English · Boston College
Sports can be one of the most important formative elements in our lives, teaching us individual discipline, the spirit of collaboration, and aspirational goals of excellence. Even more, through sports, we also encounter themes of nationalism, social class, gender, sexuality, history, and so on. Drawing on critical approaches from rhetoric, archival studies, American history, in this class we examine the role of sports in our individual lives and American culture at large. Students will learn key theoretical approaches to the study of sport, games, and play and will engage in a research project
