[Biostudent] "Sport in the Modern World" (HSTCMP 466), New History class in Spring 2023

[biolprog at uw.edu]

Good morning-

 

Do you want to make progress in your degree, but you just can't seem to stop
thinking about sports?  There is a solution!  Here is a new History topic
class that is open to all majors, with no prerequisites.  It will work
towards the Social Sciences general education requirement.  This will
combine discussions of race, class, and gender, and follow the global themes
of professional sports in the modern world.

 

HSTCMP 466: "Sport in the Modern World", sln: 15443

 

Prof. Christopher Tounsel (ctounsel at uw.edu <mailto:ctounsel at uw.edu> ),
Spring 2023

M/W 8:30-10:20AM

 

Sport, leisure, and organized competition have been elements of human
societies since at least the Greco-Roman period. In many ways, however,
sport has served as an 'arena' for the articulation, definition, and
rejection of some of the modern world's most foundational elements. In this
class we will investigate the ways in which societies throughout the world
have used sports to make particular arguments about race, gender, class,
empire, and nationality since the end of the eighteenth century. Particular
themes that we will explore include the roles of cricket and soccer in the
British Empire, 'Muscular Christianity' and the ideological roots of the
YMCA, shifting conceptions of manhood, the 'Nazi' Olympics of 1936, the
monetization of professional sports, and the evolving relationship between
sports, politics, and human rights.

 

 

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Mark Weitzenkamp, PhD 
Academic Counselor for History 
Smith 315 
University of Washington 
History Department 
Box 353560 
Seattle, WA 98195-3560 
(206) 543-5691 
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