SPORT HISTORY IN THE UNITED STATES

Catalog description

This course examines and interprets American sports from the colonial era to the present with particular attention to the role of sports in American life and how changes in American life have affected sports. The course also offers an exploration of American social and cultural history with an emphasis on issues such as race, class, gender, foreign policy, nationalism, religion, economics, industrialization, immigration and urbanization as they relate to sports. It is not a course covering sports trivia. The main goal of this course is to use sports as a way to better understand American history and culture. This course is offered primarily at the Stark Campus.