Undergraduate Programme and Module Handbook 2005-2006 (archived)

Module SPRS3221: SOCIOLOGY OF SPORT

Department: APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCES (SPORT) [Queen's Campus, Stockton]

SPRS3221: SOCIOLOGY OF SPORT

Type	Open	Level	3	Credits	20	Availability	Available in 2005/06	Module Cap	None.	Location	Queen's Campus Stockton

Prerequisites

For Sport, Health and Exercise students: none; for other students: SPRS2341.

Corequisites

Dissertation, Health Promotion, Sport & Exercise Physiology III, Applied Psychology of Sport and Exercise.

Excluded Combination of Modules

None.

Aims

On completion of the module, students should have acquired a more sophisticated conceptual framework of sociology of sport through the synthesis of previous study and the in-depth exploration of sociological theories and their application to sport.

Content

This module will provide a synthesis of the knowledge and understanding acquired years 1 and 2.
Students will examine key sociological theories and apply them to contemporary sporting contexts in two key strands.
Strand one of the module will focus on the stratified nature of sports with an emphasis on inequalities and power relations.
This strand will include an exploration of topics such as gender, ethnicity, disability, social class and sexuality.
The second strand emphasises issues of deviancy in sport.
This includes topics relating to substance abuse, pain and injury, violence and sporting bodies.

Learning Outcomes

Subject-specific Knowledge:

Students should be able to describe and critique major theoretical perspectives used to study sociological aspects of sport.
identify and evaluate inequalities within sport, including key issues relating to gender, social class, ethnicity, disability, and sexuality.
critically explain issues of deviancy in the context of sport.

Subject-specific Skills:

carry out fieldwork involving interviewing, data collection and analysis.

Key Skills:

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Activity	Number	Frequency	Duration	Total/Hours
Lectures	1	most weeks	2	28
Tutorials	1	each term	1	2
Seminars	3	terms 1 and 2	1	6
Fieldwork	ad hoc	terms 2 and 3	6 hours total	6
Other
Preparation and Reading				158
Total				200

Summative Assessment

Component: Essays		Component Weighting: 100%
Element	Length / duration	Element Weighting	Resit Opportunity
essay 1 3500 words		50%
essay 2 3500 words		50%

Formative Assessment:

1 essay 1000 words, optional.

■ Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University