| Effective Term: | 2026/05 |
| Institute / School : | Institute of Health and Wellbeing |
| Unit Title: | Sport Event Management |
| Unit ID: | ISMAN1002 |
| Credit Points: | 15.00 |
| Prerequisite(s): | Nil |
| Co-requisite(s): | Nil |
| Exclusion(s): | Nil |
| ASCED: | 080319 |
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| Brief description of the Unit |
This unit introduces students to the planning, delivery, and evaluation of sport events across a range of contexts. Students will explore the event lifecycle, including conceptualisation, budgeting, logistics, stakeholder engagement, risk management, and post-event reporting. Through a combination of theoretical frameworks and applied learning activities, students will develop an understanding of the roles and responsibilities involved in sport event coordination and the broader organisational, legal, and strategic considerations that shape event delivery. The unit prepares students to contribute to sport events in diverse settings, with skills and knowledge that are adaptable to both community and professional environments. |
| Grade Scheme: | Graded (HD, D, C, P, MF, F, XF) |
| Work Experience Indicator: |
| No work experience |
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| Supplementary Assessment:Yes |
| Where supplementary assessment is available a student must have failed overall in the Unit but gained a final mark of 45 per cent or above, has completed all major assessment tasks (including all sub-components where a task has multiple parts) as specified in the Unit Description and is not eligible for any other form of supplementary assessment |
| Course Level: |
| Level of Unit in Course | AQF Level(s) of Course | | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | | Introductory | | |  | | | | | Intermediate | | | | | | | | Advanced | | | | | | |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
| Knowledge: |
| K1. | Define the event planning process for the conceptual design, implementation and evaluation of sport events. |
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| K2. | Identify social, economic and/or environmental impacts and legacies of sport events for stakeholders and host communities. |
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| K3. | Recognise the concepts of project and logistics management, event operations, risk management, impact and legacy management and evaluation processes of sport events. |
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| K4. | Explain the role, responsibilities and function of stakeholders including government, non-government and private sector organisations in sport events. |
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| Skills: |
| S1. | Demonstrate basic ability to apply critical and creative thinking in the conceptualisation and planning of sport events. |
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| S2. | Critically evaluate and refine planning and evaluation documents using appropriate tools, theoretical frameworks, and contextual judgement. |
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| Application of knowledge and skills: |
| A1. | Apply key principles of event management to successfully plan and evaluate sport events. |
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| Unit Content: |
The unit content topics may include: Introduction: Event concepts and contexts Pre-planning - securing rights to host an event Planning to realise legacy benefits Event governance and leadership Event operations and logistics Event planning and project management Financing events Event workforces Legal considerations, human rights and risk management Event marketing and promotion Event-time considerations Post-event management |
| Graduate Attributes: |
| Federation University recognises that students require key transferable employability skills to prepare them for their future workplace and society. FEDTASKS (Transferable Attributes Skills and Knowledge) provide a targeted focus on five key transferable Attributes, Skills, and Knowledge that are be embedded within curriculum, developed gradually towards successful measures and interlinked with cross-discipline and Co-operative Learning opportunities. One or more FEDTASK, transferable Attributes, Skills or Knowledge must be evident in the specified learning outcomes and assessment for each FedUni Unit, and all must be directly assessed in each Course.
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| FED TASK and descriptor | Development and acquisition of FEDTASKS in the Unit | | Level | FEDTASK 1
Interpersonal | Students will demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate, inter-act and work with others both individually and in groups. Students will be required to display skills in-person and/or online in: • Using effective verbal and non-verbal communication • Listening for meaning and influencing via active listening • Showing empathy for others • Negotiating and demonstrating conflict resolution skills • Working respectfully in cross-cultural and diverse teams. | Level 1 - Students require directions and boundaries from mentor | FEDTASK 2
Leadership | Students will demonstrate the ability to apply professional skills and behaviours in leading others. Students will be required to display skills in: • Creating a collegial environment • Showing self -awareness and the ability to self-reflect • Inspiring and convincing others • Making informed decisions • Displaying initiative | Level 1 - Students require directions and boundaries from mentor | FEDTASK 3
Critical Thinking and Creativity | Students will demonstrate an ability to work in complexity and ambiguity using the imagination to create new ideas. Students will be required to display skills in: • Reflecting critically • Evaluating ideas, concepts and information • Considering alternative perspectives to refine ideas • Challenging conventional thinking to clarify concepts • Forming creative solutions in problem solving. | Level 1 - Students require directions and boundaries from mentor | FEDTASK 4
Digital Literacy | Students will demonstrate the ability to work fluently across a range of tools, platforms and applications to achieve a range of tasks. Students will be required to display skills in: • Finding, evaluating, managing, curating, organising and sharing digital information • Collating, managing, accessing and using digital data securely • Receiving and responding to messages in a range of digital media • Contributing actively to digital teams and working groups • Participating in and benefiting from digital learning opportunities. | Level 1 - Students require directions and boundaries from mentor | FEDTASK 5
Sustainable and Ethical Mindset | Students will demonstrate the ability to consider and assess the consequences and impact of ideas and actions in enacting ethical and sustainable decisions. Students will be required to display skills in: • Making informed judgments that consider the impact of devising solutions in global economic environmental and societal contexts • Committing to social responsibility as a professional and a citizen • Evaluating ethical, socially responsible and/or sustainable challenges and generating and articulating responses • Embracing lifelong, life-wide and life-deep learning to be open to diverse others • Implementing required actions to foster sustainability in their professional and personal life. | Level 1 - Students require directions and boundaries from mentor |
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| | Learning Outcomes Assessed | Assessment Tasks | Assessment Type | Weighting | | 1. | K1, K2, K3 | Critical analysis of application of key concepts and theories to an approved sport event case study. | Case Study | 20-40% | | 2. | K1, K2, K3, K4, S1, A1 | Prepare a sport event proposal informed by key concepts and theories. | Proposal | 30-50% | | 3. | K1, K2, K3, K4, S1, S2, A1 | Prepare a report with operational plans for a sport event and debrief documents. Reflect on the use of technology in the planning process, its limitations, and justify key decisions using key concepts and theories. | Report | 30-50% |
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