EDUC 474Ethical Issues in Sports
Education · 4 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)
Coaches and sport management professionals are likely to face numerous ethical issues and dilemmas in their day-to-day professional practices. Introduction to salient moral and ethical issues involved in physical education, sports, and coaching. Students gain analytical tools to make ethically informed decisions by introducing normative principles and framework to guide decision-making in real-life situations. Covers content areas where ethical decision-making may be relevant including sportsmanship, gambling, coaching, parental responsibilities, violence, drug use and testing, race and gender equity, media, and commercialization of college sports. Includes lectures, discussions, analysis of case studies, and applications of decision-making tools to resolve ethical issues.
Letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.