Sports and Society
$49
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What You'll Learn
- Sports play a giant role in contemporary society worldwide.
- But few of us pause to think about the larger questions of money, politics, race, sex, culture, and commercialization that surround sports everywhere.
- This course draws on the tools of anthropology, sociology, history, and other disciplines to give you new perspectives on the games we watch and play.
Sports play a giant role in contemporary society worldwide. But few of us pause to think about the larger questions of money, politics, race, sex, culture, and commercialization that surround sports everywhere. This course draws on the tools of anthropology, sociology, history, and other disciplines to give you new perspectives on the games we watch and play. It's the new and improved version of Professor Orin Starn's original "Sports and Society" for Coursera, which drew more than 40,000 students. We will focus on both popular sports like soccer (or âfootball,â as anyone outside America calls it), basketball, and baseball, and also lesser-known ones like mountain-climbing and fishing. You will never watch or think about sports in the same way again.
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Is this an accredited online course?
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To enroll, click the 'ENROLL NOW' button on this page. You will be taken to the official page for 'Sports and Society' on the Duke University online class platform, where you can complete your registration.
