RESS2110 Sport management and sustainability: A project work course (5 cr)

Study level:
Advanced studies
Grading scale:
0-5
Language:
English
Responsible organisation:
Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics, Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences
Curriculum periods:
2024-2025, 2025-2026, 2026-2027, 2027-2028

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Sustainability and responsibility in sport management

Description

The course is both theoretically and practically oriented course. The course lectures introduce the contents and critical debates of sustainable development. This is followed by a practical part in which students in teams carry out a development project for a sport organization regarding their sustainability work.

Connection of Course Contents to UN Sustainable Development Goals

This course is designed to pay attention to all 17 sustainability development goals depending on the theme of the seminar and its invited speakers.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this course, student is able to:

  • Identify the necessary concepts, tools and models to understand the sustainable development in local and global context
  • Critically evaluate the relationship between sport and sustainability
  • Through practical orientation propose directions of development for the sustainability work in a selected sport(-related) organisation based on analysis conducted in that organization

Study materials

To be announced during the lecture.

Completion methods

Method 1

Description:
2nd year, autumn
Evaluation criteria:
Lectures, Project implementation and active participation in project, final report
Time of teaching:
Period 1, Period 2
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Parts of the completion methods
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Participation in teaching (5 cr)

Type:
Participation in teaching
Grading scale:
0-5
Evaluation criteria:
<p>Individual paper (50%), project work in groups (50%).</p>
Language:
English
Study methods:
Active participation in the lectures, project work in teams, writing assignment.

Teaching