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Sport Studies (MA and PhD)

This specialization is an interdisciplinary program that explores sport with insights from Sociology, History, Psychology, and the humanities as well as interdisciplinary fields such as Journalism and Mass Communication, Communication Studies, American Studies, and Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies. Students develop their analytical skills in order to produce research and cultural criticism of sport, leisure, dance, and other related fields of physical activity. Master's level students often go on to doctoral study in sport studies or a related cultural field. Careers in scholarship and teaching are the usual outcomes of such study at the doctoral level.

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Master of Arts: Sport Studies Curriculum

Departmental Foundation (7 s.h.)

  • 028:202 Critical Perspectives 3 s.h.
  • 028:204 Research Methodologies 3 s.h.
  • 028:300 Research Colloquium 1 s.h.

Sport Studies Core (15 s.h.)

  • 028:178 Sport in the US to 1900 3 s.h.
  • 028:188 Twentieth Century Sport 3 s.h.
  • 028:176 Sport and Nationalism OR
    028:177 Western World Sport 3 s.h.
  • 028:270 Social Psychology and Sport 3 s.h.
  • 028:274 Philosophy of Sport 3 s.h.

Research Techniques (3 s.h.)

  • 028:375 Cultural Analysis of Sport 3 s.h. OR 07P:143 Introduction to Statistical Methods

Sport Studies Suggested Courses (11 s.h.)

  • 028:172 Baseball in America 3 s.h.
  • 028:173 History of Intercollegiate Athletics 3 s.h.
  • 028:175 Sport and the Media 3 s.h.
  • 028:179 The American Vacation 3 s.h.
  • 028:244 Seminar in Health and Physical Activity Behavior 3 s.h.
  • 028:250 Marketing, Finance and Entrepreneurship 3 s.h.
  • 028:256 Governance and Policy Issues in Athletics 3 s.h.
  • 028:278 History of Women in Sport 3 s.h.
  • 028:279 African American Experience in Sport 3 s.h.
  • 028:295 Graduate Research Workshop 1 to 3 s.h.
  • 028:374 Seminar in Sport History 3 s.h.
  • 028:378 Seminar in Cultural Studies of Sport 3 s.h.
  • Courses in American Studies; Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies, etc.

Total Credit Requirements

  • Non-thesis 36 s.h. of coursework
  • Thesis 30 s.h. of coursework plus 6 hours of s.h.


Ph.D.: Sport Studies Curriculum

Departmental Foundation (9 s.h.)

  • 028:202 Critical Perspectives 3 s.h.
  • 028:204 Research Methodologies 3 s.h.
  • 028:300 Research Colloquium 3 s.h.

Sport Studies Core (18 s.h.)

  • 028:270 Social Psychology of Sport 3 s.h.
  • 028:274 Philosophy of Sport 3 s.h.
  • 028:278 History of Women in Sport 3 s.h.
  • 028:279 African American Experience in Sport 3 s.h.
  • 028:374 Seminar in Sport History 3 s.h.
  • 028:378 Seminar in Cultural Studies of Sport 3 s.h.

Research Core (18 s.h.)

  • 028:295 Graduate Research Workshop 3 s.h.
  • 028:375 Cultural Analysis of Sport 3 s.h.
  • 028:399 Thesis 12 s.h.

Sport Studies Electives (12 s.h.)

  • At least 12 s.h. in theory and analysis courses in departments and programs outside HSS: African American Studies; American Studies; Anthropology; Communication Studies; Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies; Sociology

Total s.h. required beyond the M.A. 60

 

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