ANTH 0711 - THE INTRODUCTION TO THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF SPORT

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Sport captures the minds and money of billions of people everyday, the Olympics, World Cup Soccer, American College Football, and Little League World Series. Television, radio, cell phones, internet keep us updated on the latest scores, highlights and goings on of our favorite and least favorite athletic personalities. Yet despite its overwhelming significance in everyday life it goes largely ignored in Anthropological discussions. This course serves to introduce students to the significance and centrality of sport in understanding and interpreting social life. Sport will be critically examined through major anthropological categories of race, class, ethnicity, gender and power. We will be using sport as the focal point with which to examine varying attitudes, institutions and social dynamics. This will not be a history of sport nor will it be a cross-cultural comparison of different kinds of sport from around the world but rather this course will seek to demonstrate to you how sport figures into the shaping of our worldview and structuring of social institutions.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Global Issues General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Social Science General Ed. Requirement, SCI Diversity General Ed. Requirements, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.

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