Undergraduate Course: Sport and Recreation: Interpreting Sport in a Social Context 2A (SPRT08013)
Course Outline
| School | Moray House School of Education |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 8 (Year 2 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Sport |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course will analyse theoretical traditions in the sociological analysis of sport in social context. Students will be introduced to different accounts of the development of sport and its contemporary social significance. The implications of different theoretical perspectives for research and their relation to techniques of the social investigation of sport and recreation will be outlined. The course will evaluate relevant theoretical approaches in relation to examples from sport and recreation. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2012/13 Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: 0 |
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| Central | Lecture | | 1-11 | | | | | 11:10 - 13:00 | | Central | Lecture | | 1-11 | | 11:10 - 13:00 | | | |
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| Use the conceptual language of sociologists to examine sport in a social context; understand the relationship between theoretical perspectives accounts of the social development of sport and appropriate social research methods; apply these concepts to the analysis of sport in a social context; critically assess various sociological perspectives on sport in social context. |
Assessment Information
1. 30% 10 minute in-class presentation (Formative)
2. 70% Written essay of no more than 2000 words (Summative) |
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr John Kelly
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Course secretary | Miss Sarah Fraser
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