SPORTS MANAGEMENT
Sports management is more than professional athletes and ball games.
It’s a big business full of huge budget decisions and complex negotiations
in which managers will need to draw on their knowledge of health,
fitness, business and law. Graduates of the Sports Management Pathway
may go on to organize the Super Bowl, work for the New York Yankees,
or build a facility plan for a major college or university. Other graduates,
for example, may seek to oversee and manage their local city’s youth
basketball league or recreation department.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Budding entrepreneurs can now gain and hone the skills necessary to
imagine, create and run a successful venture. In this pathway, students
will take a hands-on approach to starting a business and will have
constructed a comprehensive business plan upon completion. Students
will tackle real world challenges through experiential learning, and they
will have the opportunity to hear from successful business leaders as
well as participate in the GHC Charger Innovation Challenge, which is a
student-based competition similar to the popular TV show ‘Shark Tank.’
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Students with an interest or natural talent in design now have an opportunity
to further their skills and establish a rewarding career in the field
of graphic design. Students will be able to design and layout commercial
artwork in conjunction with advertising and marketing organizations using
artistic design both by hand and by utilizing computer software and
techniques. Graduates of the program will receive a foundation in these
skills that they will take with them into the workplace or on to a four-year
program.
HEALTH SCIENCE
A four-year program aimed to help students perform, develop, evaluate,
correlate and assure the accuracy and validity of health programs and
health information. Graduates will be able to direct and supervise health
education programs and operations and collaborate with clinicians and
the general population. Students will possess skills in problem solving,
interpretation and evaluation of health information, statistical approaches
to data evaluation, principles and practices of leadership, and
communicating health
information to all.
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