Sport, Media, and Culture

Catalog description

Covers sport as a powerful ideological and cultural force that impacts people and everyday life in a multitude of ways. Most notably sport is a core site for significant identities, identity development and the construction of knowledge and socio-cultural understandings. Increasingly consumed and experienced through media, sport is a central and valued aspect of education, leisure, lifestyle, and entertainment and encompasses a range of industries that make sport socially, culturally and politically influential. Encourages students to develop a nuanced and critical appreciation of the centrality of sport and media in national culture, everyday life and individual and organizational identities.