Sports Studies
Program Overview
Petersen (Program Director)
Sports Studies is an interdisciplinary minor, with opportunities for pathways into sport industries, that provides students with the tools to explore the way sports, broadly defined, impacts and is impacted by media, literature, history, culture, business, economics, and scientific/social scientific inquiry. The program explores a rich range of traditions, histories, and philosophies of sports, nationally and globally, including inquiry into the role of sports in shaping notions of race, class, gender, ability/disability, and sexualities. The minor is a lens through which students can explore connections and relationships amongst a variety of disciplines (literature; philosophy; communication studies; journalism; economics; business; sociology; history; women, gender and sexuality studies; sustainability; etc.). Sports Studies works to prepare students for the wide variety of internship and career opportunities in the growing areas of recreational, collegiate, and professional sports.
Outcome
Students will apply a culturally responsive framework grounded in social inquiry to identify and assess how sports shape culture and how culture is shaped by sports, and to learn about strategies to consciously intervene for equity in areas that are also infused with an ethos of competition.
Minor in Sports Studies
16 credits
Students will take 16 credits from a menu of courses.
Courses with an * have a prerequisite.
- EXSC 130: Introduction to Exercise Science (2 credits)
- COMM 244: Sports Communication (2 credits)
- JOUR 355: Sports Broadcasting (4 credits)
- ECON 327: Sports Economics* (4 credits)
- Prerequisite: ECON 252
- ENGL 202: Sport & Social Justice* (4 credits)
- Prerequisite: ENGL 121 or 190
- ENGL 341: Women, Sport and the Body in Literature* (4 credits)
- Prerequisite: ENGL 121 or 190
- MKTG 385: Sport Marketing* (4 credits)
- Prerequisite: MKTG 200 or MKTG 300
- PHIL 218: Philosophy of Sport* (4 credits)
- Prerequisite: PHIL 110, PHIL 155, or PHIL 197 (Students cannot receive credit for both PHIL 218 and PHIL 219)
- PHIL 219: Philosophy of Sport* (2 credits)
- Prerequisites: PHIL 110, PHIL 115, or PHIL 197
- PSYC 306: Sports & Performance Psychology* (4 credits)
- Prerequisite: PSYC 111
- SPST 476 Experiential Learning in Sports Studies (1-4 credits)
- SPST 478 Experiential Learning/Internships in Sports Studies (0 credits)