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Jun 26, 2024
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H107 Sports in America4 credit(s)
This course serves as an anchor for the First Year Experience by welcoming you into the Saint Mary’s University community and providing an opportunity for the development of academic skills in the area/discipline of history. Inquiry into the ways in which Americans have historically played, organized, enjoyed, celebrated, critiqued, and understood sports—in the broadest possible cultural sense—will allow you to develop the academic habits and ways of thinking to take forward into any Interdisciplinary Minor of your choice. This course incorporates the common themes of Place, Purpose, and Well-Being by investigating the role of home (home team, home games, home plate, home run, home stretch) and environment (the ball park, the green, the field, road work, the ice) in the way we experience sports, and the role of place in community formation; the important role we assign sports in shaping our character, careers, language, and lives; and the historical links between exercise and competition on the one hand, and ideas of mental well-being and physical fitness on the other.
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