Title: Syllabus
Course: Sports, Entertainment, and Event Management

Copyright: 2025

Virginia Assignment Code: 8177

Suggested Grade Level: 11, 12

Duration: 36 weeks

Hours: 140

Credits: 1

Prerequisites: None

CTSO: DECA

Course Description:

Students will build on prior knowledge of sports, entertainment, and event marketing. This course focuses on the principles of management, research, and planning supported by financial, economic, ethical, and legal concepts. Students will leverage skills learned to plan and execute an event and develop a career plan.
Contextual instruction and student participation in co-curricular career and technical student organization (CTSO) activities will develop leadership, interpersonal, and career skills. High-quality work-based learning (HQWBL) will provide experiential learning opportunities related to students' career goals and/or interests, integrated with instruction, and performed in partnership with local businesses and organizations.

Credentials, Course Sequences, and Career Clusters/Pathways can be found here:

https://www.cteresource.org/career-clusters/hospitality-tourism/sports-and-entertainment-management/