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LECTURE SCHEDULE, READINGS & ASSIGNMENTS
KEY DATES
SCHEDULE
Week 1: No class
Monday, Jan. 22
Professor is out of town. Please begin to read "Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction" -- James Fulcher (Chaps. 1-3 & Chaps. 4-6)
Week 2: Introductions
Monday, Jan. 29
What we will do in class: Introductions, syllabus & discussion of Capitalism
What is due next session: Read the following:
"Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction" -- James Fulcher (Chaps. 1-3 & Chaps. 4-6)
Week 3: What is Capitalism?
Monday, Feb. 5
What we will do in class: Discussion of Capitalism
What is due next session: Read the following:
"Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America" -- Barbara Ehrenreich
"The Rich, the Poor, and the Growing Gap between Them -- Inequality in America" -- The Economist
"Rising inequality: A major issue of our time" -- Zia Qureshi, Brookings Institute
"Framing Class: Media Representations of Wealth and Poverty in American" -- Diana Kendall
Week 4: More on Capitalism: How do we live or die with it & alternatives to Capitalism (Marxism, Socialism, Communism, etc.)
Monday, Feb. 12
What we will do in class: Discussion on capitalism, class structure; Watch Robert Reich's "Inequality for All"
What is due next session: Read the following:
"Cultural Studies and the Sports Media Complex" -- Sut Jhally
Week 5: What does sports have to do with it? The sports-media complex
Monday, Feb. 19
What we will do in class: What is the Sports-Media Complex? What is our role in it? What does it have to do with capitalism?
What is due next session: Read the following:
"Sports Media: A Modern Institution" -- Robert V. Bellamy, Jr.
"The Rhetoric of Winning and Losing: The American Dream and America's Team" -- Vande Berg & Trujillo
Week 6: The sports-media complex, Part II
Monday, Feb. 26
What we will do in class: What makes sports media "different?" How do media make sports different? Discuss Paper #1
What is due next session: Read the following:
"Performative Acts and Gender Constitution" -- Judith Butler
"Sportscasting and Sports Reporting: The Power of Gender Bias" -- Eastman & Billings
"Hegemonic Masculinity: Rethinking the Concept" -- Connell & Messerschmidt
Week 7: Gender and Capitalism
Monday, March 4
What we will do in class: Discuss gender as social construct, historical roots of gender identity (think back to merchant capitalism), watch TedTalk by Rain Dove; Watch "Looking back on 'Gender Trouble'" by Judith Butler
What is due next session: Read the following:
PAPER #1 DUE by 11:59 p.m. Sunday, March 10 (Before spring break)
Week 8: No class, Spring Break
Week 9: Gender and Sports as Social Constructs; What's Sports Got to Do With It?
Monday, March 18
What we will do in class: What we will do in class: What role do sports (and, particularly sports media) play in constructing gender in America? Where does capitalism fit in?
What is due next session: Read the following:
"Fair Play" -- Katie Barnes (pp. 1-100)
Week 10: Fair Play, Part I
Monday, March 25
What we will do in class: Discuss first part of "Fair Play"
What is due next session: Read the following:
"Fair Play" (pp. 101-180) - Katie Barnes
Week 11: Fair Play, Part II
Monday, April 1
What we will do in class: Discuss the reading
What is due next session: Read the following:
"Fair Play" (pp. 181-263) - Katie Barnes
Week 12: Fair Play, Conclusion
Monday April 8
What we will do in class: The Lia Thomas session.
What is due next session:
Read the following:
The McCain-Flake Report: Tackling Paid Patriotism -- Sens. John McCain & Jeff Flake
"Pentagon Paid Sports Teams Millions for 'Paid Patriotism' events" -- Eyder Peralta, NPR
"Veterans Speak Out Against the Militarization of Sports" -- Howard Bryant, WBUR
"Police, protest, pandemic and the end of the 9/11 era" -- Howard Bryant, ESPN
Week 13: American Exceptionalism, Patriotism & Sport
Monday, April 15
What we will do in class: Discuss Paper #2 and what patriotism has to do with sports
* Watch "The Tillman Story."
What is due next session: Read the following:
PAPER #2 IS DUE no later than 11:59 p.m., SUNDAY, APRIL 21
"It's all about my 'team': What we can learn about politics from sport" - Natalie Brown-Devin, UT-Austin & Mike Devin, Texas State
"Imagining the Citizen-Fan: Sport Metaphor in American Politics and Implications for Democratic Culture" -- Michael Butterworth, UT-Austin
"'My Whole Life is About Winning': The Trump Brand and the Political/Commercial Uses of Sport" -- Thomas P. Oates, Iowa & Kyle Kusz, Rhode Island
Week 14: Politics & Sport: Blurring the lines or crystal clear?
Monday. April 22
What we will do in class: Discuss why militarization/politicization is relevant
What is due next session: Read the following:
"Made for the fight, WNBA players used their platform for anti-racism activism in 2020" -- Molly Yanity, Quinnipiac
"Do NBA teams really support BLM?" -- Kwame Agyemang, Ohio State
"It's Time to Think Bigger" -- Layshia Clarendon, The Players Tribune
Week 15: Class conclusion: Politics & Sport: There are no do-overs, so what do we do now?
Monday, April 29
What we will do in class: Guest speaker, journalist/author Katie Barnes
PAPER #3 IS DUE no later than 5 p.m., Friday, May 10
KEY DATES
- Paper #1 is due no later than 11:59 p.m., Sunday, March 10. Submit via Blackboard.
