KINES 2600 - Sport-Amer Society

Institution:

University of Utah

Subject:

Kinesiology

Description:

This course considers both the popular fascination with, and the academic investigation of, sport and American society. Philosophers and sociologists argue that sport has become the one cultural activity that most effectively overcomes distinctions of race, class, gender, ethnicity, politics, and religion, to bind Americans in a community of shared values and aspirations. Conversely, sport has also magnified and reproduced a myriad of social inequalities. Students will routinely appraise how their worldview and personal ethics serve to reproduce, revise, or replace the structure, norms and beliefs associated with local, national, and international sport and physical culture. Through a sociological and historical lens, students will appraise the unifying power of sport, as well as explain how sport serves to reproduce inequalities present in the larger society.

Credits:

3.00

Credit Hours:

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.utah.edu

Phone Number:

(801) 581-7200

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Calendar System:

Semester

General Education

• BF - Social/Behavioral Science Exploration

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