FYSP 054 - Sport: Contested Contests

Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4SS, WINT

Using an interdisciplinary framework, students will learn to assess sport critically as a social institution that holds the potential to both reproduce as well as challenge social inequalities, particularly regarding race and ethnicity, social class, gender, sexualities, and citizenship. Topics include inclusivity and exclusivity in sport, linkages to sport and economy, the local and global aspects of sport as well as how sport shapes individual, organizational, and state/national identities. The goals of the course are to understand how individuals and groups interact within sport that can result in reproduction of inequalities or offer spaces for activism and social change.
Enrollment Limit: 15
Instructor: D. John
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes