Dual Degrees

Doctor of Jurisprudence/Master of Science in Sport Management

Purpose and Background

The School of Law and the Department of Kinesiology & Sport Management, in association with the Graduate School, offers a dual-degree program that enables a student to earn both the Doctor of Jurisprudence (JD) and Master of Science (MS) in Sport Management degrees in three to four years of academic work. This dual-degree program may be particularly beneficial to students in becoming athletic directors or senior administrators of collegiate or professional sport programs as well as those who wish to represent athletes as sport agents.

Structure of the Program

Both degrees will be awarded on completion of 99 semester credit hours (78 semester credit hours of law courses and 21 semester credit hours of sport management courses). This is made possible by allowing 9 semester credit hours of approved law courses to transfer as electives toward the MS and 12 semester credit hours of approved sport management courses to transfer as electives toward the JD. These transfers to the JD are of semester credit hours, not grades. Therefore, graduate course work will not be computed in a student's Law School grade point average and class ranking.

Interested students must apply for the program no later than their third semester in law school. The first year of study consists entirely of law courses. During the second and third years, the remaining required law courses are to be completed together with selected law electives and an appropriate number of graduate sport management courses. Students who have earned more than 12 semester credit hours (excluding leveling course work) before matriculation to the Law School are ineligible for the JD/MS dual-degree program.

Students must meet the admission requirements for both the School of Law and the Graduate School. In no case will a student be permitted to enter the dual-degree program if the student has not been accepted to the MS part of the program by the end of the student's fourth semester in law school.

MS in Sport Management

Required Courses (6 semester credit hours)

These 6 semester credit hours will transfer to the JD.

• SPMT 5320 Sport Leadership
• SPMT 5324 Marketing and Promotions in Sport

Choose Two of the Following Elective Courses (6 semester credit hours)

These 6 semester credit hours will transfer to the JD.

• SPMT 5321 Revenue Generation in Sport
• SPMT 5325 Ethics and Morality in Sport
• SPMT 5329 Sport Event Management
• SPMT 5343 Player Personnel Management
• SPMT 5345 Administration of Intercollegiate Athletics
• SPMT 5346 Applied Sport Law
• SPMT 5347 Sport Media Management

Select Three Additional Elective Courses (9 semester credit hours)

JD

First-Year Required Courses (30 semester credit hours)

LAW 5402 Contracts, 4 semester credit hours, will transfer to the MS.

Second- and Third-Year Required Courses (26 semester credit hours)

Second- and Third-Year Elective Courses (22 semester credit hours)

Select five semester credit hours from the following elective courses to transfer to the MS.

• LAW 6034 Trademarks and Unfair Competition (2-3 semester credit hours)
• LAW 6035 Negotiation Workshop (2-3 semester credit hours)
• LAW 6065 Discrimination in Employment (2-3 semester credit hours)
• LAW 6071 Employment Law (2-3 semester credit hours)
• LAW 6090 Gaming and Racing Law (2-3 semester credit hours)
• LAW 6255 Sport Law (2-3 semester credit hours)
• LAW 6231 Introduction to Intellectual Property (2-3 semester credit hours)

Program Contacts

• JD Faculty Advisor - Robert Sherwin
• MS in Sport Management Faculty Advisor - Jimmy Sanderson
• Graduate Admissions Coordinator - Donna Torres