Do you dream of a career working with your favourite team or sport? Do you have a passion to change the lives of others through building confidence and skills? Are you a team player? These are but a few reasons for you to consider the Sports & Recreation
Management program at Lambton College where you prepare for a career where you can make a difference.
The program offers graduates a robust multi-disciplinary approach to the diverse industry that is sports and recreation management. Graduates gain business acumen through a sports and recreation lens. Graduates are prepared to identify, plan, and implement
successful recreational activity programs for all ages and abilities. Graduates are able to provide leadership to health and fitness initiatives and wellness programs. This three-pronged approach to the curriculum ensures graduates are prepared for
careers in the business of sport and recreation as well as the health and fitness industry.
The curriculum of this three-year advanced diploma has experiential learning opportunities integrated throughout including field placement, industry experiences, field trips, and service learning. Our students are at the forefront of providing leadership
for our industry partners including the Sarnia Sting of the Ontario Hockey League who are located on campus.
Leadership, teamwork, project management, research, information technology, marketing, time management, and communication are but a few skills employers in this industry are looking for when hiring. Our graduates are highly sought because they are industry
ready.
Experiential Learning
Students in the Sports & Recreation Management program have a number of opportunities to gain real-world experience throughout the course curriculum. These experiences include:
- Organizing events throughout the year – students from all three years of the program contribute in some aspect to the organization of these events creating varied experiences and team building opportunities
- Participating in learning experiences built right into the core courses – in the 2021-2022 school year, students were running college wide sporting events and a city wide scavenger hunt, hosting all-star skills competitions, creating social content for the OHL, building activity plans and counselling real clients, and even making appearances on Sportsnet
- Collaborating with community partners – one example is Tourism Sarnia Lambton – as part of this collaboration, students volunteered for events, produced social media posts, and were exposed to working on event bids
- Organizing virtual speaker series’ - Speakers included David Amber, Hockey Night in Canada & NHL Host on Sportsnet, Darren Dreger from TSN, Tara Slone from Sportsnet and host of Top of her Game and Megan Chayka co-founder of Stathletes
Recess - Focus on Mental Health
Recess is a program that began as a way for the Sports & Recreation Management program to recognize the importance of physical activity and social engagement in the maintenance of good mental health. As such, intentional opportunities for students in the program to come out for recess were created. Students and faculty enjoy this optional, one hour per week to participate in a variety of activities designed to promote laughter, comradery, and to network.
We often hear back from students about how large a role recess played in their success in the Sports & Recreation Management program.
Still looking for more? Lambton’s Sports & Recreation Management program has many attractive university pathway agreements. Our program is held in high esteem by the University of Windsor who’s Bachelor of Human Kinetics - Sports Management and Leadership degree is
recognized as one of the best in the world. Qualified graduates are able to earn this university credential with only two additional years of study.
Fall 2023 Delivery Format
Term 1 classes will be delivered in person and students will be required to be on campus for the duration of the term. The 2023 Fall term begins on September 6. Students must be on campus to join in-person classes starting September 6, 2023. No exceptions will be made.
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Admission Requirements
O.S.S.D. or equivalent with:
The admissions process is competitive and meeting the minimum academic requirements does not guarantee admission.
Lambton College reserves the right to alter information including admission requirements and to cancel at any time a program or course; to change the location and/or term in which a program or course is offered; to change the program curriculum as necessary
to meet current competencies or changes in the job market; to change the pathways third-party certification bodies; or to withdraw an offer of admission both prior to and after its acceptance by an applicant or student because of insufficient applications
or registrations or over-acceptance of offers of admission. In the event Lambton College exercises such a right, Lambton College’s sole liability will be the return of monies paid by the applicant or student to Lambton College.
English Language Proficiency Requirements
Applicants must demonstrate language proficiency by submitting one of the following scores:
- IELTS of 6.0;
- TOEFL iBT 69; or
- Passed Lambton Institute of English placement test.
Please Note: IELTS is the only proficiency score accepted by the Study Direct Stream (SDS) program. Additional country-specific requirements may also be applicable.
Meeting the minimum English requirements does not guarantee admission. Students with higher English proficiency scores will receive priority in the admission assessment process.
Technology Requirements
In order to keep pace with the requirements of each and every course in your program, it is mandatory to own a reliable laptop to complete tests and assignments.
