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HIST 3412 is also offered in Fall 2021
HIST 3412 is also offered in Summer 2021
Spring 2025 | HIST 3412 Section 001: Soccer: Around the World with the Beautiful Game (54775)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, West Bank
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (0 of 40 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- How did a kicking game played in a few English schools in the mid-nineteenth century go on to become the most popular organized pastime the world has ever known? In this class, we chart soccer's unlikely rise to global prominence and explore what it can tell us about people, games, and ethics all around the world today.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54775/1253
Fall 2024 | HIST 3412 Section 001: Soccer: Around the World with the Beautiful Game (32398)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2024 - 12/11/2024Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 317
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (37 of 80 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- How did a kicking game played in a few English schools in the mid-nineteenth century go on to become the most popular organized pastime the world has ever known? In this class, we chart soccer's unlikely rise to global prominence and explore what it can tell us about people, games, and ethics all around the world today.
- Class Description:
- Soccer is called the beautiful game. It is also the world's game. Over one billion people are estimated to have watched the 2014 World Cup Final on television, including a record twenty-six million in the U.S. In this class, we will chart the sport's unlikely rise to global prominence. How did a "kicking game" played in a few English public schools in the mid-nineteenth century go on to become the most popular organized pastime the world has ever known? Part of the answer is easy: kicking a ball around a field with friends is a lot of fun. But there has to be more to it than that: the passion football arouses, the delirious joy and the sickening violence it inspires, the allegiances and communities it builds and breaks, the fortunes it makes and unmakes: why have people all around the world come to care so much about this game? And what, in turn, does this obsessive concern tell us about how the relationship between sports and society, games and ethics, has developed in the modern world? Among the particular topics we will explore are: Brazilian soccer culture; the World Cup; the development of the game in the US; the explosive growth of the women's game; and the Dark Side (FIFA corruption, hooliganism, racism, match-fixing, stadium disasters).
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Everyone who likes talking about sports for credit!
- Grading:
- 30% Special Projects
30% Journal
20% In-class Presentations
20% Other Evaluation - Class Format:
- 10% Lecture
20% Film/Video
20% Discussion
40% Small Group Activities
10% Student Presentations - Workload:
- 50 Pages Reading Per Week
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/32398/1249
- Past Syllabi:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/mlower_HIST3412_Fall2017.docx (Fall 2017)
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 25 April 2017
Spring 2024 | HIST 3412 Section 001: Soccer: Around the World with the Beautiful Game (65805)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/16/2024 - 04/29/2024Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 135
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (40 of 40 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- How did a kicking game played in a few English schools in the mid-nineteenth century go on to become the most popular organized pastime the world has ever known? In this class, we chart soccer's unlikely rise to global prominence and explore what it can tell us about people, games, and ethics all around the world today.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65805/1243
Summer 2023 | HIST 3412 Section 001: Soccer: Around the World with the Beautiful Game (82537)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Second Half of Term07/03/2023 - 07/28/2023Mon, Tue, Wed 09:30AM - 12:00PMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (10 of 20 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- How did a kicking game played in a few English schools in the mid-nineteenth century go on to become the most popular organized pastime the world has ever known? In this class, we chart soccer's unlikely rise to global prominence and explore what it can tell us about people, games, and ethics all around the world today.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/82537/1235
Fall 2022 | HIST 3412 Section 001: Soccer: Around the World with the Beautiful Game (20422)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/06/2022 - 12/14/2022Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankScience Teaching Student Svcs 432
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (80 of 80 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- How did a kicking game played in a few English schools in the mid-nineteenth century go on to become the most popular organized pastime the world has ever known? In this class, we chart soccer's unlikely rise to global prominence and explore what it can tell us about people, games, and ethics all around the world today.
- Class Description:
- Soccer is called the beautiful game. It is also the world's game. Over one billion people are estimated to have watched the 2014 World Cup Final on television, including a record twenty-six million in the U.S. In this class, we will chart the sport's unlikely rise to global prominence. How did a "kicking game" played in a few English public schools in the mid-nineteenth century go on to become the most popular organized pastime the world has ever known? Part of the answer is easy: kicking a ball around a field with friends is a lot of fun. But there has to be more to it than that: the passion football arouses, the delirious joy and the sickening violence it inspires, the allegiances and communities it builds and breaks, the fortunes it makes and unmakes: why have people all around the world come to care so much about this game? And what, in turn, does this obsessive concern tell us about how the relationship between sports and society, games and ethics, has developed in the modern world? Among the particular topics we will explore are: Brazilian soccer culture; the World Cup; the development of the game in the US; the explosive growth of the women's game; and the Dark Side (FIFA corruption, hooliganism, racism, match-fixing, stadium disasters).
