SRM 0220 - Sports Around the Globe

Fall 3 Credit Hours
Investigates the global aspect of sports and how they exemplify most of the contemporary phenomena associated with globalization. Some of the topics under discussion include globalization, the Olympics, international sporting institutions, the hosting of “big events” and the flow of international athletes in professional and college sport settings The main goals are to provide the students with the skills to analyze sport as social phenomena and use them as another analytical tool to study or illuminate contemporary situations and challenges in the world of sports.