COMMS 306

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Sports Media Research and Strategy

Communications College of Fine Arts and Communications

Course Description

Introduces a variety of information-gathering research strategies and techniques, including digital and social media analytics, used to help students to identify and target audiences with sports-related content.

When Taught

Fall, Winter, Spring

Fixed

3

Fixed

2

Fixed

3

Other Prerequisites

Majors only.

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Research

Learning Outcome

Students will demonstrate ability to employ various research methods to collect and analyze quantitative, digital, and social information for sports organizations.

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Ethical Research

Learning Outcome

Students will apply ethical standards to assess data and information for accuracy, effectiveness, reliability, and relevance.

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Diversity

Learning Outcome

Students will analyze sport in its diverse mediated forms, including how that information influences gender and minority communities in sports.

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Freedom of Information

Learning Outcome

Students will understand the importance of a free, open marketplace of ideas and how those freedoms shape sports mediated content.

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Quantitative Evaluation

Learning Outcome

Students will employ research techniques and to contextualize, evaluate, and organize sports data and information. Such methods include, but are not limited to, the use of digital data, social analytics, surveys, and audience participation methodologies.