KIN 200 — Social Issues in Sport and Kinesiology
An examination of sport as a significant aspect of modern culture and a major institution of modern society. Among the topics that will be discussed are gender, race, and ethnicity and their role in sport, sport as an economic enterprise, sport at the high school, collegiate, professional, and international levels, the effects that religion, social class, politics, deviance, and the media have on sport, and what future trends will have an influence on the world of sport. .