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LECTURE SCHEDULE, READINGS & ASSIGNMENTS
KEY DATES
** Link to Zoom sessions here **
SCHEDULE
Week 1: Introductions -- ZOOM ONLY
Tuesday, Jan. 26
What we will do in class: Introductions, discuss syllabus/schedule; Watch Dave Zirin's "Not Just a Game: Power, Politics & American Sports"
What is due next session: Read "Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction" -- James Fulcher (Chaps. 1-3 & Chaps. 4-6)
Week 2: What is Capitalism? -- IN-PERSON
Tuesday, Feb. 2
What we will do in class: Discussion of Capitalism
What is due next session: Read the following:
"The Rich, the Poor, and the Growing Gap between Them -- Inequality in America" -- The Economist
"Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America" -- Barbara Ehrenreich
"Framing Class: Media Representations of Wealth and Poverty in American" -- Diana Kendall
"2017 State of the Union" (just read the Executive Summary & Poverty) -- Stanford Center on Poverty & Inequality
"20 Facts about growing economic inequality in the U.S." -- Chicago Tribune (listicle)
Week 3: More on Capitalism, how we live or die with it & alternatives to Capitalism (Marxism, Socialism, Communism, etc.)
Tuesday, Feb. 9
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 4: The Sports-Media Complex
Tuesday, Feb. 16
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 5: The Sports-Media Complex, Part II
Tuesday, Feb. 23
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:
"How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America" -- Manning Marable & Leith Mullings
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
"The Capitalist Foundations of Racialization" -- Charisse Burden-Stelly, Black Perspectives
PAPER #1 DUE by 11:59 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 28
Week 6: Race and Capitalism
Tuesday, March 2 -- ALL COHORTS MEET IN EC202 (Perloth Boardroom in Echlin Hall)
What we will do in class: Discuss race as social construct, historical roots of blacks and American capitalism (think back to merchant capitalism), watch "13th" -- directed by Ava DuVernay
What is due next session: Read the following:
"Sport, the Media and the Construction of Race" -- Grainger, Newman & Andrews
"Color Coded: Racial Descriptors in Television Coverage of Intercollegiate Sports" -- Rada & Wulfemeyer
"Satchel Paige and the Illogic of Caste" -- Isabel Wilkerson (from "Caste")
Week 7: NO CLASS
Tuesday, March 9
What is due next session: See Week 6.
Week 8: Race and Sports as Social Constructs; What's Sports Got to Do With It?
Tuesday, March 16
What we will do in class: What we will do in class: What role do sports (and, particularly sports media) play in constructing race in America? Where does capitalism fit in?
What is due next session: Read the following:
"The Heritage" (pp. ix-162 ) - Howard Bryant
Week 9: The Heritage, Part I
Tuesday, March 23
What we will do in class: Discuss first part of "The Heritage"
What is due next session: Read the following:
"The Heritage" (pp. 164-238) - Howard Bryant
"NFL unveils PSA about police shooting death..." by Deena Zaru, ABC News (watch PSA video embedded in article)
Week 10: The Heritage, Part II
Tuesday, March 30
What we will do in class: Discuss the last three chapters and the epilogue of "The Heritage."
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 11: Militarism & Sport
Tuesday, April 6
What we will do in class: Discuss Paper #2. Watch "The Tillman Story."
What is due next session: Read the following:
"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
PAPER #2 IS DUE no later than 5 p.m., SUNDAY, APRIL 11
Week 12: NO CLASS
Tuesday, April 13 - No class
What is due next session: Read the above for class on 4/20.
Week 13: Politics & Sport
Tuesday, April 20
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 14: Politics & Sport: There are no do-overs, so what do we do now?
Tuesday, April 27
What we will do in class: Discuss how we do better as sports journalists
What is due next session: Final paper
PAPER #3 IS DUE no later than 5 p.m., THURSDAY, MAY 6
KEY DATES
- Paper #1 is due no later than 11:59 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 28. Submit via Blackboard.
