Description

What strategies can we employ to help student-athletes tie a solid educational plan to their athletic pursuits? What roles can race and gender play in the student-athlete experience? What programs have proven to promote the personal/social, academic, and career success of student-athletes? The answers to these and many other questions will be explored through small and large group discussions, conversations with community stakeholders, student-athlete interviews, and individual and team research.

This is an introductory graduate level course that is designed for all pre-service educators and personnel who plan to work with high school or collegiate student-athletes.

Learning Objectives

In this course, students will learn how to appropriately support the personal/social, academic, and career success of student-athletes. Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

• Identify and examine several personal/social, academic, and career issues that student-athletes may encounter.
• Discuss examples of effective strategies to address personal/social, academic, and career challenges that student-athletes may endure.
• Identify NCAA initial and continuing eligibility requirements.
• Demonstrate familiarity with the college admissions process for student-athletes.
• Compare and contrast select counseling approaches and their multicultural implications for use by various education stakeholders with student-athletes.
• Analyze and evaluate the multicultural issues that influence the student-athlete’s career self-efficacy and role identity.
• Assess and critically reflect upon high school and college programs designed to support the personal/social, academic, and/or career success of student-athletes.

The following assignments will give you the opportunity to strengthen your cultural competence in supporting student-athletes in their overall development:

• In-class small and large group discussions
• Report on innovative programs & interventions
• Multiple choice midterm
• Presentations on relevant topics to class and community stakeholders
• Interview of a student-athlete and report on their career self-efficacy and role identity.
• Multiple choice final exam