Course List
SRM-1003: Introduction to Sport and Recreation Management
Students are introduced to various topics essential to becoming professionals in the Sports and Recreation Management industry and the career opportunities available. The importance of leadership, critical thinking, professionalism, recognition of personal strengths, public speaking and the structure of sport organizations are explored. Throughout the course, students engage with industry professionals using the Clubhouse platform and also volunteer with local industry partners to assist in building their personal portfolio. May 11 2023 10:43 AM Kimberley A. Callaghan
SRM-1013: Sports Marketing
This course provides students with an understanding of the fundamental concepts of marketing and how they pertain to sport including strategic marketing management, marketing mix, assessing the marketing environment, the role of research, segmentation, sponsorship, and consumer behaviour. Utilizing this knowledge, students create marketing materials for campus and community events that are specific to target audience.
SRM-2113: Current Concepts in Health and Wellness
In this course students investigate, review and utilize health promotion strategies for making healthy, rational, lifestyle choices in order to maintain or improve personal health. Students explore the bio - psycho - social processes to keep well and gain knowledge of interventions that encourage wellness, promote activity, energy and life, and empowerment.
BUS-1234: Computer Applications for Business
Strong computer skills are essential to finding employment in management and administration. This course provides students with resources and guidance to develop skills in Microsoft Office applications. While the focus will be spent learning and applying document processing, presentation and extra time on spreadsheet management tools, students will also develop skills in time management, self-discipline, and attention to detail. Students will also have an opportunity to improve their ability to read and follow written instructions. Computer Applications for Business is a course delivered using practical hands-on applications and comprises additional online skills assessment and training tools purposefully designed to provide flexibility in learning. This course further prepares students to apply these professional business application skills, with enhanced emphasis on spreadsheet management as they continue and expand in their program areas of study.
COM-1013: Critical Thinking and Writing
In this writing course, students respond to current issues and news articles via various styles of paragraphs and essays. Students strive for clarity of message and diplomatic expression of opinion based on fact. Students practice thinking critically and organize and hone their writing to ensure clarity and correctness in their messages. Critical Thinking and Writing lays the foundation for a subsequent research-writing course.
SRM-2303: Recreation Programming
In this course students review the process of recreation programming and gain an appreciation for the importance of aligning programming with organizational mission, vision, and values. Through practical application, students explore each step of the process including an organizational program audit, program prioritization and planning, budgeting, scheduling, promotion and evaluation. Students organize and oversee drop-in sessions throughout the semester.
MKT-1103: Social Media Marketing
This course explores online marketing tools and tactics, such as social media, email, digital advertising and content marketing, that businesses can use to build a profitable relationship with their customers. Students engage in simulated social media, email and digital advertising campaigns to gain a better understanding of how to use these tools in their marketing efforts. Along with learning about digital and social media marketing, students learn general principles of marketing that are key for every business, regardless of industry or size: identifying who your customers are; understanding what needs they have that you are uniquely able to serve; creating a brand voice that speaks to them; identifying who your competitors are; deciding how to differentiate your offering from theirs; and creating a plan for engaging customers across social media and digital advertising platforms.
COM-2013: Communications for Business
This course provides students with the skills required for professional, written, and oral communications essential to business success and subsequent courses. Students will develop database and internet research skills; prepare professional written business communication; and create, practice and deliver professional oral presentations. Students will research and document borrowed information in a business report and will demonstrate critical reading and thinking skills.
SRM-2603: Fundraising and Sport Sponsorship
Sponsorship and fundraising play an important role in the success of sport in today's society. Students gain an appreciation for the unique challenges generating revenue through fundraising and sponsorship for sport. Students explore how marketing concepts are integrated to meet the specific needs of sponsors and fundraising campaigns and the importance of building and maintaining relationships.
SRM-5103: Training Principles
This course will develop the student's knowledge of exercise prescription and provide the student with the opportunity to develop practical skills through the design and delivery of training sessions for the class, existing physical and health education classes, and members of the college community.
JSS-1001: Job Search and Success
This course is designed to give the student an understanding of how to conduct a job search and how to succeed in the work place. This includes self-reflection, effectively designing a cover letter and resume, online job searches utilizing social media, behavioural based interviewing as well as marketing oneself effectively in a job interview. Job safety, successful work strategies and harassment and discrimination plan of action is also discussed.
