| Title: | Sports, War & Masculinity |
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| Course Section Number: | GEN-302-01 |
| Department: | History |
| Description: | Cross List: GEN-302=HIS-340.Throughout history, sport has been an expression and a reflection of human conflict and aggression and a critical tool for teaching the virtues of manliness and defining masculinity. In America, sport has often been associated with war-preparing good soldiers-the better the athlete the better the soldier, while making boys into men. In the twentieth-century, the association of sports with masculinity and its promotion of physical strength, courage, and will power made sport an integral part of student-life at American universities and military academies. While the link between sport and war strengthened the fighting prowess of the modern American military, contributing to the perception of US world dominance, it also shaped strict definition and image of masculinity. This course will explore the connection between sports, war and masculinity. It will examine and interpret the role of sports in America since the colonial era, and consider how sports have created an ideal of American masculinity that has contributed to American foreign policy goals. This is a course in American social and cultural history and will explore issues of gender, race, and class. It is also a course in American foreign policy and American militarism and will examine the relationship between sports, war, and masculinity within the geopolitical context of military conflict. Course readings will combine primary and secondary source documents to encourage critical inquiry and engagement with defining issues of historical significance in the development of modern American society. |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | January 20, 2020 |
| End Date: | May 9, 2020 |
| Meeting Information: |
01/21/2020-05/07/2020 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 09:45AM - 11:00AM, Baxter Hall, Room 201
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| Faculty: | Thomas, Sabrina |
| Requisite Courses: | 0.5 credit from HIS |
Course Status & Cross-Listings
| Cross-list Group Capacity: | 15 |
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| Cross-list Group Student Count: | 9 |
| Calculated Course Status: | OPEN |
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