Welcome to the website for Sports, Media and Society (COMM 412). You can use the menu above to find any information you need about the course, including the syllabus, schedule of assignments, course documents and link to valuable online resources.
This course is designed to help students develop a critical analysis of both sports and the sports-media complex that play such prominent roles in contemporary culture. We will examine the social, historical, and cultural relationships between sport and communication and how they shape our perspectives about gender, race, sexuality, consumption, capitalism, and nationality. In addition to grappling with advanced social science research on the subject, this course draws attention to a diverse range of sports and media as a way to expand students’ engagement with different communication formats, technologies, texts, and practices. Students enrolled in this course will demonstrate their writing, speaking, thinking and researching skills through class discussion, written and oral assignments, and a final research project/presentation that will be delievered during finals week.