GED-XXX3: General Education Elective
SRM-5003: Facilities Management
This course introduces students to the macro and micro aspects of managing sport and recreation facilities. Beginning with a focus on the evolution of sport and recreation facilities students will explore the impact such facilities have on society. Integrating theory with practical opportunities and facility tours, students explore facility design concepts, day-to-day operations, physical and human resource management, and activity and event programming.
SRM-3203: Tournaments and League Management
Through this course, students integrate the theoretical knowledge of tournament and league formatting and scheduling with practical experience by organizing, operating and evaluating their own tournaments and leagues. The reasons for matching the level of participation with individual characteristics including ability, age and level of competitiveness are discussed. The importance of policies, regulations, tiebreakers and rules are explored.
SRM-3113: Seasonal Recreation
Now more than ever people of all ages are seeking out recreational activities to help them regulate their physical and mental well-being. This course is designed to equip students with the tools required to design, deliver, and manage recreational activities. The delivery of this course is constructed to expose students to the comprehensive picture of recreational programming in a variety of sectors including public, non-profit, private, and commercial. Basic rules, etiquette, and skills as well as an overview of equipment selection and surface maintenance required to run recreational sports are examined. Ultimately, with the expertise of guest speakers as well as other industry-recognized resources, student groups deliver a recreational sport activity that meets all the guidelines and best practices set out by the recreation and leisure industry. Since this course uses aspects of the sport education delivery model, students are expected to take an active role in the recreational sport experience by serving in varied and realistic roles that we see in authentic recreational sport settings.
ACC-3083: Introduction to Managerial Accounting
The managerial accounting course provides students with skills to become highly effective in environments where quick decisions are required. Students learn to use financial information to make quick strategic decisions including how to use data to evaluate the effectiveness of current operations. Learning to maximize the profitability of operations, students prepare and interpret financial statements and key performance indicators that drive decision making. Topics covered in this course include cost management, analysis of financial performance, relevant costing techniques, budgetary planning and control for a business enterprise.
MKT-3213: Business Intelligence I
This course introduces students to the constantly expanding world of secondary data research. This is the first of two research courses designed to develop research techniques and skills that meet the needs of today's business. Students develop their research technology skills by learning how to locate, evaluate, and qualify high-quality data. Students strengthen their ability critically interpret and evaluate the data collected and suggest potential trends and implications. An important focus of the course is learning to create appropriate tables, graphs, and infographics that aid in understanding and visualizing the data. Through a series of research assignments, students learn to craft high-quality written reports, presentations and infographics with accurate references and citations. Throughout the course, students are exposed to a wide variety of government, business, and economic information expanding their knowledge of the dynamic business environment.
GED-XXX3: General Education Elective
SRM-5013: Special Events Management
Students examine various special events and the methods for achieving event goals. Utilizing principles of event management, students gain experience through engagement in the planning, organizing and delivery of events for various community partners. In groups, students plan, organize and deliver their own Special Event. Throughout the course, students volunteer at two Special Events. Students are introduced to Sport Tourism Canada and its current policies and practices for bidding and hosting events in Canada.
SRM-6203: Coaching Theories and Principles
The Coaching Course will provide theory and practical experiences in coaching enabling the student to teach others physical skills and activities that can be used throughout a person's life. This course will cover the essential principles of coaching including planning, sport safety, skills analysis, communication, and ethics. Using a combination of coaching assignments, lectures, readings, and live assessments of skills, students will be prepared to pursue coaching opportunities in various community and recreation sport settings.
FHP-2003: Risk Management
In this course, students explore the legal concepts of negligence and liability and relative legislation, regulations, standards, and policies affecting the provision, safety, cleanliness, and maintenance of facilities. Students are introduced to methods of identifying risk, assist in designing strategies to prevent or minimize risk, and apply risk management strategies.
GED-XXX3: General Education Elective
MKT-3403: Selling
This course is designed to provide students with an introduction to professional selling and the skills required to find success in relationship building and sales. Students are introduced to the many career alternatives available as well as the day-to-day expectations of a successful salesperson. The focus is to assist students develop their personal brand and strengthen their presentation, communication, and negotiation skills through role-playing, simulations, and applied learning exercises. Both traditional and digital prospecting methods are explored, along with the application of effective discovery, proposal creation, and problem resolution strategies, all in support of creating a customer relationship built on trust. Topics include goal setting, planning, time management, sales analytics, key performance indicator analysis, and customer relationship building. Students apply their learning in a simulated, professional business-to-business sales environment.
