All Courses
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SP25: KIN-68 Sec 80 - Visl Rep Sprt Cult
This course will critically examine visual representations of sport in popular culture. Particular attention will be paid to how media, as a form of popular culture, is produced, represented and, ultimately, consumed. An important goal of the course is to facilitate a deeper understanding and appreciation of the artistic qualities that exemplify works of human creativity in sport. A secondary aim of the course is to help students understand the power of visual representations to shape and reproduce our social reality through the development of media literacy skills. Moreover, the course will examine how dominant ideologies are often perpetuated and, perhaps, resisted in and through a variety of visual forms.
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KIN 77 Healthy Skepticism in Fitness and Sport
Introduction to critical thinking through the lens of exercise and sport. Topics include the scientific method, fact checking, logical fallacies, inductive and deductive reasoning, and the role of mass media in spreading pseudoscientific claims. Students evaluate sources, identify assumptions, and develop oral and written arguments to address misinformation in fitness culture and its impact on health inequities.
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SU25: KIN-169 Sec 50 - Divrsty/Stress/Hlth
This course will cover the impact of structured inequalities on stress and health of diverse populations. This will include analysis of physiological/psychosocial health factors related to diversity, as well as behavioral interventions and social actions that mediate stress and optimize health and social justice.
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FA25: KIN-111 Sec 01 - Global Sport
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.