EXS 427 - Globalization and Sport

To give a cultural and sociological background concerning the Western world's colonization and globalization of sport practices on a worldwide scale. An examination of the various sport practices used on a global level with respect to labor, migration, media, politics, race culture, gender, environment and social stratification will be examined during the semester.

Various social theories will be used to provide understanding of trends and changes in sports on a global level with attention given to theories that use an agency-structure theoretical perspective. (3 cr. hr.)
Frequency code O = offered occasionally

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Describe and discuss how sport functions at the local, national and supranational, and international levels and how countries exert their influence and capital on the stage of international sport.
2. Apply social theories to sport and globalization processes.
3. Critique how sport as a global system is both connected to and independent of other global economic and political bodies and part of ever-changing global interconnections.
4. Recognize the role of European nations and European Union and the United States in the globalization of sport.
5. Cite the role of sport in the building of nations.