History of American Sport

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Recount important historical individuals, events, and movements with which American sports became enmeshed.
• Recount changing cultural assumptions, structural formations, and political implications evident in organized sports throughout American history.
• Analyze and interpret times and places in which American sport reflected and affected the following:
  • Religious beliefs
  • Gender norms: femininities, masculinities, and sexualities
  • Constructions of race and ethnicity
  • Ideas and practices related to social class
  • Notions of national identity
• Identify present-day social phenomena that can be, in part, explained by developments in American sport history.

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
Podcast reflections (5 x 10%)	50%
Primary source retrieval	20%
Local history - primary source research	30%

A 93-100% (Excellent, extraordinary!)

A- 90-92.99% (Great)

B+ 87-89.99% (Very good 😊)

B 83-86.99%

B- 80-82.99% (Good)

C+ 77-79.99%

C 73-76.9%

C- 70-72.99 (Satisfactory)

D 60-69.99% (Not good ☹)

F 0-59.99% (really, really not good …)

NOTE FOR KIN MAJORS: KIN majors must earn a C- or higher for course credits to count toward one’s KIN degree.

Attendance/Participation:

Attendance/participation is not a graded component included in the student's final grade for this course.

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

No course materials are required.