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Unit Summary
Unit type
UG Coursework Unit
Credit points
12
AQF level
Level of learning
Intermediate
Former School/College
Unit aim
Develops theoretical and applied knowledge of relationships between sport, tourism and events along with a critical understanding of contemporary sport events. Through a stakeholder lens students critique sport event impacts to inform ethical and socially responsible sport event management practices.
Unit content
Topic 1: Sport, tourism, and events
Topic 2: Sport event stakeholders
Topic 3: Sport event spaces
Topic 4: Sport event participants
Topic 5: Sport event impacts and legacies
Topic 6: Business ethics and corporate social responsibility in sport events
Topic 7: Entrepreneurialism in sport event design
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
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1 | Identify the full range of stakeholder groups linked to sport events across diverse contexts | |||||||
2 | Critically discuss impacts (positive and negative) that sport events have on a diverse range of stakeholder groups | |||||||
3 | Integrate theories of business ethics and corporate social responsibility into the design of sport events | |||||||
4 | Examine contemporary trends pertaining to sport event participation to formulate entrepreneurial sport event designs |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
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Identify the full range of stakeholder groups linked to sport events across diverse contexts
- GA4:
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Critically discuss impacts (positive and negative) that sport events have on a diverse range of stakeholder groups
- GA3:
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Integrate theories of business ethics and corporate social responsibility into the design of sport events
- GA2:
- GA3:
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Examine contemporary trends pertaining to sport event participation to formulate entrepreneurial sport event designs
- GA2: