Nov 22, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2024-25
SASM 4000 - Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Sport
Examines the role of sport in the lives of women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, and gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, and transgender individuals, and reflects on the special structures and attitudes of sport for these populations. It includes a discussion of issues and controversies affecting these populations, a look at their sport structures, and a highlight of select individuals as athletes, coaches, and administrators within these populations.
Requisites: SASM 1001 or SASM 1010
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS: Bridge: Diversity and Practice
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to articulate insights about their own cultural rules and biases.
- Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the complexity of identities important to individuals in relation to its history, values, politics, communication styles, economy, or beliefs and practices in sport.
- Students will be able to interpret intercultural experience from their own and others’ worldview and to act in a supportive manner that recognizes the feelings of another cultural group in the context of sport.
- Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of cultural differences in verbal and non-verbal communication and to negotiate a shared understanding based on those differences within the context of sport.
- Students will be able to ask complex questions of other cultures and to articulate answers to these questions that reflect multiple cultural perspectives within the context of sport.
- Students will be able to lead and collaborate with people of different backgrounds to form new sports business ideas, strategies and conclusions.
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