Document Type

Syllabus

Publication Date

Spring 2024

Course Description

This course interrogates the cultural influence of sport on communication and culture. It explores how sport cultivates meaning and values systems that apply across cultural contexts. Topics range from youth to amateur to professional sports while engaging communication concepts such as mythology, community, and identity. Students will produce communication scholarship attending how sports produce, maintain, or resist cultural attitudes about race, gender, sexuality, class, and politics.

Student Outcomes

1. Evaluate Various texts, theories, and concepts in the communication areas of our department—rhetoric, interpersonal, media, and theatre. 2. Design an effective research project or creative project 3. Produce a work of original scholarship or creative project. 4. Consider sport as a cultural and communicative phenomenon. 5. Foster critical reflexivity and build theoretical vocabulary about sport.

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