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SCOM 464. Communication, Culture and Sports


Credits 3.00 PeopleSoft Course ID 013466 Grading Basis GRD

This course examines the interrelationship between communication, culture and sports in today’s society and how that interrelationship reinforces social values and norms, and the impact of cultural identification of class, race and gender in connecting sports values with cultural values. Drawing on theories of rhetoric and social criticism, students will study several critical approaches to sports and public discourse and will apply those approaches to sports coverage and organizations. Prerequisite(s): Fully-admitted SCOM major or minor  or Sport Communication minor , and junior or senior standing.