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Sports and Recreation Management Program The Sports and Recreation Management program at FPis one of a handful of institutions that locate the major and minor within the Division of Business Administration. By doing so, we are teaching students to become leaders and managers within the industry, not coaches and teachers. Students majoring or minoring in Sports and Recreation Management take a series of six required courses along with three additional courses chosen from one of two tracks. These personal interest tracks include: Professional Sports and Recreation. Therapeutic Recreation (TR) is a third entity where we also place students. However, the TR track is not certified. These courses culminate with an internship within an area of expertise identified by each of the students. Internships and professional placement include such sites as Walt Disney World-Magic Kingdom, Top Notch Resort, Stratton Mountain, Sunday River Ski Resort, New England Patriots, New York Yankees, ESPN, Boston Celtics, the Ice Capades, NY Central Park-Wolman Ice Skating Rinks, The Balsams Resort, the Marriott Hotel and Resorts, Estes Park, Colorado, Yellowstone National Park, various PGA and LPGA Golf courses, Crotched Mountain Rehabilitation Center, The Hebrew Rehabilitation Center, Boston, MA, various community recreation centers and over 100 more additional sites. Guest lecturers frequently are invited into the classroom to support the "actual methodologies" utilized in the industry of sports and leisure. Each semester, field trips are taken to various facilities, such as the Fleet Center, Foxboro Stadium, Fenway Park, Keene Recreation, Hampshire Hills Health and Racquet Club and a Norwegian Cruise Ship, docked at the Boston Harbor, to again, accentuate reality. As of the Fall of 1996, "Lou" Gorman, past Boston Red Sox's General Manager, has been teaching and leading our Professional track by forming a Sports Management Advisory Board. Organizations that are a part of the board include: Fleet Center, Boston Red Sox, New England Patriots, New Hampshire Speed Way, Swamp Bats, and law firms that represent players (sports agents). The board is on campus at least once per semester to share ideas with the students and help to guide our curriculum toward the development of productive candidates in the field. The Career Planning and Placement office highly supports the Sports and Recreation Management major sharing ideas with the students within the classroom setting as well as in a one-on-one situation in the office. The placement office contains a library, which includes volumes of up-to-date sites for internships, in addition to job and career possibilities. If you have any questions concerning the program, you can email Dr. Bonnie
C. Black at: blackbc@franklinpierce.edu For degree requirements and course listings, consult the Franklin Pierce University Catalog |
