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 Session
 
09/07/2021 - 12/15/2021
Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PM
Off Campus
UMN 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

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