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Do you love sports and attending sporting events? Do you want a degree where you can foster your love of sports into a lifelong career in the sports field?
East Carolina University's BS in sports studies program allows you to study nearly every aspect of sport, from science to sociology to management. This degree helps you learn how you can integrate all the different ways that sport interacts with our culture and begin to put those principles into practice. The degree offers a broad view of the sport industry and its connection to our society. The breadth of experience you can gain in the field is outstanding. This degree program will allow you to understand the sport industry from many different angles, giving you the choice as to how you will put that into practice in a vast array of sport settings.
The BS in sports studies is a degree that can be shaped to meet your personal career goals. The program has a required minor, giving you the option to choose minor coursework that will further strengthen your skills as you go out into the working world in your chosen field. Popular minor coursework for sports studies majors includes business administration, communication, leadership studies, merchandising, psychology, and recreation and park management.
ECU Advantage
The program at East Carolina University is unique in its ability to give you the choice about the path you want to take. Along with a minor that helps further prepare you for your career aspirations, the BS in sports studies also requires a full-semester internship in your chosen field. Not only do we prepare you with the classroom knowledge of concepts and principles, but we set you in a position to put those principles into actual practice in the working environment. Our students have enjoyed success in many different areas of sport, including professional sport management, collegiate athletic administration, sport psychology, physical therapy, personal training, and strength and conditioning. The ECU sports studies program gives you the opportunity to pursue the career in sports that you really want and provides you the chance to choose the best path that will get you there.
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What You Will Study
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