Communication and Sports

Catalog description

This course provides students with an overview of various aspects of the relationship between communication (especially, media) and sports. Topics covered may include the history of mediated sports; how various communication industries program, report, and promote sports and athletes; the audiences who consume mediated sports; and various social issues (e.g., sexual identity, race/ethnicity, politics, criminality) raised, perpetuated, or critiqued by sports coverage.