ADSA8025 · Advancing Studies

Sports Security and Event Management

ADV

To provide students with an understanding of the core security principles required to plan and provide a safe and secure environment for fans, event staff, and players. Students will learn the skills necessary to identify a wide variety of risks facing sporting events and sports venues. This includes how to mitigate those risks, develop emergency action plans and critical incident response protocols, and how to respond to a crisis in conjunction with state, local, and federal partners. Students will also learn how to develop and implement security plans for domestic and international sporting events, understand security principles involved in the daily operation of sports venues, and how to train staff and conduct training exercises for security colleagues.