Centre for Professional Development and Lifelong Learning

Management Studies

Sport Policy and Development

Sport Policy and Development

Overview

Sport policy and development (TOUR 6160) seeks to provide the framework for understanding the development and management of sports within the national context; and its implications for tourism and sport development. In particular, the course considers how the administrative structures and policy agenda of various governments have supported (or not) the development of sports.

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Mode of Delivery: Face-to-Face, Online, HyFlex or Blended
 

What will I Learn?

 Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:

  • Understand sport policy as part of a broader national  policy
  • Identify the agencies responsible for sport and tourism at the national and regional level
  • Link the macro, meso and micro levels of  policy processes and analyses
  • Understand and appreciate the problematique of policy priorities
  •  Assess the relevance of sport policies in different contexts
  • Demonstrate an understanding of an integrated approach to the development of sport tourism
  • Understand the implications of and interrelationship between a sport policy and sustainable tourism development.
  • Elucidate the issues which shape policy, including historical antecedents and stakeholder groups

Who Should do this Course

Individuals who meet the entry requirements for postgraduate level training, including persons in areas such as sport marketing, sport sponsorship, sport events, sport development, sport social enterprises, sport facility management, and sport and international development, who want to be able to be able to understand sport policy as part of a broader national policy, and who want to be able to assess the relevance of sport policies in different contexts

Important Information

Semester II, 2020/2021 (Jan 2021) postgraduate modules will be delivered ‘face-to-face’, ‘online’, ‘blended’ or ‘hyflex’. See Mode of Delivery definitions below:
 
Face-to-Face
Face-to-face teaching is an instructional method where course content is taught in person, in a physical classroom environment.
 
Online: 
Online teaching is an instructional method where students and instructors connect via technology to review lectures, submit assignments and communicate with one another. No face-to-face learning occurs since lectures, assignments and readings are delivered online.
 
Blended:
Blended teaching (also known as hybrid or mixed-mode) is an instructional method where a portion of the traditional face-to-face instruction is replaced by web-based online instruction. Therefore, classes are delivered via electronic and online media as well as traditional face-to-face teaching.
 
HyFlex:
Hybrid-Flexible (also known as HyFlex teaching) integrates in-class instruction, online synchronous video sessions, or asynchronous content delivery. The instructor will deliver the class in a regular classroom, but students may attend in person, participate in the class through video conferencing, or watch a recording of the class session.

 

  • Applicants must bring all required documentation to the Department of Management Studies, Graduate Section, for their application to be processed.
  • Individuals applying for postgraduate modules, whose native language is not English, must take tests,  to demonstrate English Language proficiency prior to registration, as identified in the Manual of Procedures re: Regulations for Graduate Diplomas and Degrees (Sec. 1, Para. 5).

At a Glance

  • Admissions Term: 2024/2025 Semester II
  • Registration: TBA
  • Date: Semester 2 (January to May)
  • Time: TBA
  • Duration: 12 Weeks (36 hours)
  • Certificate Awarded: Postgraduate Professional Development Certificate of Competence
  • Course Code: TOUR 6160
  • Capacity: 10
  • Cost: BDS $2,200 (US $1,100) {with assessment} ; BDS $1,870 (US $935) {without assessment}
For entry into this course, applicants must have at least an undergraduate degree, or five (5) years relevant work experience. Applicants may also be asked to provide an up-to-date Curriculum Vitae.

There will be a series of lectures which will establish the key theories, concepts, issues and practices involved in sport policy and development.  These lectures will be supplemented by tutorials, guest lectures and other additional activities aimed at facilitating more interactive, small group discussions in which students will be expected to explore and critically analyse in greater detail the information obtained in the lectures, drawing sometimes on case studies and on their own life and/or work experiences in tourism.  This course adopts a very student centred approach and in order to benefit from this course it is essential that there is a great deal of preparation and participation by students.

Javier Reid