PESS 102: SPORT IN THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD II
Credits:
3
This course involves the study of the historical forces, institutions and personalities that have shaped sport and physical activities and traces the growth and development of competitive sport from ancient civilisation to the present. Topics include the historical, philosophical and global perspectives of sport and physical activity; sport and historiography; primary sources in sport history; philosophy of leisure; leisure in modernity and leisure in the middle ages.