SMS 265 US Sport History

3 Credit(s) DPDS

The course examines the development and operation of American sports, with a particular focus on the ways that a variety of men’s and women’s sports’ rules, governing bodies, leagues, and the media coverage of them have both reflected and shaped American values and beliefs. The course will focus on the post-industrialization era and will examine the roles that class, ethnicity, race, gender, economic and media forces, politics, and regional preferences have played in influencing the sporting activities of Americans, opening opportunities for some and limiting them for others.Three lecture hours per week.