- Paper #2 is due no later than 11:59 p.m., Sunday, April 11. Submit via Blackboard.
- Final paper is due no later than 5 p.m., Thursday, May 6. Submit via Blackboard.
** Link to Zoom sessions here **
SCHEDULE
Week 1: Introductions -- ZOOM ONLY
Tuesday, Jan. 26
What we will do in class: Introductions, discuss syllabus/schedule; Watch Dave Zirin's "Not Just a Game: Power, Politics & American Sports"
What is due next session: Read "Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction" -- James Fulcher (Chaps. 1-3 & Chaps. 4-6)
Week 2: What is Capitalism? -- IN-PERSON
Tuesday, Feb. 2
What we will do in class: Discussion of Capitalism
What is due next session: Read the following:
"The Rich, the Poor, and the Growing Gap between Them -- Inequality in America" -- The Economist
"Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America" -- Barbara Ehrenreich
"Framing Class: Media Representations of Wealth and Poverty in American" -- Diana Kendall
"2017 State of the Union" (just read the Executive Summary & Poverty) -- Stanford Center on Poverty & Inequality
"20 Facts about growing economic inequality in the U.S." -- Chicago Tribune (listicle)
Week 3: More on Capitalism, how we live or die with it & alternatives to Capitalism (Marxism, Socialism, Communism, etc.)
Tuesday, Feb. 9
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 4: The Sports-Media Complex
Tuesday, Feb. 16
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 5: The Sports-Media Complex, Part II
Tuesday, Feb. 23
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:
"How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America" -- Manning Marable & Leith Mullings
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
"The Capitalist Foundations of Racialization" -- Charisse Burden-Stelly, Black Perspectives
PAPER #1 DUE by 11:59 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 28
Week 6: Race and Capitalism
Tuesday, March 2 -- ALL COHORTS MEET IN EC202 (Perloth Boardroom in Echlin Hall)
What we will do in class: Discuss race as social construct, historical roots of blacks and American capitalism (think back to merchant capitalism), watch "13th" -- directed by Ava DuVernay
What is due next session: Read the following:
"Sport, the Media and the Construction of Race" -- Grainger, Newman & Andrews
"Color Coded: Racial Descriptors in Television Coverage of Intercollegiate Sports" -- Rada & Wulfemeyer
"Satchel Paige and the Illogic of Caste" -- Isabel Wilkerson (from "Caste")
Week 7: NO CLASS
Tuesday, March 9
What is due next session: See Week 6.
Week 8: Race and Sports as Social Constructs; What's Sports Got to Do With It?
Tuesday, March 16
What we will do in class: What we will do in class: What role do sports (and, particularly sports media) play in constructing race in America? Where does capitalism fit in?
What is due next session: Read the following:
"The Heritage" (pp. ix-162 ) - Howard Bryant
Week 9: The Heritage, Part I
Tuesday, March 23
What we will do in class: Discuss first part of "The Heritage"
What is due next session: Read the following:
"The Heritage" (pp. 164-238) - Howard Bryant
"NFL unveils PSA about police shooting death..." by Deena Zaru, ABC News (watch PSA video embedded in article)
Week 10: The Heritage, Part II
Tuesday, March 30
What we will do in class: Discuss the last three chapters and the epilogue of "The Heritage."
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 11: Militarism & Sport
Tuesday, April 6
What we will do in class: Discuss Paper #2. Watch "The Tillman Story."
What is due next session: Read the following:
"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
PAPER #2 IS DUE no later than 5 p.m., SUNDAY, APRIL 11
Week 12: NO CLASS
Tuesday, April 13 - No class
What is due next session: Read the above for class on 4/20.
Week 13: Politics & Sport
Tuesday, April 20
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 14: Politics & Sport: There are no do-overs, so what do we do now?
Tuesday, April 27
What we will do in class: Discuss how we do better as sports journalists
What is due next session: Final paper
PAPER #3 IS DUE no later than 5 p.m., THURSDAY, MAY 6