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
Course evaluations
- Course rating
- 4.26 / 5 · Very Good
- Instructor rating
- 4.49 / 5 · Very Good
- Terms evaluated
- 6
| Term | Instructor | Course overall | Instructor overall | Well organized | Clear learning objectives | Intellectually challenging | Helpful assignments | Applicable beyond course | Attendance necessary | Weekly effort | Responses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2025 | Michael Hartnett | 4.7 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.8 | — | 13 of 20 |
| Fall 2024 | Michael Hartnett | 4.0 | 4.4 | 4.7 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 3.9 | 4–6 hrs/week | 15 of 20 |
| Fall 2023 | Michael Hartnett | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 11 of 21 |
| Fall 2022 | Michael Hartnett | 4.3 | 4.3 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 4–6 hrs/week | 15 of 19 |
| Summer 2022 | Michael Hartnett | 4.0 | 4.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 3.0 | 1–3 hrs/week | 1 of 7 |
| Fall 2021 | Michael Hartnett | 3.4 | 4.1 | 4.4 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 3.8 | — | 7 of 14 |