Description:
| Aims: To extend students' knowledge of a range of contemporary social science issues in sport.
Learning Outcomes: After completing this unit the students will:
* Be able to critically evaluate the process of social science research in sport studies.
* Gain an understanding of recent social science knowledge in sport in their chosen topic.
Skills: Intellectual:
* Develop and apply the skills needed for academic study and enquiry F
* Evaluate both research and evidence critically and assess a variety of information sources T/A
* Apply strategies for appropriate selection of relevant information from a wide source and large body of knowledge F/A
Professional practical:
* Undertake detailed and informed long- and short term planning F
Transferable/key:
* Take responsibility for personal learning and development F
* Manage time and prioritise workloads F
* Information management skills T/A
* Work independently to identify and achieve clear goals F.
Content: The following topics will be covered:
* Doing Contextual Conjunctural Research: A critical engagement with contextualising, designing, and, judging research within the current social, political, economic and historical moment;
* The Art and Politics of Analysis and Interpretation: A critical engagement with the strategies and practices of interpretation;
* Expressing Sport Research: A critical engagement with writing as a method of inquiry and the various forms of expression (e.g. performance, poesis, 'scholarly', narrative) that vie for legitimacy within social science;
* Proposing Research: A guide to writing an undergraduate research proposal.
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