SADL 502 - Social-cultural Basis for Sport

3 credit hours

After successful completion of this course, students will be able to analyze the structure of sport based on sociological theories and how sport functions in modern industrialized society, specifically its relationship to religious and economic systems. In addition, be able to analyze sport as a social construction in regard to its role, structure, formal organization, and professionalization; stratification, differentiation and norms along social class, age, race, ableism and gender. Through sociological concepts students will be able to articulate the complexity of many issues that are affecting contemporary sport by thinking critically about how issues came to exist and how they continue to exist.