This course will critically examine the production, participation, and consumption of sport and human movement in a global context. Particular focus will be placed on the systematic comparisons of the ideas, values, images, cultural artifacts, economic structures, technological developments, and/or attitudes imbedded in global sport. In addition, attention will be place on historical context to better understand cultural sport and human movement traditions outside the U.S. and how they have influenced American culture. An important goal of the course is to facilitate a deeper understanding and appreciation of cultural nuances expressed in sport/games/human movement, and how those nuances are linked to larger culture values and attitudes. A secondary aim of the course is to help students understand how sport/games/human movement acts a vehicle to transmit cultural normatives. Moreover, the course will examine how dominant ideologies are often perpetuated and, perhaps, resisted in and through a variety of sport forms.