106-203 Sports, Entertainment and the Media

Students may be required to attend specific sporting events.

Fifty points of first-year arts including at least 25 points from a specified list of subject areas, see Prerequisites.

This subject considers a range of international sports and sporting events (including professional boxing, cricket and soccer and the Olympic Games). It examines the means by which traditional cultures of particular sports resist or adapt to the demands of consumer capitalism, analyses the relation between professional sport and other forms of popular entertainment, and examines how international sport operates through intersecting narratives of class, national identity, race, gender and politics. Upon completion of this subject, students will have an understanding of the interplay between sports and sporting events and media and entertainment conglomerates.

• have advanced research and analytic skills;

• develop critical and ethical self-awareness;

• have the ability to develop and communicate effective arguments in both oral and written forms;

• have advanced skills in media and information literacy management.

Class participation and a 10-minute paper presentation (10%). An essay of 1500 words 30% (due mid-semester) and an essay of 2500 words 60% (due at the end of the semester). Students must attend a minimum of nine tutorials in order to qualify to have their written work assessed.

A subject reader will be available from the University Bookshop.

• Film, Hoosiers, 1986.
• Film, Raging Bull, 1980.
• Film, Above the Rim, 1994.
• Film, Field of Dreams, 1989.