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Univision's Sports Media certificate for USL Academy players is designed to give a theoretical understanding and practical experience in a category that has moved to the forefront of the media industry in the United States and around the world.

As media options have proliferated in the post network and digital age, audiences have become highly fragmented. It has become much harder for media to gather large, predictable, real time, engaged audiences for individual programs. The major exception is sports.

As a result, marketers have dedicated massive resources to complex, integrated sports strategies in everything from the Olympics to World Cup to Formula 1, the NFL, the NCAA and emerging sports like professional surfing and lacrosse. As the value of the sports product has skyrocketed, teams, leagues and athletes have found it worthwhile to perfect their own marketing. Together, marketers, sports teams and leagues have pushed the envelope on combining mass media, social and digital media, sponsorship, public relations and other disciplines into powerful integrated communications programs.

To adequately cover this broad spectrum of stakeholders, Univision's curriculum allows students to explore a wide range of perspectives, including those of sports leagues and organizations, sports media, athletes, society in general and brands connecting with audiences through sports.