Department of Education, Unit Catalogue 2008/09 |
ED10358 A social history of sport |
| Credits: 6 |
| Level: Certificate |
| Semester: 2 |
| Assessment: EX100 |
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Aims: To understand the present place and status of the sport and coaching fields through addressing the relationships between historical sporting structures, subjectivities, and, spaces.
Learning Outcomes: After completing this Unit students will be able to: * Critically review the structures and processes that 'made' modern sports; * Recognise our present moment in relation to the past; * Explore how historically based class, gender, sexual preference, race, ethnicity and regional / national identities, experiences or subjectivities have shaped the sporting world, and indeed how sport has shaped individual subjectivities; * Critically review the various ways in which the politics of (inter)nationalism have been played out, quite literally, through major sporting spectacles. Skills: The following key skills are either taught and/or facilitated (T/F) or assessed (A) in this unit: * Ability to develop rigorous arguments through precise use of concepts and models. T/F/A * Ability to select and use appropriate ideas to produce a coherent response to a pre-set question. T/F/A * Ability to select, summarise and synthesis written information from multiple sources. T/A * Comprehensive and scholarly written communication. A Content: Perspectives on studying histories of sport, thereby addressing methods of investigation, ontological and epistemological issues surrounding historical knowledges Structural History of Sport: The pathways to modern sport, the various political, economic, technological, and, social contexts that shaped sport at different historical moments, the role of industrilisation and urbanisations, the impact of commodification, mediation and celebritisation Sporting Subjectivities: An exploration of the performance of class based differences, racial, sexual, gendered, (dis)abled politics and identities on, in, and, through the historically located physical body Sporting Spaces: Critical engagement with major sporting spectacles, such as the Ancient & modern Olympic Games, with regard to the performance of sanctioned or selected versions of (imagined) nationhood The 'End of [Sporting] History', outlining the (often problematic) ways in which various sporting histories and knowledges (especially those of 'minorities') are being retold or reimagined as a part of the commercial production process. |