About

Do you love sports and attending sporting events? Do you want a degree where you can foster your love of sports into a lifelong career in the sports field?

East Carolina University's BS in sports studies program allows you to study nearly every aspect of sport, from science to sociology to management. This degree helps you learn how you can integrate all the different ways that sport interacts with our culture and begin to put those principles into practice. The degree offers a broad view of the sport industry and its connection to our society. The breadth of experience you can gain in the field is outstanding. This degree program will allow you to understand the sport industry from many different angles, giving you the choice as to how you will put that into practice in a vast array of sport settings.

The BS in sports studies is a degree that can be shaped to meet your personal career goals. The program has a required minor, giving you the option to choose minor coursework that will further strengthen your skills as you go out into the working world in your chosen field. Popular minor coursework for sports studies majors includes business administration, communication, leadership studies, merchandising, psychology, and recreation and park management.

ECU Advantage

The program at East Carolina University is unique in its ability to give you the choice about the path you want to take. Along with a minor that helps further prepare you for your career aspirations, the BS in sports studies also requires a full-semester internship in your chosen field. Not only do we prepare you with the classroom knowledge of concepts and principles, but we set you in a position to put those principles into actual practice in the working environment. Our students have enjoyed success in many different areas of sport, including professional sport management, collegiate athletic administration, sport psychology, physical therapy, personal training, and strength and conditioning. The ECU sports studies program gives you the opportunity to pursue the career in sports that you really want and provides you the chance to choose the best path that will get you there.

What You Will Study

This program is currently no longer accepting students. Please contact the program coordinator if you have questions. 

Program Coordinator: Andrea Buenano (151 Minges Coliseum; 252-328-0004; buenanoa22@ecu.edu)

The Sports Studies, BS program provides the competencies and knowledge for students to pursue a variety of sport-related careers. A minimum cumulative 2.0 GPA and 32 s.h. of general education coursework are required for admission to the program. A minimum grade of C- (1.7) is needed in all required KINE courses for successful completion of the degree. The degree requires the student to declare an approved minor.

The degree requires a minimum of 120 s.h. as follows:

1. General education requirements including those listed below - 40 s.h.

(For information about courses that carry general education credit view the General Education Program section.)

  • COMM 2020 - Fundamentals of Speech Communication OR
  • COMM 2410 - Public Speaking

  • MATH 1065 - College Algebra OR
  • PHIL 1110 - Introduction to Philosophy OR
  • PHIL 1175 - Introduction to Ethics OR
  • PHIL 1176 - Introduction to Social and Political Philosophy OR
  • PHIL 1180 - Introduction to Critical Reasoning OR
  • PHIL 2274 - Business Ethics

  • PHYS 1250 - General Physics I
  • PHYS 1251 - General Physics Laboratory I
  • PSYC 1000 - Introductory Psychology
  • RCSC 2601 - Leisure in Society
2. Core - 44 s.h.
  • KINE 2003 - Introduction to Sports Studies
  • KINE 2202 - Motor Learning and Performance
  • KINE 2850 - Structural Kinesiology
  • KINE 3109 - Sport Analytics

  • KINE 3300 - Applied Sports Psychology
    • OR
  • KINE 3400 - Sport Event Management

  • KINE 3301 - Physical Education and Sport in Modern Society
  • KINE 3600 - Coaching Theories

  • KINE 3805 - Physiology of Exercise
    • OR
  • KINE 3850 - Introduction to Biomechanics

  • KINE 4150 - Sport for Development
    • OR
  • KINE 4301 - Comparative Sport and Physical Education: International Aspects

  • KINE 4300 - Program Development and Management in Physical Education and Sports
  • KINE 4333 - Sport and Fitness Marketing

  • KINE 4700 - Internship in Sports Studies
    • OR
  • KINE 4710 - Field Experience in Sports Studies I AND
  • KINE 4720 - Field Experience in Sports Studies II

  • KINE 4701 - Professional Seminar for Sports Studies
3. Cognates - 14 s.h.
  • BIOL 1050 - General Biology
  • BIOL 1051 - General Biology Laboratory
    • OR
  • BIOL 1100 - Principles of Biology I
  • BIOL 1101 - Principles of Biology Laboratory I
    • OR
  • BIOL 1150 - Principles of Biology: A Human Approach
  • BIOL 1151 - Principles of Biology: A Human Approach Discussion

  • BIOL 2130 - Survey of Human Physiology and Anatomy

  • BITE 2112 - Introduction to Information Processing Technology OR
  • KINE 2050 - Computer Applications in Exercise and Sport Science OR
  • KINE 4003 - Special Topics in Exercise and Sport Science OR
  • MIS 2223 - Introduction to Computers

  • COMM 3520 - Sports Media Survey
    • OR
  • KINE 4003
4. Approved minor - 18 s.h.
    5. General electives to complete requirements for graduation.
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