AFRA 223 - Sports, Media, and Culture

Institution:

University of Delaware

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Description:

This course examines the interrelationship of sports, media, and culture in today's society and how that interrelationship sometimes reinforces or challenge social values. It draws on the cultural identification of class, race, and gender to identify sports values and cultural values. Drawing on theories of culture, rhetoric, and social criticism, we will examine media's role in telling the story of sports and, in telling that story, shapes cultural values. Students will study several critical approaches to sports and public discourse and will apply those approaches to journalism, public relations, the news and popular media, and other forms of mass communication.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.udel.edu/

Phone Number:

(302) 831-2000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Four-one-four plan

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