Module SPRT2191: SPORT IN SOCIETY 2

Department: APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCES (SPORT)

SPRT2191: SPORT IN SOCIETY 2

Prerequisites

• None.

Corequisites

• None.

Excluded Combination of Modules

• None.

Aims

• to expand and develop the student's knowledge and understanding of sport in society, with particular reference to the relationship between the media, sport and society.

Content

• This module will extend and deepen the knowledge acquired in the level 1 module, 'Sport in Society 1', and will develop students' analytical skills and sociological skills in relation to the study of sport.
• Students will investigate the following areas: the sociological study of sport.
• the relationship between the media.
• sport and society.
• the political economy and the production codes and processes involved in the making of media texts.
• the content and messages of media texts, with particular reference to how contemporary issues and problems in sport are featured.
• theories concerning the reception of media texts, with particular consideration as to how the media influence and reflect sport and society more broadly.

Learning Outcomes

• Students should be able to: discuss the relationship between the media, sport and society.
• analyse how media-sport has a role and influence in society.
• identify and evaluate the political, economic and professional forces that shape the making of media-sport and influence sport more broadly.
• analyse the production, construction and reception of media-sport.

• analyse and evaluate how a range of issues in sport are represented and treated by the media.
• analyse sport from a sociological perspective.

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

• The lecture input will establish the theoretical underpinnings, approaches, perspectives and research regarding the relationship between sport, the media and society.
• Students will expand their enquiry into this symbiotic relationship through smaller seminar groups, which will facilitate discussion-based work, presentations and debates.
• These discursive modes, including independent reading, will be assessed informally during each element of the module.
• The formative and summative modes of assessment are academic written pieces of work.
• These constitute 40% of the summative grade and will be used to assess the students' ability to aggregate all forms of information acquired throughout the module.
• Additionally, there will be a summative examination constituting 60% of the final grade.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment:

Assignment: 1000 words.

■ 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