Summer 2003

AMS f322 • Sport, Fitness and Mass Media

Course Description

This is a reading, writing, and discussion course which seeks to examine the relationship of sport and fitness, discover how our attitudes toward sport and fitness activities have changed over time, and how the mass media has facilitated that change. We will also examine various treatments of sports and fitness topics to understand how the general trends of American culture find expression in those media productions. In addition to the required texts, students will be expected to read assigned newspaper and magazine articles and to attend an occasional outside activity such as a film or lecture

Grading Policy

Three papers 1800-2000 word papers, 20% each Mid-term essay exam, 20% Final essay exam, 20% Class participation is also vital.

Texts

Donn Rogosin, Invisible Men Randy Roberts, Jack Dempsey Morton & O'Brian, From Wrestling to Rasslin' Harvey Green, Fit for America Charles Gaines, Pumping Iron or Pumping Iron II: The Women

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