COURSE: HIGHER DIPLOMA IN SPORT MANAGEMENT

The three-year course has a scientific and practical approach and equips students for better involvement in sports codes. The course is a combination of Sport Science, Management and coaching subjects. Exposure to and participation in competitions, meetings and sporting activities are included in the course.

Type: undergraduate diploma

Duration: 3 years full time

Compulsory Subjects

First year subjects:

• Sport Science


• Sport Management


• Marketing


• Fitness Studies


• Methodology of Coaching


• Child Kinetics


• Recreation


• Coaching and Refereeing


• Communication

Second year subjects:

• Sport Science


• Sport Management


• Marketing


• Fitness Studies


• End User Computing


• Intro. Accounting


• Child Kinetics


• Recreation


• Coaching and Refereeing

Third year subjects:

• Sport Science


• Sport Management


• Sport Tourism


• Fitness Studies


• Economics


• Research Methods


• Child Kinetics


• Recreation


• Coaching and Refereeing

Careers: sport manager, personal trainer, coach.

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