Sports and Entertainment Marketing is for students with an intrest in the business/marking side of the sports and entertainment indistry. Instrustional areas include an introduction to the sports and entertainment industry as well as economics and events execution. Students will work with teams,clubs, and orginizations at West Valley to help promote events.
Students also take a trip to Seattle, Washington and tour of Qwest and Safeco Fields. They get a real view on how buisness plays its part in the world of sports. At both Qwest and Safeco students get a presentation on the different parts of buisness that are involved to make the feilds run for events and day to day.
Students will also be able to design a virtual business by creating their own football franchise. This lets them handle promotion, develop ticket pricing strategies, evaluate stadiums and city locations, control stadium operations and staffing, find sponsors and licensing deals, and more.
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To the left is an illistration of the football stadium that students have the chance to create. |
Students will be engaged as they set up their own football franchise and compete against their classmates. A teacher scoreboard shows the scores of individual students as they fight it out to see who will have the highest profit in this virtual league.
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To the right is a birds-eye view of the city that students in a team can create together while competing again other teams. |
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Students are also able to play in a team and work together. They start by picking a city to locate your franchise, manage parking and stadium operations, and select your partners to create a winning team. Students are judged on profits and how well the team does. Students are given assignments to help them better understand the simulations and what it is like to be in the position of having a franchise.