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Everyone who likes talking about sports for credit!
- Grading:
- 30% Special Projects
30% Journal
20% In-class Presentations
20% Other Evaluation - Class Format:
- 10% Lecture
20% Film/Video
20% Discussion
40% Small Group Activities
10% Student Presentations - Workload:
- 50 Pages Reading Per Week
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/20422/1229
- Past Syllabi:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/mlower_HIST3412_Fall2017.docx (Fall 2017)
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 25 April 2017
Fall 2021 | HIST 3412 Section 001: Soccer: Around the World with the Beautiful Game (21973)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/07/2021 - 12/15/2021Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (78 of 80 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- How did a kicking game played in a few English schools in the mid-nineteenth century go on to become the most popular organized pastime the world has ever known? In this class, we chart soccer's unlikely rise to global prominence and explore what it can tell us about people, games, and ethics all around the world today.
- Class Description:
- Soccer is called the beautiful game. It is also the world's game. Over one billion people are estimated to have watched the 2014 World Cup Final on television, including a record twenty-six million in the U.S. In this class, we will chart the sport's unlikely rise to global prominence. How did a "kicking game" played in a few English public schools in the mid-nineteenth century go on to become the most popular organized pastime the world has ever known? Part of the answer is easy: kicking a ball around a field with friends is a lot of fun. But there has to be more to it than that: the passion football arouses, the delirious joy and the sickening violence it inspires, the allegiances and communities it builds and breaks, the fortunes it makes and unmakes: why have people all around the world come to care so much about this game? And what, in turn, does this obsessive concern tell us about how the relationship between sports and society, games and ethics, has developed in the modern world? Among the particular topics we will explore are: Brazilian soccer culture; the World Cup; the development of the game in the US; the explosive growth of the women's game; and the Dark Side (FIFA corruption, hooliganism, racism, match-fixing, stadium disasters).
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Everyone who likes talking about sports for credit!
- Grading:
- 30% Special Projects
30% Journal
20% In-class Presentations
20% Other Evaluation - Class Format:
- 10% Lecture
20% Film/Video
20% Discussion
40% Small Group Activities
10% Student Presentations - Workload:
- 50 Pages Reading Per Week
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/21973/1219
- Past Syllabi:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/mlower_HIST3412_Fall2017.docx (Fall 2017)
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 25 April 2017
Summer 2021 | HIST 3412 Section 001: Soccer: Around the World with the Beautiful Game (87904)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Second Half of Term07/06/2021 - 07/30/2021Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu 10:00AM - 12:50PMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (12 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- How did a kicking game played in a few English schools in the mid-nineteenth century go on to become the most popular organized pastime the world has ever known? In this class, we chart soccer's unlikely rise to global prominence and explore what it can tell us about people, games, and ethics all around the world today.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/87904/1215
Fall 2020 | HIST 3412 Section 001: Soccer: Around the World with the Beautiful Game (16689)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/08/2020 - 12/16/2020Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (80 of 80 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- How did a kicking game played in a few English schools in the mid-nineteenth century go on to become the most popular organized pastime the world has ever known? In this class, we chart soccer's unlikely rise to global prominence and explore what it can tell us about people, games, and ethics all around the world today.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?HIST3412+Fall2016 This course is completely online in a synchronous format. The course will meet online at the scheduled times.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/16689/1209
Fall 2019 | HIST 3412 Section 001: Soccer: Around the World with the Beautiful Game (20222)
- Instructor(s)
- Hao-Wen Cheng (TA)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2019 - 12/11/2019Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankScience Teaching Student Svcs 412
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (120 of 120 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- How did a kicking game played in a few English schools in the mid-nineteenth century go on to become the most popular organized pastime the world has ever known? In this class, we chart soccer's unlikely rise to global prominence and explore what it can tell us about people, games, and ethics all around the world today.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?HIST3412+Fall2016
- Class Description:
- Soccer is called the beautiful game. It is also the world's game. Over one billion people are estimated to have watched the 2014 World Cup Final on television, including a record twenty-six million in the U.S. In this class, we will chart the sport's unlikely rise to global prominence. How did a "kicking game" played in a few English public schools in the mid-nineteenth century go on to become the most popular organized pastime the world has ever known? Part of the answer is easy: kicking a ball around a field with friends is a lot of fun. But there has to be more to it than that: the passion football arouses, the delirious joy and the sickening violence it inspires, the allegiances and communities it builds and breaks, the fortunes it makes and unmakes: why have people all around the world come to care so much about this game? And what, in turn, does this obsessive concern tell us about how the relationship between sports and society, games and ethics, has developed in the modern world? Among the particular topics we will explore are: Brazilian soccer culture; the World Cup; the development of the game in the US; the explosive growth of the women's game; and the Dark Side (FIFA corruption, hooliganism, racism, match-fixing, stadium disasters).
