COMM A358 - Sports, Comm. & Culture

Institution:

University of South Carolina-Aiken

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Description:

(Prereq: Junior Standing or Permission of Instructor) In this course, students explore the role of sports in communicating cultural values, beliefs, and norms, and examine the impact of sports on interpersonal, group, and mediated communication. Students will review the communication history of sports as well as its current landscape, and will critically analyze how communication in and about sports manifests, influences, and perpetuates communnication practices, human behavior, and beliefs about race, gener, social issues, myths, sports narratives, and nationalism.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

web.usca.edu

Phone Number:

(803) 648-6851

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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