Legal and Ethical in Issues Sport

This course is dually designed to assist students in self-evaluating and developing their moral and ethical reasoning skills and also to educate and prepare students to have a base knowledge of the legal situations they will have to face as they relate to the field of sport and risk management. Special consideration will be given to both the macro and micro ethical concepts of competition and fair play, doping, and genetic enhancement in sport, gender, and sexual equality, and issues in the social ethics of sport. Contemporary case studies examining personal, social, and organizational examples of application of legal and ethical principles will be utilized. This course contains a field-based service-learning component.