CC 633 - Sports, Culture, and Society

Credits: 4 credits
(Semester varies)

Using an interdisciplinary framework, students 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.