Sport Management and Society

Catalog description

This course is designed to provide a foundation of the social, cultural, and psychological aspects that are represented in U.S. sport culture. Students gain an understanding of how various identities affect the equitable or inequitable distribution of resources, influence, and prestige within particular sports, programs, and/or individuals in athletics, physical education, and fitness. Students learn to identify current structural, ideological, and ethical issues in sport and how to develop potential solutions to inequities. Prerequisite: admission to exercise sport science major - sport management emphasis; junior standing. Offered Fall, Spring.