Sports and Society

Full Details
Level
Price
Common Core
Images
No items found.

Sports play a giant role in contemporary society worldwide. But few of us pause to think about the larger questions of money, politics, race, sex, culture, and commercialization that surround sports everywhere. This course draws on the tools of anthropology, sociology, history, and other disciplines to give you new perspectives on the games we watch and play. It’s the new and improved version of Professor Orin Starn’s original “Sports and Society” for Coursera, which drew more than 40,000 students. We will focus on both popular sports like soccer (or “football,” as anyone outside America calls it), basketball, and baseball, and also lesser-known ones like mountain-climbing and fishing. You will never watch or think about sports in the same way again.

Full Details
Part of resource: 
Posted 
Mar 2023
This resource has religious influence.

Similar resources

No learning resources available. Suggest a resource here.

About Duke University

To these ends, the mission of Duke University is to provide a superior liberal education to undergraduate students, attending not only to their intellectual growth but also to their development as adults committed to high ethical standards and full participation as leaders in their communities; to prepare future members of the learned professions for lives of skilled and ethical service by providing excellent graduate and professional education; to advance the frontiers of knowledge and contribute boldly to the international community of scholarship; to promote an intellectual environment built on a commitment to free and open inquiry; to help those who suffer, cure disease, and promote health, through sophisticated medical research and thoughtful patient care; to provide wide ranging educational opportunities, on and beyond our campuses, for traditional students, active professionals and life-long learners using the power of information technologies; and to promote a deep appreciation for the range of human difference and potential, a sense of the obligations and rewards of citizenship, and a commitment to learning, freedom and truth.

More by Duke University

thumbnail
Programming and the Web for Beginners
Programming and the Web for Beginners
7th - College
thumbnail
Statistics Capstone Project
Statistics Capstone Project
High School - College
thumbnail
Introduction to Probability and Data
Introduction to Probability and Data
College
thumbnail
Java Programming: A DIY Version of Netflix and Amazon Recommendation Engines
Java Programming: A DIY Version of Netflix and Amazon Recommendation Engines
College
thumbnail
Dog Emotion and Cognition
Dog Emotion and Cognition
College
thumbnail
The Challenges of Global Health
The Challenges of Global Health
College