- Paper #2 is due no later than 11:59 p.m., Sunday, April 21 Submit via Blackboard.
- Final paper is due no later than 5 p.m., Friday, May 10. Submit via Blackboard.
SCHEDULE
Week 1: No class
Monday, Jan. 22
Professor is out of town. Please begin to read "Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction" -- James Fulcher (Chaps. 1-3 & Chaps. 4-6)
Week 2: Introductions
Monday, Jan. 29
What we will do in class: Introductions, syllabus & discussion of Capitalism
What is due next session: Read the following:
"Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction" -- James Fulcher (Chaps. 1-3 & Chaps. 4-6)
Week 3: What is Capitalism?
Monday, Feb. 5
What we will do in class: Discussion of Capitalism
What is due next session: Read the following:
"Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America" -- Barbara Ehrenreich
"The Rich, the Poor, and the Growing Gap between Them -- Inequality in America" -- The Economist
"Rising inequality: A major issue of our time" -- Zia Qureshi, Brookings Institute
"Framing Class: Media Representations of Wealth and Poverty in American" -- Diana Kendall
Week 4: More on Capitalism: How do we live or die with it & alternatives to Capitalism (Marxism, Socialism, Communism, etc.)
Monday, Feb. 12
What we will do in class: Discussion on capitalism, class structure; Watch Robert Reich's "Inequality for All"
What is due next session: Read the following:
"Cultural Studies and the Sports Media Complex" -- Sut Jhally
Week 5: What does sports have to do with it? The sports-media complex
Monday, Feb. 19
What we will do in class: What is the Sports-Media Complex? What is our role in it? What does it have to do with capitalism?
What is due next session: Read the following:
"Sports Media: A Modern Institution" -- Robert V. Bellamy, Jr.
"The Rhetoric of Winning and Losing: The American Dream and America's Team" -- Vande Berg & Trujillo
Week 6: The sports-media complex, Part II
Monday, Feb. 26
What we will do in class: What makes sports media "different?" How do media make sports different? Discuss Paper #1
What is due next session: Read the following:
"Performative Acts and Gender Constitution" -- Judith Butler
"Sportscasting and Sports Reporting: The Power of Gender Bias" -- Eastman & Billings
"Hegemonic Masculinity: Rethinking the Concept" -- Connell & Messerschmidt
Week 7: Gender and Capitalism
Monday, March 4
What we will do in class: Discuss gender as social construct, historical roots of gender identity (think back to merchant capitalism), watch TedTalk by Rain Dove; Watch "Looking back on 'Gender Trouble'" by Judith Butler
What is due next session: Read the following:
PAPER #1 DUE by 11:59 p.m. Sunday, March 10 (Before spring break)
Week 8: No class, Spring Break
Week 9: Gender and Sports as Social Constructs; What's Sports Got to Do With It?
Monday, March 18
What we will do in class: What we will do in class: What role do sports (and, particularly sports media) play in constructing gender in America? Where does capitalism fit in?
What is due next session: Read the following:
"Fair Play" -- Katie Barnes (pp. 1-100)
Week 10: Fair Play, Part I
Monday, March 25
What we will do in class: Discuss first part of "Fair Play"
What is due next session: Read the following:
"Fair Play" (pp. 101-180) - Katie Barnes
Week 11: Fair Play, Part II
Monday, April 1
What we will do in class: Discuss the reading
What is due next session: Read the following:
"Fair Play" (pp. 181-263) - Katie Barnes
Week 12: Fair Play, Conclusion
Monday April 8
What we will do in class: The Lia Thomas session.
What is due next session:
Read the following:
The McCain-Flake Report: Tackling Paid Patriotism -- Sens. John McCain & Jeff Flake
"Pentagon Paid Sports Teams Millions for 'Paid Patriotism' events" -- Eyder Peralta, NPR
"Veterans Speak Out Against the Militarization of Sports" -- Howard Bryant, WBUR
"Police, protest, pandemic and the end of the 9/11 era" -- Howard Bryant, ESPN
Week 13: American Exceptionalism, Patriotism & Sport
Monday, April 15
What we will do in class: Discuss Paper #2 and what patriotism has to do with sports
* Watch "The Tillman Story."
What is due next session: Read the following:
PAPER #2 IS DUE no later than 11:59 p.m., SUNDAY, APRIL 21
"It's all about my 'team': What we can learn about politics from sport" - Natalie Brown-Devin, UT-Austin & Mike Devin, Texas State
"Imagining the Citizen-Fan: Sport Metaphor in American Politics and Implications for Democratic Culture" -- Michael Butterworth, UT-Austin
"'My Whole Life is About Winning': The Trump Brand and the Political/Commercial Uses of Sport" -- Thomas P. Oates, Iowa & Kyle Kusz, Rhode Island
Week 14: Politics & Sport: Blurring the lines or crystal clear?
Monday. April 22
What we will do in class: Discuss why militarization/politicization is relevant
What is due next session: Read the following:
"Made for the fight, WNBA players used their platform for anti-racism activism in 2020" -- Molly Yanity, Quinnipiac
"Do NBA teams really support BLM?" -- Kwame Agyemang, Ohio State
"It's Time to Think Bigger" -- Layshia Clarendon, The Players Tribune
Week 15: Class conclusion: Politics & Sport: There are no do-overs, so what do we do now?
Monday, April 29
What we will do in class: Guest speaker, journalist/author Katie Barnes
PAPER #3 IS DUE no later than 5 p.m., Friday, May 10