Marketing and Entrepreneurship

Marketing and Entrepreneurship prepares students for college and careers in marketing communications, marketing management, marketing research, merchandising, and professional sales. Marketing and Entrepreneurship consists of making socioeconomic decisions and producing goods and services to consumption. Instruction is as specific as procedures for merchandising and as general as the creativity needed to develop an effective promotion.

Sports Marketing I
Sports Marketing II
Sports Marketing I

This course is designed for students interested in sports, entertainment, and event marketing. Emphasis is placed on the following principles as they apply to the industry: branding licensing, and naming rights; business foundations; promotion; safety and security; and human relations. Skills in communications, human relations, psychology, and mathematics are reinforced in this course. Work-based learning strategies appropriate for this course include cooperative education, paid/unpaid internships, or school based enterprises. Marketing simulations, projects, teamwork, DECA leadership actives, meetings, conferences, and competitions provide many opportunities for application of instructional competencies.

Sports Marketing II

This course is designed for students interested in an advanced study of sports, entertainment, and event marketing. Emphasis is placed on the following principles as they apply to the industry: Business management, career development, facilities management, legal issues and contracts, promotion, and sponsorships. Skills in communications, human relations, mathematics, psychology, and technical writing are reinforced in this course. Work-based learning strategies appropriate for this course include cooperative education, paid/unpaid internships, or school based enterprises. Marketing simulations, projects, teamwork, DECA leadership activities, meetings, conferences, and competitions provide many opportunities for application of instructional competencies.