This course is designed to help prepare students for an internship/practicum, utilize this experience to land future internships and ultimately a full-time job in the field and industry where each student is best suited. Students will receive training in important areas such as resume preparation, business etiquette, networking, developing a personal brand, and interview skills to give them an advantage when competing for an internship or job. Each student will also gain 35 hours of hands-on experience working game management for SCCC.
For each unit of credit, a minimum of three hours per week with one of the hours for class and two hours for studying/preparation outside of class is expected.
Prepare students to obtain a job in mid-management or marketing position, possessing the skills to make them successful employees and employers.
Outcome #2: Communicate ideas clearly and proficiently in writing, appropriately adjusting content and arrangement for varying audiences, purposes, and situations.
Outcome #3: Communicate their ideas clearly and proficiently in speaking, appropriately adjusting content and arrangement for varying audiences, purposes, and situations
Outcome #9: Exhibit workplace skills to include respect for others, teamwork competence, attendance/punctuality, decision making, conflict resolution, truthfulness/honest, positive attitude, judgment, responsibility.
By the end of the semester, students will have learned how to:
- Create a professional resume
- Create a cover letter
- Sell themselves when an opportunity presents itself
- Interview for a job
- Network effectively
- Seek out and develop a relationship with potential mentors
- Determine how they will be evaluated on the job site
- Create a dynamic portfolio
- General Sports Management hands-on experience
- General resume preparation with cover letter
- General networking skills
- The leading process
- How to adapt
- How to maintain professionalism
- On the job experience
- Project assignments
- Instructor visitations at sporting events
- Reading assignments
- Reading assignments as assigned
- Some physical work may be required (ie. picking up and moving items to and from the location, etc..)
The student will be evaluated by a combination of evaluations by the training sponsor, the instructor, and the dynamic portfolio project.
- Outcome #2: Assessed through workplace presentations, student participation, and various assigned projects.
- Outcome #3 Assessed through workplace presentations, student participation, and various assigned projects.
- Outcome #9 Assessed through workplace projects and simulations that offer cases for decision-making and group participation.
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Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, Seward County Community College will make reasonable accommodations for students with documented disabilities. If you need support or assistance because of a disability, you may be eligible for academic accommodations. Students should identify themselves to the Mental Health Counselor at 620-417-1106 or go to the Student Success Center in the Hobble Academic building, room A149.