CSCMEMBER SHOWCASE

Teaching

So far at Brock, I have been fortunate to teach SPMA 1P93 – Diversity and Inclusion in Sport Management, 1P94 –Professional Engagement for the Sport Industry, 2P06 – Sport Policy, 3P05 –Management Concepts in Non-profit Sport Organizations, and 4P97 –Advanced Analysis of the Sport Industry: Hockey.

Each of these courses have been an exciting opportunity for me, and I am fond of each for separate reasons. For some courses, it gives me the chance to have challenging discussions and allow students to consider sport from different perspectives.

Others, like 3P05 for instance, allow students to be directly involved with the sporting community and forge lasting connections in the sport industry.

n developing the 3P05 course I saw a great deal of wasted potential as we only ocused on the conceptual side of nonprofit sports. I felt that by having students work directly with non-profits hey could gain valuable first-hand experience in a variety of areas that would help build skills for the future.

For instance, with the North American ndigenous Games, students are learning about how the a non-profit governance model works. They’re meeting the people that fill the roles of Vice President, Secretary, Director, and earning that those people are professionals in other fields. They’re earning these people are extremely committed, extremely capable and I hink delivering the course in this way is a great deal of a lot more interesting han listening to me blabber for three hours a week.

Partnering with the CSC for this course seemed like a natural fit because they work with so many non-profits it allows or students to assist many sport organizations at once.