examine the historical and evolving relationship between sports and the media in American society, including its influence on race, gender, violence, celebrity, entertainment and business. From the Tweets of Chad Johnson to the news coverage that helped integrate professional baseball, students will explore how the media has changed the way sports are consumed, celebrated and understood.

Prerequisite: Any one of the following: SPC 2390, COM 2900, MRKT 2520, or BUS 2264.