SPM 233 - Sport in Society, 3 credit hours

Notes: Cross-listed with SOC 250(I).

This course is designed to encourage students to critically analyze how sport relates to general features of social relations and to provide insight into the institutional arrangements and cultural values of US society. The course is framed by a critical evaluative perspective, which provides opportunities for students to examine how social class, ethnicity, race and gender relations contour sport practices. The underlying assumption of the course is that sport practices can both reproduce and transform dominant ideologies and stereotypes existing in US society.