Department of Education, Unit Catalogue 2011/12 |
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 Credits:
| 6 |
| Level:
| Honours (FHEQ level 6) |
| Period: |
Semester 1 |
| Assessment:
| CW 75%, OT 25% |
| Supplementary Assessment: | Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites:
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| Description:
| Aims: The aim of this unit is to further contextualise sport and coaching by: * introducing students to the multi-faceted concept of globalization in a manner that highlights its interrelated economic, political, and cultural components. * critically examine the competing theories of global homogenization and global heterogenization, in order to ascertain the best way of understanding the necessary relationship between global processes and local experience. * using a variety of national contexts to highlight and investigate patterns of diversity and similarity between various sporting cultures; particularly in terms of the derivation, structure, and experience of sport systems within specific national settings. * developing an understanding of contemporary sport as being a complex expression of--sometimes competing, sometimes collaborating--global and local forces. Learning Outcomes: On completion of this unit students will be able to: * Demonstrate a critical, theoretical, and contextually grounded understanding of contemporary sport. * Demonstrate an advanced knowledge of the condition of late capitalism and its various constituents, including: the post-industrial economy; post-Fordist production; post-statist politics; post-modern culture; and, post-national geographies. * Illustrate the explicit the connections between contemporary sport and the broader economic, technological, political, cultural, and geographic forces which shape society. * Make use of a diverse theoretical vocabulary with which to interpret various aspects of contemporary sport. * Engage the researching, writing, and interpretive skills required in order for students to make informed, insightful, and imaginative contributions to their field of study. * Identify the derivations, structures, processes, and practices of globalization, as manifest within wider society, and sport in particular. * Advance an understanding of globalization as a long-term, multi-causal, time-space implicated process, centered on the notion of conditions of accelerating and intensifying interdependency, which results in both intended and unintended consequences for both sport and society in general. * Offer considered ideas relative to the power relations at work within globalizing processes, and subsequently develop an ethics of globalization. Skills: * Read and synthesise information about a complex subject. F * Organise information coherently, selecting a form and style of writing appropriate to complex subject matter. T/F/A * The ability to apply critical reasoning through independent thought an judgement. F/A * The ability to interact effectively with others in order to work towards a common outcome. F Content: The following topics will be covered: * Theorizing Global Sport: Interconnectedness * Global Sport Practices: Roots of the Global Sport System, An American Virus? * Global Sport Peoples: Athletic Labour Migration, (Inter)National Celebrity Economy, Embodying Nation * Global Sport Products: Relations of Global Sport Production, Transnational Sport Promotion, Corporate Nationalisms * Global Sport Spectacles: The Global Battering Ram, Global Media Events * Global Sport Spaces: Global Sport Cities. |
| Programme availability: |
ED30430 is Compulsory on the following programmes:Department of Education
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