Undergraduate Catalog 2024-2025

Sport and Fitness Administration (BS)

Sport and Fitness Administration is a branch of health sciences that combines the study of the human body and foundational business concepts. Graduates provide clients with health and fitness assessments, skill training, recommendations for community health and welfare, and have the ability to create, conduct, and assess sport and fitness programming. Sport and Fitness Administrators are frequently employed in secondary school, college, or professional sports, out-patient wellness facilities, community and commercial fitness and recreation, equipment sales, and coaching. Students will also have completed the prerequisites to enter Piedmont’s Masters of Business Administration (MBA) and Health and Human Performance programs or to continue advanced studies in sports administration, coaching, or public health and certifications offered through the American College of Sports Medicine (the Health Fitness Specialist-HFS and/or Personal Training certification) and the National Strength and Conditioning Association (Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist-CSCS and/ or Certified Personal Trainer). These students are NOT eligible to take the National Athletic Trainers’ Association BOC examination. All students must also complete a 2-credit hour internship with a community partner.

Bachelor of Science Degree

 

General Education

I. Communication (9 hours)

Rhetoric and Composition

 

ENGL 1101*

           

Rhetoric and Composition

3

                     
Literature and Composition 
ENGL 1102*             Literature and Composition 3

Communication 

               

Choose course from approved list

3

II. Humanities and Fine Arts (15 hours)

Modern Languages

               

Choose sequence from approved list

6

                     

English Literature

 

 

            Choose one 2000-level English Literature course
(ENGL 2225 and ENGL 2226 may NOT be used)

3

                     

Philosophy and Religion

                Choose one PHIL or RELG course at the
1000-2000 level

3

                     

Fine Arts

 

 

           

Choose course from approved list 

 3

III. History and Social Sciences (9 hours)

World History

 

 

           

Choose course from approved list

3

Government

 

 

           

Choose course from approved list

3

                     
Social Science   PSYC 2290             Human Growth and Development 3

IV. Mathematics and Natural Sciences (15-16 hours)

                     
Mathematics    MATH 1100*             College Algebra 3
    OR                 
    MATH 1113             Precalculus 3
    OR                 
    MATH 2450             Calculus I 4
    MATH 2450L             Calculus I Lab 0
                     
Natural Science    BIOL 1101             General Biology I 3
    BIOL 1101L              General Biology I Lab 1
    BIOL 2100              Human Anatomy and Physiology I 3
    BIOL 2100L              Human Anatomy and Physiology I Lab 1
    BIOL 2110              Human Anatomy and Physiology II 3
    BIOL 2110L              Human Anatomy and Physiology II Lab 1
                     

V. Ethics (0 hours)

                     
Ethics                  Sport and Fitness Administration students
are exempt from this requirement. 
                     

VI. Institutional Requirement (1 hour)

First-Year Experience

 

*Grade of C or higher required.

 

PDMT 1101

           

Introduction to University Life and
the Liberal Arts Tradition

 

1

Total Credit Hours:46-49

Students who enter with fewer than 24 semester credit hours must satisfy the institutional requirement.

Sport and Fitness Administration Major

BUSA 1210Introduction to Microeconomics

3

BUSA 2200Principles of Marketing

3

BUSA 2700Principles of Management

3

HSCS 1101Emergency Techniques

2

HSCS 1110Introduction to Health Sciences

3

HSCS 2202Care and Prevention

3

HSCS 2210Basic Nutrition

3

HSCS 2301Health Promotion, Physical Activity, and Wellness

3

HSCS 4410Research Methodology in Health Sciences

3

HSCS 4450Health Sciences Capstone (Capstone Course)

3

HSCS 4499Internship in Health Sciences

1-6

Total Credit Hours:30-35
HSCS 4499 is a variable credit hour course. For the Sports and Fitness Administration major, at least 2 credit hours from HSCS 4499 are required.

General Electives

General Electives

17-23

Total Credit Hours:17-23

Sport and Fitness Administration Concentrations

Students must select one concentration from the following: Coaching, Sales, or Sport Management.

Total Credit Hours:18

Coaching Concentration

HSCS 2221Kinesiology and Biomechanics

3

HSCS 2321Principles of Athletic Coaching

3

HSCS 3321Fitness Assessment and Prescription

3

HSCS 3430Athletic Administration

3

HSCS 3440Sport Psychology

3

HSCS 4440Sport Nutrition

3

Sales Concentration

ACCT 2010Financial Accounting

3

ACCT 2020Managerial Accounting

3

BUSA 3250Consumer Behavior

3

BUSA 3550Organizational Behavior and Leadership Theories

3

BUSA 3700Project Management

3

BUSA 4250Sales Management and Personal Selling

3

Sport Management Concentration

ACCT 2010Financial Accounting

3

ACCT 2020Managerial Accounting

3

BUSA 2210Introduction to Macroeconomics

3

BUSA 3340Sports Economics

3

BUSA 3700Project Management

3

BUSA 4120Sports Marketing

3

Total Credit Hours: 121