The Sports Communication minor offers students the opportunity to develop practical communication skills for the sports industry. This minor complements skills Columbia students are developing in many majors (e.g., Business & Entrepreneurship, Cinema & Television Arts, Design, Photography, Cultural Studies). It includes two foundational communication courses and four courses focusing on either the history, the business, or the media coverage of sports.

As a result of successfully completing the program requirements, students should be able to:

• understand the development, current state, and emerging trends of sports communication and its audiences;
• create communication content for the sports industry across a variety of media forms, appropriate to specific audiences, purposes, contents, and contexts; and
• accomplish goals with a critical awareness of sports communication practices.