Sport History and Film. 3 credits

Catalog description

Explores the intersection of sport history and film and how feature movies, documentaries, shorts, and newsreels can be used to study U.S. history as well as global history. Among the subjects examined are sport and early filmmaking; global issues of race, class, ethnicity, gender, doping, and identity in sport; intercollegiate athletics; amateurism; nationalism; international politics; mythmaking; hero-worship; and historical comparisons of sports systems worldwide. Offered by History & Art History . Limited to three attempts.