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.
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.