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When/where are office hours?

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Tuesdays 2-4 and 5373 North Quad

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When are Benjamin’s office hours?

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Wednesday 4:45-5:45 and Thursday 3-4

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A rough description of the course

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gender, race, sexuality, nationalism, and identity in sports communication.

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Course goals/learning outcomes

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  • Identify and exp, ain ways communication is a part of sport
  • Gain skills to be more critical consumers of sport based on the role communication plays in sport
  • Describe a variety of communication concepts and methods that enable the study of sport.
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Required text

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Billings, Butterworth, and Turman– Communication and sport, surveying the field

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What is the course total

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100 points

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What is the final group project?

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Explore contemporary crisis points in sport discourse

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Participation/attendance

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attendance not taken in lectures but in discussion section, allowed 2 unexcused absences before incurring penalties of 1 point per absence. Attendance includes participation

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Class presentation

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5-7 minute presentation in which you talk about anything related to the topic but must connect material with at least 2 class concepts (if PPT bold the concepts)

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Policy on late submission

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  • any late assignment that is accepted within 24 hrs will receive a 50% penalty
  • class presentations cant be made up
  • make up exams are only allowed if extenuating circumstances occur and with prior approval
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Extra credit opportunities

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offered at the instructor’s discretion

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Academic honesty and integrity

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  • cheating and plagiarism is not tolerated
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Religious observances

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You have the right to observe religious holidays but you must complete work

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HW 1

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Sport discourse observation (individual paper) based on unit 1 readings

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HW 2

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Film review (individual video)– watch a sport-focused film and assess it for its sport discourse

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HW 3

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Better relationships in sport (individual letter)– write a letter to diagnose an unhealthy sport relationship in your life and give advise based on info covered in class

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Final group project

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explore contemporary crisis points in sport discourse

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Why are sports important?

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  • provide models of leadership for young people
  • develop individual character and skill
  • develop interpersonal and conflict resolution skills
  • communication
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Where do we see sports in our life?

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  • language
  • our identity
  • the largest industry in the U.S.
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Sports contribution to society

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  • ultimate shared experience

- people from all walks of life

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How has the consumption of sports changed?

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  • More of it in different formats

- Amount of sports available

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Michael Real “Super Bowl: Mythic Spectacle”

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televising the super bowl shows American identity

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Trujillo and Ekdom

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analyzed sportswriters account of the 1984 chicago cubs to show how American values are displayed, affirmed, and integrated

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Farell

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recognized mediated production of the olympic games used international politics and dramatic narratives to foster national identity

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Define Communication-- Alberts, Nakyama and Martin 2012
a transactional process in which people generate meaning through the exchange of verbal and nonverbal messages in specific contexts influenced by individual and societal forces embedded in culture
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Interpersonal
studies of family, friend, and romantic relationships, workplace interactions
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Mediated
Studies of audiences, industries, and productions across an array of forms
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four levels of sport
play, games, contests, and sports
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Define sport
- Nonutillitarian physical or intellectual activity pursued for its own sake. - Sport is repeatable, regulated, physical contest producing a clear winner
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Basic communication level
sender, encoding message, message channel, decoding message, receiver } feedback
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Define medium
oral, written, visual, electronic
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Define Channel
In-person, phone, text, email
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Define Non-verbal
aesthetic, physical, signs, symbols
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Forms of communication in sport
Intrapersonal, interpersonal, group, public, mass
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Intrapersonal
communication with oneself using internal vocalization or reflective thinking
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Interpersonal
communication between people whose lives mutually influence one another
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Group
communication among three or more people interacting to achieve a shared goal
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Public
is a sender-focused form of communication in which one person is typically responsible for conveying information to an audience
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Mass
when public communication transmitted to many people through print or electronic media
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Define play
nonutilitarian physical activity
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Define games
when play becomes organized
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Define contests
winners and losers (war is not a sport/game)
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Define sports
playful, physical contests that is, as nonutilitarian contexts which include an important measure of physical as well as intellectual skills
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Mind sports
The international sports federation association recognizes five non-physical sports: bridge, chess, checkers, go, and xiangqi
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What academic fields have analyzed sport?
Kinesiology, psychology, and sociology
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Paradigm
a model or frame of reference we use to organize our observations and reasoning or way of looking at things
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Three paradigms in communication research
Social-scientific, Interpretive, and critical
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Social-scientific paradigm
quantitative method- survey, experiment content analysis, large sample size, numbers can present conversation action or stories
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Social-scientific paradigm advantages
- rapid collection/analysis | - rigorous scientific control-- greater precision
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Social-scientific paradigm disadvantages
- cannot provide a deeper understanding | - not case-specific
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Interpretive paradigm
- qualitative method: interview, focus group, observation - non-numerical data - small sample size, non-random sampling
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Interpretive paradigm advantages
- Rich underlying and deeper meaning of the phenomenon | - flexible and allows researchers to pursue new areas
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Interpretive paradigm disadvantages
- time-consuming - researchers' bias has a big influence on the study - harder to generalize results to a larger population
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critical paradigm
emphasize power, inequity and social change - human behavior and scholarship are unavoidably political - using scholarship to facilitate positive social change

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