SETM 415 Research Methods in Sport & Hospitality Management

Course Description

This course examines the concepts and process of research in sport and hospitality management. Students will be introduced to issues including the logic of the scientific method, assessment of scholarly research, research design, qualitative and quantitative methodologies, and the integration of research into managerial decision making. Students will develop a discipline-specific research proposal to serve as a foundation for knowledge and practice across their careers.

Prerequisites:

SMGT 200 and SMGT 201 and SMGT 302 and SMGT 305 and SMGT 310 and SMGT 312

Rationale

The objective of this course is to help students connect research to practice. Increased demand for evidence-based practice and data-driven decision making requires managers to use research to solve problems for entities or organizations. Hence, students need to be able to identify a problem, analyze the situation, suggest a research question, gather relevant information, interpret the information, and propose a solution. To this end, students acquire applied research competence through the development of a research proposal in the field of sport management.

Textbook readings and lecture presentations/notes

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Course Requirements Checklist

After reading the Course Syllabus and Student Expectations, the student will complete the related checklist found in the Course Overview.

Discussions (2)

Discussions are collaborative learning experiences. Therefore, the student will complete two (2) Discussion in this course. The student will post one thread of at least 400 words by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Thursday of the assigned module. The student must then post two (2) replies of at least 200 words by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Monday (UG) of the assigned module. For each thread, the student must support his/her assertions with at least one scholarly citation in APA format. Each reply must incorporate at least one scholarly citation in APA format. Any sources cited must have been published within the last five years. Acceptable sources include scholarly journals, other textbooks or professional websites, etc. The student must include relevant biblical integration in the thread.

Research Proposal Draft Assignments (5)

The student will be required to complete five research drafts over the duration of the course. The instructor will assign each draft unique to the corresponding module’s content, and the draft is intended to assist the student in developing the written material for the research proposal.

Research Proposal Assignment

The research proposal is the capstone requirement for this course and will require the student to include an introduction to the problem, a review of literature that provides the theoretical and/or conceptual framework for the paper, the research questions/hypotheses, statements of significance and purpose, data collection methods, and limitations of the study.  A minimum of ten peer-reviewed sources are required and listed in APA format.

Quizzes (6)

Each quiz will cover the Reading & Study material for the assigned modules: weeks. Each quiz will be open-book/open-notes, contain multiple-choice and true/false questions, and have a 1-hour time limit.