Undergraduate Course: Critical Sociological Analyses of Sport (SPRT10059)
Course Outline
| School | Moray House School of Education and Sport |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | From Black Lives Matter and Trans Rights to (dis)ability and climate change, a broad range of global issues involving power have witnessed sport playing a central role. This course advances and extends the Year 1 Sport and Society course. Students engage in sociologically-based critiques of power in a broad range of sport case studies and examples. |
| Course description |
Global and local Issues surrounding sport are theoretically analysed from a range of sociological perspectives. In addition to extending the Year 1 'Sport and Society' course it bridges the level 10 'Sport in Global Context' and 'Sport, Media & Ideology' courses, allowing students to broaden the scope of their socio-cultural knowledge and its application to sports management settings. The focus of this course is to further develop the critical sociological imagination of students in relation to sport and society. We look at underlying assumptions (or meta-theories) about society and consider different approaches for doing research on sport in social contexts. The course has a number of overarching themes further broken down into case studies and/or minor themes and lectures are theoretically underpinned. Each week's session includes a lecture supplemented by debating point/s and/or case study/ies and links to discuss further. This should help connect theory and practice in real life.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2024/25, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: 0 |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 12,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
184 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Presentation 30%
Essay (3000 words) 70% |
| Feedback |
Presentations will receive a crib sheet with some general comments for each individual. Class feedback will be given verbally during the seminar the following week after presentations occur.
Feedforward activities will support students' preparation for the second assessment.
Students will receive individual written feedback for essays
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Use conceptual language of sociologists to examine sport in society
- Critically apply these concepts to the analysis of sport in society.
- Critically apply theoretical perspectives to the study of sport in society
- Understand and utilise appropriate methodological approaches to the critical sociological analysis of sport
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Reading List
International Review for the Sociology of Sport Journal. Numerous Articles.
Bairner, A., Kelly, J. & Lee, J. L. (2018) Routledge Handbook of Sport and Politics. London: Routledge.
Hargreaves, J. E. (1986) Sport, Power and Culture, Cambridge: Polity
Molnar, G. and Kelly, J. (2013) Sport, Exercise and Social Theory: An Introduction. London: Routledge.
Sugden, J. & Tomlinson, A. (eds.) (2002) Power Games. London: Routledge |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Research and enquiry: Critical thinking, information retrieval, data organisation and analysis.
Personal and Intellectual Autonomy: independent study, self-reflection and positionality.
Communication: oral communication, written communication.
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| Keywords | sport,sociology,critical,theory,power |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr John Kelly
Tel: (0131 6)51 6642
Email: John.Kelly@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Eleanor Terry
Tel: (0131 6)51 6812
Email: eterry@ed.ac.uk |
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