Upon completing this class, graduate students should be
knowledgeable of: The symbiotic relationship between sport and
the mass media; the theories and methodologies for critically
examining  sport and the mass media. The ideological frameworks
within which the mass media in the U.S. operates and how these
frameworks shape media representations.

Week 1 Introduction to the mediated experiences and various forms
of the media 

Week 2 & 3 The symbiotic relationship between sport and the 
media Does sport depend on the media? Does the media depend on 
sport? Week 4 & 5 Media Coverage and Sport Consumers The use of 
sport and sport figures in advertisement 

Week 6 & 7 Ideological Issues (Race, class, gender, etc) and 
media representations 

Week 8 Sport Commentators and Sportswriters and the filtering of 
sporting events 

Week 9 Print media and sport coverage Is there a decline in the 
need for this service? 

Week 10 & 12 Screening mediated coverage of sporting events 
Screening Internet services and sports 

Week 13 & 14 Screening sport films and sport fiction and its 
accuracy in representation of the sporting experience in the 
U.S. Week 15 & 16 Presentations and collection of book reviews