Explores the rich connections between the sports industry, spectating, the media complex and social life. Using theories of cultural studies and drawing on specific examples from the sports world, students focus on how sport shapes and reinforces understandings of gender, race, class and sexuality. Addresses major questions about the political economy, commodification, mediation and reception of the spectacle of the sports complex, as well as politics and cultural consequences of its transnational reach. Degree credit not granted for this course and JRNL 3804.
instructor(s)
Echchaibi, Nabil
Primary Instructor
- Fall 2021 / Fall 2022 / Summer 2023 / Fall 2023 / Summer 2024
