ADSA 8025 Sports Security and Event Management

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.

Course overview

Department
Advancing Studies
School
ADV
Credits
3
Level
Graduate
Offered
Periodically in the Fall,Periodically in the Spring,Periodically in the Summer

Requirements fulfilled

No source-backed degree requirement is attached to this course yet.

Official evaluation summary

4.26 / 5

Based on 62 aggregate responses from BC Avalanche/Blue evaluations.

Data freshness

Course and evaluation data last updated 2026-08-02. Source details and limitations are documented in Data Sources and Methodology.

Instructors

  • Michael Hartnett
    Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Summer 2022, Fall 2021 · Official rating 4.49/5

Sections

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