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Everyone who likes talking about sports for credit!
- Grading:
- 30% Special Projects
30% Journal
20% In-class Presentations
20% Other Evaluation - Class Format:
- 10% Lecture
20% Film/Video
20% Discussion
40% Small Group Activities
10% Student Presentations - Workload:
- 50 Pages Reading Per Week
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/20222/1199
- Past Syllabi:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/mlower_HIST3412_Fall2017.docx (Fall 2017)
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 25 April 2017
Fall 2018 | HIST 3412 Section 001: Soccer: Around the World with the Beautiful Game (20681)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankScience Teaching Student Svcs 412
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (118 of 120 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Global history/exploration of relationship between football (soccer)/culture around world.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?HIST3412+Fall2016
- Class Description:
- Soccer is called the beautiful game. It is also the world's game. Over one billion people are estimated to have watched the 2014 World Cup Final on television, including a record twenty-six million in the U.S. In this class, we will chart the sport's unlikely rise to global prominence. How did a "kicking game" played in a few English public schools in the mid-nineteenth century go on to become the most popular organized pastime the world has ever known? Part of the answer is easy: kicking a ball around a field with friends is a lot of fun. But there has to be more to it than that: the passion football arouses, the delirious joy and the sickening violence it inspires, the allegiances and communities it builds and breaks, the fortunes it makes and unmakes: why have people all around the world come to care so much about this game? And what, in turn, does this obsessive concern tell us about how the relationship between sports and society, games and ethics, has developed in the modern world? Among the particular topics we will explore are: Brazilian soccer culture; the World Cup; the development of the game in the US; the explosive growth of the women's game; and the Dark Side (FIFA corruption, hooliganism, racism, match-fixing, stadium disasters).
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Everyone who likes talking about sports for credit!
- Grading:
- 30% Special Projects
30% Journal
20% In-class Presentations
20% Other Evaluation - Class Format:
- 10% Lecture
20% Film/Video
20% Discussion
40% Small Group Activities
10% Student Presentations - Workload:
- 50 Pages Reading Per Week
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/20681/1189
- Past Syllabi:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/mlower_HIST3412_Fall2017.docx (Fall 2017)
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 25 April 2017
Summer 2018 | HIST 3412 Section 001: Soccer: Around the World with the Beautiful Game (87940)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- First Half of Term06/11/2018 - 07/06/2018Mon, Wed, Thu 01:40PM - 05:00PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 430
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (14 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Global history/exploration of relationship between football (soccer)/culture around world.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/87940/1185
- Past Syllabi:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/mlower_HIST3412_Fall2017.docx (Fall 2017)
Fall 2017 | HIST 3412 Section 001: Soccer: Around the World with the Beautiful Game (18236)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/05/2017 - 09/12/2017Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, West BankAnderson Hall 33009/14/2017 - 12/13/2017Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, West BankAnderson Hall 210
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Global history/exploration of relationship between football (soccer)/culture around world.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?HIST3412+Fall2016
- Class Description:
- Soccer is called the beautiful game. It is also the world's game. Over one billion people are estimated to have watched the 2014 World Cup Final on television, including a record twenty-six million in the U.S. In this class, we will chart the sport's unlikely rise to global prominence. How did a "kicking game" played in a few English public schools in the mid-nineteenth century go on to become the most popular organized pastime the world has ever known? Part of the answer is easy: kicking a ball around a field with friends is a lot of fun. But there has to be more to it than that: the passion football arouses, the delirious joy and the sickening violence it inspires, the allegiances and communities it builds and breaks, the fortunes it makes and unmakes: why have people all around the world come to care so much about this game? And what, in turn, does this obsessive concern tell us about how the relationship between sports and society, games and ethics, has developed in the modern world? Among the particular topics we will explore are: Brazilian soccer culture; the World Cup; the development of the game in the US; the explosive growth of the women's game; and the Dark Side (FIFA corruption, hooliganism, racism, match-fixing, stadium disasters).
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Everyone who likes talking about sports for credit!
