Erasmus Mundus Joint Master in Sports Ethics and Integrity
KU Leuven
Key Information
Campus location
Leuven, Belgium
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
2 years
Pace
Full time
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Introduction
Students are trained to identify ethical issues, engage in ethical thinking, and translate decisions into ethical actions – the three core skills required to develop the sports integrity indispensable for addressing the ethical and integrity issues facing national and international sporting federations. The programme focuses on topics such as anti-doping, anti-discrimination, fair play, global sports governance, gambling, match-fixing and sport manipulation, safeguarding, Youth Olympics, Olympism and Paralympism.
During the first semester of the first year, students will be based at KU Leuven. The second semester will be completed at Charles University (Prague). During the first year, Swansea University professors become ‘flying faculty’, which means that their modules are taught both in Leuven and in Prague.
In the second year, students complete the first semester at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität (Mainz) or Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). The last semester is completed at one of the Consortium University partners, depending on the students' thesis specialism. At the end of the first and second year, students will attend the summer school run by the University of Peloponnese, focusing on Research Methods and Olympic Studies.
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Structure
- Semester 1 comprises the advanced study of sports ethics, ethical theory, and sports policy and practice, including anti-doping, illegal gambling, and match-fixing at SU.
- Semester 2 focuses on the experience of sport as a social practice in terms of values and norms such as athlete welfare, child protection, and safeguarding, equality, integrity, and fair play across abled-bodied and Paralympic sport delivered by staff from CUNI and KUL. Students also gain research methods knowledge and competencies and will gain a sophisticated appreciation of Olympic and Paralympic philosophy, ethics, and organization (UoP). A summer school is run by (UoP) where students from both years mix to form a Sport Integrity network community, where common themes and interests are pursued, and where Year 1 students are matched by research topic to their supervisors from within the Consortium.
- In Semester 3 the MAiSI focuses on organizational issues of sports ethics and integrity focusing on economic, legal, and managerial aspects and instruments for the good governance of sport (JGU and UPF). The student also commences their dissertation studies this semester and focus on it during Semester 4 where they are hosted by consortium partners in relation to their subject specialism.
The MAiSI graduates will benefit from opportunities to undertake practical placements within the partner's extensive network of advisory bodies, federations, non-governmental organizations, policy-makers, and commercial organizations, as well as from extensive international collaboration and training opportunities, preparing them for decisively taking moral responsibility from the inside and the outside of the sports world.
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Career Opportunities
The Master of Arts in Sports Ethics and Integrity (MAiSI) will equip students for high-level careers in sports administration and governance, concentrating on the development of stronger ethical sports cultures, and developing tools for sports integrity and compliance. Students will receive training that enables them to identify ethical issues, engage in ethical thinking, and translate decisions into ethical actions – the three core skills required to develop sports integrity.
MAiSI graduates will receive support from the faculty to undertake practical work placements within the partner universities extensive network of advisory bodies, federations, non-governmental organisations, policy-makers and commercial organisations.