ATS3391 · Worlds of sport: Business, politics, media and geographies

Overview

In this unit, you will examine sport within wider global, economic, political and geographic contexts. You will investigate how rudimentary community games morphed into global sport and sport businesses fuelled by industrialization, capital accumulation, advances in transport and increased leisure time. You will explore the role of sport and major sporting events in shaping the geographies of Australian and international cities and their local communities. You will interrogate the power of financial, political and cultural power of sporting organizations, business, industry and the media and how they impact ‘glocal’ agendas and refashioning cityscapes. You will explore how Melbourne and other post-industrial cities have reinvented themselves through sport as global sporting centres in an age when sport is spectacle and the stadium a theatre of capitalist consumption.

Areas of study: Monash Intercultural Lab

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Within semester assessment: 100%

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. Recognise and interpret sport as a cultural, economic, political and geographical phenomenon in global and urban contexts;
2. Critically analyse and reflect upon key issues and historiographical debates in the study of global sport, including the complex interplay between community ideals and aspirations, commercial and political concerns, development and individual concerns, and the role of the media in the development, representation and ownership of sport;
3. Explain theoretical debates about the process of globalisation on Australian and international sporting economies, cities and cultures;
4. Conduct research and construct arguments using a variety of primary and secondary sources;
5. Collaborate with peers and work independently to communicate research in a variety of formats and to a range of audiences.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.