1 To understand that the role of the contemporary sports journalist involves multiple modalities and applications for their work as a multi-platform content provider
2 To engage with diverse ideas, individuals, groups and cultures to produce sports information accurately, fairly and under deadline situations across multiple news and public relations media platforms
3 To collect, comprehend, analyze, synthesize and critically incorporate source materials gathered from research, observation and interviews
4 To comprehend and apply mobile journalism strategies to deliver sports news through social, video, audio and digital applications for websites, phones, apps, and other emerging media
5 To create sports reports that are well-organized, focused, and cohesive and that apply proper use of Associated Press Style, grammar, spelling, word usage, and sentence structure
6 To comprehend legal and ethical issues affecting news media professionals
7 To comprehend strategies, rules, terminology, and practices for covering multiple sports