3 credits
Summer 2026 Lecture Distance Learning Upper Division
This class will help students learn to think critically about sports communication, but it will also help students learn to do sports communication. Through the use of sports books and movies, guest speakers, field trips, and case studies, students will learn not only about sports communication as a field of study and a profession, but also how they can be more thoughtful consumers of sports communication in its various forms.
Learning Outcomes1Describe multiple ways that sports communication constructs and maintains culture.
2Explain changes in sports communication related to race and gender.
3List five key events in the last 100 years of sports communication.
4List and analyze issues related to naming in sports.
5Create a basic sports crisis communication plan.
6Frame labor-management sports communication issues from both perspectives.
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