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Create a Customized Certificate for a Unique Program Experience
The Self-Designed Graduate Certificate in Sport, offered on campus, provides graduate students with the opportunity to create a unique program of study. Candidates will collaborate with a faculty advisor to assemble relevant coursework in accordance with each student’s academic and professional goals.
Curriculum and Overview
The proposal will include a certificate theme or topic area, a selection of 12 credits or 4 courses, and a description of how the course topics are related to a set of three or more desired learning outcomes. Examples of certificates are listed below under Admission.
Graduate students can add a self-designed graduate certificate to their current degree program or pursue the certificate as a stand-alone credential. Candidates will select a SLAM faculty advisor with whom to collaborate in the development of a program proposal.
Certificate Examples:
Sport Coaching
- SLM 673 Developmental Perspectives on Youth Sport Participation
- SLM 547 Sport Pedagogy for Coaches and Practitioners
- SLM 538 Principles of Effective Coaching
- KNH 583 Advanced Motor Control and Learning
Sport Media and Marketing
- SLM 516: Sport Marketing
- SLM 636: Sport Communities and Public Relations
- IMS/MKT 519: Digital Branding
- MKT 618: Marketing Management
Facts and Stats
Additional Opportunities
International Graduate Certificate Exchange Program
The Department of Sport Leadership and Management (SLAM) is excited to offer a unique opportunity for graduate students to study abroad for one semester at Lunex International University of Health, Exercise and Sport, located in Differdange, Luxembourg. Students will earn an international graduate certificate in sport, while living in the heart of Europe.
Admission
- The Self-Designed Graduate Certificate in Sport is available to both current Miami University graduate students interested in adding the credential to their degree programs, as well as prospective graduate students seeking a stand-alone certificate.
- All candidates must receive faculty approval prior to applying.
- Interested candidates will have first co-constructed a certificate proposal with a SLAM faculty member. The proposal will be submitted to the Department of Sport Leadership and Management with an accompanying signed statement of support from the SLAM faculty member.
- Once approved by the department, current Miami degree-seeking candidates will submit a certificate application form before enrolling in any of the certificate courses. New, stand-alone prospective certificate candidates will apply for admission once they have received proprosal approval from the department.
- For questions, contact Callie Maddox, Ph.D., Director of Graduate Studies.
Admission and Funding
This is Where Your Journey to Miami University Begins
Explore what it means to be a graduate student at Miami University, where students prepare to go anywhere and everywhere. We’ll be here to help every step of the way as you prepare for college admission, enrollment, and success.
Contact Us
Graduate Admission
513-529-GRAD (4723)
[email protected]
Department of Sport Leadership and Management
Callie Batts Maddox, Ph.D., Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Sport Leadership and Management
Laws Hall 118
Oxford, OH 45056
513-529-7526
[email protected]