ESP 230 - Principles of eSports Management and Event Management

This course focuses on the management skills of planning, organizing, leading and controlling eSports events. The management skills needed to identify and understand the techniques used to analyze and categorize the risks that comes with managing eSports events is also a focus of this course. Emphasis will be placed on the ethics and social responsibility and management skills relevant to the industry, including the esports event manager’s role in the decision-making process, motivation of people, leading change and innovation. Additional emphasis will be placed on the management skills gained from the course concerning how to manage different stake-holders and how to distinguish expectations related to scheduled tasks and budgets.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 097, if required
3 lecture hours per week
3 credit hours