This course is designed to provide students with an overview of the sports communication field by focusing on a wide variety of topics necessary to understand sports media, rhetoric, culture, and organizations from micro- to macro-level issues. All levels of sports are addressed through varied lenses such as mythology, community, and identity. More specifically, in this course, students will examine important sports-related topics including fan cultures, racial identity and gender in sports media, politics and nationality in sports, crisis communication in sports organizations, etc.
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First-Year Seminar