- Grading:
- 30% Special Projects
30% Journal
20% In-class Presentations
20% Other Evaluation - Class Format:
- 10% Lecture
20% Film/Video
20% Discussion
40% Small Group Activities
10% Student Presentations - Workload:
- 50 Pages Reading Per Week
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/18236/1179
- Syllabus:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/mlower_HIST3412_Fall2017.docx
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 25 April 2017
Fall 2016 | HIST 3412 Section 001: Soccer: Around the World with the Beautiful Game (35259)
- Instructor(s)
- Agnes Hong (Proxy)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/06/2016 - 12/14/2016Mon, Wed 04:00PM - 05:15PMUMTC, West BankHubert H Humphrey Center 25
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Global history/exploration of relationship between football (soccer)/culture around world.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?HIST3412+Fall2016
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/35259/1169
Fall 2015 | HIST 3412 Section 001: Soccer: Around the World with the Beautiful Game (34004)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/08/2015 - 12/16/2015Tue, Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 255
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Global history/exploration of relationship between football (soccer)/culture around world.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?mlower+HIST3412+Fall2015
- Class Description:
- Soccer is called the beautiful game. It is also the world's game. Over one billion people are estimated to have watched the 2014 World Cup Final on television, including a record twenty-six million in the U.S. In this class, we will chart the sport's unlikely rise to global prominence. How did a "kicking game" played in a few English public schools in the mid-nineteenth century go on to become the most popular organized pastime the world has ever known? Part of the answer is easy: kicking a ball around a field with friends is a lot of fun. But there has to be more to it than that: the passion football arouses, the delirious joy and the sickening violence it inspires, the allegiances and communities it builds and breaks, the fortunes it makes and unmakes: why have people all around the world come to care so much about this game? And what, in turn, does this obsessive concern tell us about how the relationship between sports and society, games and ethics, has developed in the modern world? Among the particular topics we will explore are: Brazilian soccer culture; the World Cup; the development of the game in the US; the explosive growth of the women's game; and the Dark Side (FIFA corruption, hooliganism, racism, match-fixing, stadium disasters).
- Exam Format:
- 30% Special Projects
30% Journal
20% In-class Presentations
20% Other Evaluation - Class Format:
- 10% Lecture
20% Film/Video
20% Discussion
40% Small Group Activities
10% Student Presentations - Workload:
- 50 Pages Reading Per Week
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34004/1159
- Past Syllabi:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/mlower_HIST3412_Fall2017.docx (Fall 2017)
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 12 March 2015
Spring 2015 | HIST 3412 Section 001: Soccer: Around the World with the Beautiful Game (67621)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/20/2015 - 05/08/2015Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PMUMTC, West BankHanson Hall 1-108
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Global history/exploration of relationship between football (soccer)/culture around world.
- Class Description:
- Soccer is called the beautiful game. It is also the world's game. Over one billion people are estimated to have watched the 2014 World Cup Final on television, including a record twenty-six million in the U.S. In this class, we will chart the sport's unlikely rise to global prominence. How did a "kicking game" played in a few English public schools in the mid-nineteenth century go on to become the most popular organized pastime the world has ever known? Part of the answer is easy: kicking a ball around a field with friends is a lot of fun. But there has to be more to it than that: the passion football arouses, the delirious joy and the sickening violence it inspires, the allegiances and communities it builds and breaks, the fortunes it makes and unmakes: why have people all around the world come to care so much about this game? And what, in turn, does this obsessive concern tell us about how the relationship between sports and society, games and ethics, has developed in the modern world? Among the particular topics we will explore are: Brazilian soccer culture; the World Cup; the development of the game in the US; the explosive growth of the women's game; and the Dark Side (FIFA corruption, hooliganism, racism, match-fixing, stadium disasters).
- Grading:
- 30% Reports/Papers
30% Special Projects
10% Reflection Papers
20% In-class Presentations
10% Class Participation - Class Format:
- 30% Lecture
20% Film/Video
30% Discussion
10% Small Group Activities
10% Student Presentations - Workload:
- 50 Pages Reading Per Week
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67621/1153
- Past Syllabi:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/mlower_HIST3412_Fall2017.docx (Fall 2017)
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 31 October 2014
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- To see a URL-only list for use in the Faculty Center URL fields, use:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?subject=HIST&catalog_nbr=3412&url=1
- To see this page output as XML, use:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?subject=HIST&catalog_nbr=3412&xml=1
- To see this page output as JSON, use:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?subject=HIST&catalog_nbr=3412&json=1
- To see this page output as CSV, use:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?subject=HIST&catalog_nbr=3412&csv=1
ClassInfo created and maintained by the Humphrey School of Public Affairs.
If you have questions about specific courses, we strongly encourage you to contact the department where the course resides.