Sport Management 297S - ST-History of Intrcollg Sports

In this course we search for the structure and enduring organization of college sports. We look for the development of college athletics that produced yesterday and today highly paid coaches, great fan enthusiasm, endless national media attention, and the opportunity for scandal and corruption. We search for the organic link that has bound intercollegiate sports to American higher education for over a century. This requires knowledge about what we were and what we have become. It is much easier to learn about what we have become than it is to learn about what we were. In this class, we do both.

Meets with History 297S. Students must NOT have completed History 297S in order to enroll in this course.