Scribner Seminar Program
Course Description
Sport, Self and Society
Instructor(s): Phil Boshoff, English and Jeff Segrave, Exercise Science
Description: How many hours do we devote to sport in a week, as participants or fans?
How many of us follow with fanatical devotion a favorite team or athlete? Whether
on the school, club, neighborhood, city, or national level, many of us identify passionately
with athletes, teams, and our chosen sports. In this seminar, we will examine our
personal relationship to sports as recreation and institution. We will broaden our
focus to study the structure and culture of athletics over the past three-hundred
years, examining the relationship of sport to such social, cultural and political
institutions as clubs, schools, neighborhoods, church, state and nation. We will also
consider sport’s past and present role in international affairs and its enormous economic
presence in our lives. The seminar will feature several field trips as well as featured
speakers.
Course Offered
