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/