PED 2302 - Sports in American Society

Credits: 3 hrs

PED 2302 offers a critical intellectual engagement with social structures, social spaces, social desires, and social oppression through which our understanding and experiences with bodies and physical activities are constituted. The course is meant to challenge assumptions about bodies as solely physical entities. A significant goal of this course is to advance thinking beyond the physical, toward a professional practice informed by social and cultural knowledge of sporting bodies, sporting identities and sporting spaces. We will work toward a radical contextualization of human movement and will consistently question the role of sport in constructing yet contesting identities, borders, and social hierarchies. As a social and behavioral marker course PED 2302 is intentionally NOT a study of individual, physical performance, but rather a study of sporting bodies, sporting identities and sporting spaces that inhabit them.

General Education Designation: Yes
Student Learning Outcome: Critical Thinking
Level of Knowledge this Course Address(es): Foundation
Latest Update(s) Approved by Academic Standards and Curriculum: December 15, 2020
Effective Date: Fall 2021