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Class Detail:
WN 2006 American Culture AMCULT 103 - First Year Seminar in American Studies Section 004 Cultures of American Sports
Credits:	3
Requirements & Distribution:	HU
Other:	FYSem
Consent:	With permission of instructor.
Advisory Prerequisites:	Only first-year students, including those with sophomore standing, may pre-register for First-Year Seminars. All others need permission of instructor.
Repeatability:	May not be repeated for credit.
Primary Instructor:	Diaz,Vicente M
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For the sports fanatic, this course uses sports as a vehicle for developing deeper and more complicated understandings of American Culture. Using the cultural histories of football, baseball, basketball, cheerleading, among others, and in college and professional levels, we will explore issues such as the role of sports in the formation of individual, group, and even national, identities; how race, class, gender, and religion "play" in the arena of sports; and the value of sports as a frame of cultural analysis. Work will include discussing course readings, and conducting mini archival and field research in sports-related topics and sporting communities.

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