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CEE 583 Physical Education Facilities and Sports Event Management

Course overview

This course focuses on the principles, guidelines, and recommendations for planning, constructing, using, and maintaining facilities for physical education and sporting activities.

Facility funding and management are key areas in the fields of educational administration and sports management. Educational institutions, such as schools and colleges, need facilities that provide a safe and pleasant environment for physical education students, sport participants, spectators, and host administrators. Safety and facility management are primary concerns when physical educators and coaches are teaching skills to their students or athletes.

At the end of the course you should have an understanding and appreciation for facility planning and management.

Course goals

Upon successful completion of this course, students will have developed knowledge and understanding of the following:

• Manage an athletic facility effectively.
• Describe how athletic facilities have evolved throughout their history.
• Define terms from the facilities and facilities management disciplines.
• Explain the role of the facility manager.
• Describe the effective communication and leadership needed in facility management.
• Describe the process of athletic facility planning, development, funding, and construction.
• Identify legal issues related to the operation and management of athletic facilities.

Textbook

Fried, G. (2010). Managing sport facilities (2nd ed.). Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.

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