Timetable

Lectures

Week 1: Studying sports as an academic subject

Week 2: The history and sport

Week 3: Key themes on media and sport

Week 4: Race and Sport

Week 5: Gender in sport

Week 6: Reading week

Week 7: Documentary source – extract and reflection

Week 8: Assessment session

Week 9: Film ‘Fever Pitch’

Week 10: Film 'Fire in Babylon'

Seminars

Week 1: Studying Sports History: Themes and Problems. How the module will be structured.

Week 2: History

Week 3: Media

Week 4: Race

Week 5: Gender

Week 6: Reading Week

Week 7 and 8: negotiated curriculum: e.g. Boxing and Civil Rights

Weeks 9 and 10: Film showings (see above)