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Unit Synopsis
This unit is designed to provide you with the knowledge and practical skills involved in the organisation and management of exercise and sport organisations in an era of constant change and globalization. The learning tasks will help you develop your entrepreneurship, communication and social marketing skills through the development of a sport business plan that you will pitch at an online live presentation.
Details
| Level | Undergraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 2 |
| Credit Points | 6 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 4 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Pre-requisite: ESSC11003 Skill Acquisition and Movement Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework). |
| Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
| Residential School | No Residential School |
Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2019
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Assessment Tasks
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Written Assessment | 50% |
| 2. Group Work | 20% |
| 3. Presentation | 30% |
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).
Past Exams
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Term 1 - 2020 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 4.00 (on a 5 point Likert scale), based on a 53.85% response rate.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Source: Unit evaluation
Students valued the ability to interact with other students and be able to compare work and ideas through the online peer-assessment workshops.
The online peer-assessment workshops will continue.
The online peer-assessment workshops were continued.
Source: Self-reflection
Some students found the social innovation aspect of the sport business pitch challenging.
More examples of socially innovative business ideas relevant to the professional context of the students will be provided on the unit Moodle website.
Example sport business plan and ideas were provided on the unit Moodle site.
Source: Unit evaluation
Students felt some of the weekly lectures were not directly related to the assessment tasks.
Lecture content will be reviewed to ensure its relevance to the assessment tasks and learning outcomes.
All lectures were revised and updated with fresh content.
Source: Unit evaluation.
Students thought the online peer-assessment workshops were an effective way of learning concepts.
The online peer-assessment workshops will continue.
In Progress
Source: Unit evaluation, verbal feedback.
Students found the animated and short online lecture series brilliant, efficient, engaging and informative that showed enthusiasm and passion of the unit coordinator for the subject.
Online short lecture style and delivery method will continue.
In Progress
Source: E-mail communication.
Some students found navigating through the submission process of the online workshops difficult due to the different structure of the workshops compared to traditional assessment tasks on Moodle.
Learning and teaching services will be consulted to develop a video that shows how the workshop submission process works from the lens of a student.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Adapt principles of strategic management in an authentic business context in the sport or fitness industry.
- Analyse the application of management principles, code of ethics and risk management within exercise and sport organisations.
- Demonstrate the ability to apply evidence based reasoning to meet demand in the sport or fitness industry.
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment | • | ||
| 2 - Group Work | • | ||
| 3 - Presentation | • | ||
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1 - Communication | • | • | |
| 2 - Problem Solving | • | • | • |
| 3 - Critical Thinking | • | • | • |
| 4 - Information Literacy | • | • | • |
| 5 - Team Work | • | • | |
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | • | ||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | • | ||
| 8 - Ethical practice | • | • | |
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | |
| 3 - Presentation | • | • | • | • | |||||||
| 1 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • | • | |||||
| 2 - Group Work | • | • | • | ||||||||