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FHP-3103: Health Promotion (online)
Using a best practices approach, students are introduced to and actively involved in planning, organizing, delivering and evaluating health promotion programs, campaigns and events.
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CPL-1003: Work Term - Part-Time (12 hrs/wk)
Co-operative education provides students with the opportunity to apply classroom learning to the workplace, undertake career sampling and gain valuable work experience that may assist students in leveraging employment after graduation. For further information regarding co-op, please refer to: https://www.lambtoncollege.ca/co-op_and_career/
SRM-5703: Sport Research and Analytics
This course introduces to the field of sport analytics and the decision-making process teams and leagues face on a day-to-day basis. Students engage in teamwork to explore and complete sport research while examining topics including player performance measurement, in-game decision-making, and player selection/roster construction. Students explore tactics for building effective teams while emphasizing the importance of equity, diversity, and inclusion.
SRM-5503: Outdoor Pursuits
This multi-faceted course is designed to provide students with opportunities to develop and apply skills including leadership, teamwork, planning, preparation, problem solving, and many other highly sought-after transferrable skills. These skills are acquired through participation in experiential outdoor activities designed to physically, mentally, socially, and spiritually challenge students. Students discover the importance of natural resources, opportunities to use them for personal exploration and development, and develop an appreciation for their value to the environment, issues related to conservation and sustainability, use for educational purposes, and use for recreational and economic benefit.
SRM-5303: Sports Event Capstone Project I
This course is designed to integrate the concepts and skills students have obtained throughout the Sports and Recreation Management Program. As the first of two capstone courses, emphasis is placed on the planning stages for a college community-based sport league and/or a major tournament. Emphasis is placed on the working within the parameters of the target partner groups' goals, budget, and logistics. Students work their way through all the industry recognized steps for planning leagues and multiday tournaments. Upon course completion, students will have a complete tournament and/or league packaged plan that is delivery ready.
ESA-3004: Video/Audio Production
Video and audio production have become highly desirable skills in our modern, media driven world and especially so for aspiring professionals in the Esports industry. In this course, students explore the impact of media in our modern world, gain an appreciation for and develop production skills that demonstrate the use of flow in different mediums, and explore factors that can be manipulated to alter audio and video productions. Students are introduced to post-production techniques and will have the opportunity to develop and demonstrate their skills through the completion of a term project.
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TRE-1033: Foundations of Therapeutic Recreation
This course provides an in-depth study of the scope of therapeutic recreation. Students study the historical and philosophical foundations of the professions. The role of therapeutic recreation professionals in the spectrum of health care and human service settings serving clients with a variety of disabilities is explored. A review of the various definitions used by each of the professional TR organizations, a variety of service models of practice as well as the Therapeutic Recreation process is introduced. Students develop an appreciation of the needs of people with different abilities and the barriers to recreation that they face. There is also a focus on approaches to integration within the community and the issues related to this profession. Students are introduced to ethics in the profession of Therapeutic Recreation.
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PHR-1093: Anatomy and Physiology
This course is designed to provide pertinent information about the human body and how it functions. The study is concentrated on medical terminology, cells, tissues, organs, and systems and how the systems work together for human survival.
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TRE-3303: Leisure and Aging
Students will develop their knowledge of various issues related to aging including the aging process, theories on aging, ageism, implications of an aging Canadian society, and the role of recreational and leisure activity in the successful aging process. Included in this will be an exploration of various physical and cognitive ailments and disease processes commonly found in the elderly. With this knowledge, students will develop a variety of recreational and leisure programs that focus on physical, cognitive, and psychosocial elements.
MKT-3103: Consumer Behaviour and Trends
Consumer behaviour is one of the most exciting areas in the study of marketing. Every day, a variety of media inform, persuade, and influence our purchase decision. These media compete with other stimuli for our attention and our hard-earned money. In studying consumer behaviour, students learn how marketers identify and work with these sources of influence, how we think and how we process information. Students also learn how their relationships with others and their dreams and aspirations help shape their product choices and purchase decisions. The evolving topic of sustainable consumption is discussed as brand accountability, legislation and governance continue to set the direction for more purposeful practices.
SRM-5403: Field Study in Sport Management
This course is designed to provide students with opportunities to engage in tours of high profile sport and recreation facilities while networking with industry experts in a variety of career-related areas, including team management, corporate sales and sponsorship, facility operations, and sport organization management, while discovering employment opportunities available to them in the sport industry. Depending on the locations to be explored, students may also gain insight into cultural practices, political and economic influences related to sport, and local attractions.
SRM-2503: Sport in Society
Sports are institutional, social, and cultural practices, created and sustained by people as they interact with others to organize and make sense of their lives. Sports not only reflect aspects of society but they also play a unique role in producing, reproducing and transforming society. Historical variations in the way sports are organized and viewed by society are related to issues of power and authority at particular points in time. Using sociological theoretical frameworks offers one the opportunity to see aspects of sports that are often hidden from view when studying the place and role of sport in society. Topics explored in this course include (but are not limited to) social theories, history of sport sociology, social inequalities, violence and social deviance, politics, globalization and economics, media, bioethics, religion and socialization.
FHP-1203: Physical Literacy
This course introduces students to current concepts of physical literacy as they are being defined in Canadian sport, recreation and education. Students examine physical literacy concepts within the Provincial Physical and Health Education Curriculum, the Canadian Sport for Life model, as well as the Long Term Athletic Development model. Students create effective presentations to act as catalysts for change in the way Canadians view physical literacy. Emphasis is placed on the planning, delivery and assessment of fundamental movement skills acquisition plans based on the models reviewed in the course.
SRM-6303: Sports Event Capstone Project II
This course has been designed to enable students to deliver a college community-based sports league and or major tournament. As the second of two capstone courses, emphasis is placed on the delivery and management of a sports league and or major tournament. Students expand on their learning observations and specific feedback from related courses within the program and apply those lessons within the management of their event. A complete assessment, including recommendations for the future deliveries is completed by the students, at the end of the event. Upon course completion students will have a portfolio of work demonstrating the various strategies implemented during the running a sporting event.
PHL-1253: Ethical Leadership and Critical Decision Making
This interdisciplinary course combines insights from the field of business with social psychology and applied ethics to challenge students with an introspective look at some of today's most important ethical dilemmas. Students in PHL-1253 learn that the ethical standards employed by businesses and corporations ultimately concern the quality of human behaviours in those organizations. Human behaviour evolves from many influences: our past relationships, the ways we think and feel, how we respond to pressures in various social contexts, and how we deliberate in our daily thoughts and actions. Each of these influences is intimately involved with the quality of our ethical decision making.
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MKT-3353: Integrated Marketing Communications
In today's marketing world, there are more advertising contact points and specialized media competing for consumer's attention than ever before. To effectively break through the clutter, companies need to use a well-coordinated approach to selecting different promotional methods to differentiate their communication and present a consistent message to target audiences. This course introduces students to the concept of integrated marketing communications (IMC); a strategic planning process that helps companies identify the most appropriate and effective methods for communicating and building relationships with consumers. Students will learn the essential components of an IMC plan, including how to integrate advertising, sales promotions, public relations, direct marketing and digital media to maximize the impact of communications. Students will utilize this knowledge to build their own comprehensive marketing communications plan for a selected product or service.
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SCU-1603: Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship
FUNdamentals of Entrepreneurship is a gamified business simulation where students assume the role of an entrepreneur pursuing their passion of selling clothing online and in their retail store. The player subcribes to the guidance of a business coach and will build a successful venture in a virtual neighbourhood. The player can upgrade their store and operations by completed learning modules and testing. Through self-paced gameplay, students learn important concepts from Finance, Human Resources, Marketing, Health and Safety, Risk Management and more. In the process, they acquire the skills to effectively run a company as they upgrade their operation by completing learning modules and quizzes. Each student has a unique playing experience via ingame customizations, such as avatar creation, and store design. All content is contained within the game - no textbook is required. Students who have successfully completed MAN-1183 are not eligible to take this course.
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CPL-2003: Work Term - Part-Time II (12 hrs/wk)
Co-operative education provides students with the opportunity to apply classroom learning to the workplace, undertake career sampling and gain valuable work experience that may assist students in leveraging employment after graduation. For further information regarding co-op, please refer to: https://www.lambtoncollege.ca/co-op_and_career/
Program Maps
Students are required to follow their prescribed program map and are not allowed to take unscheduled breaks for any reason.
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Employment Opportunities
For over 20 years, our graduates have pursued successful careers in the public, private, and commercial sectors of the sport and recreation industry as facility and program managers, sports marketing and sales representatives, athletic directors, league administrators, special event managers, fitness and recreation program leaders, equipment and sporting goods representatives, health promoters, educators, and entrepreneurs.