Credit Hours - 3

This course is designed to introduce students to the fundamental concepts and knowledge in the multi-disciplinary subject of sport and physical education. It will discuss the enormous dimensions of sport and provide students with the essential underpinning knowledge and understanding for the degree course and career in sport. Topics include the making of sport cultures; the modern city and the making of sport; sport and history on the ground and the middle-class colonisation and the making of sport.

Course Objective/Goals • To introduce students to the history of sport. • To enable students ‘appreciate the values of sport. • To introduce to the students’, the career nature of sport. • To enable students’, explore the various activities of sport for all ages. Student Learning Outcomes By the end of the course, students should be able to: • Differentiate between physical education and sport. • Identify and explain the values of sport. • Identify the career opportunities within the sport industry. • Appreciate the need for sport participation. Reading Materials Darnell, S. C., Field, R., & Kidd, B. (2019). The history and politics of sport-fordevelopment. Palgrave Macmillan UK. Foster, G., O’Reilly, N., & Dávila, A. (2020). Sports business management: Decision making around the globe. Routledge. Murray, S. (2018). Sports diplomacy: Origins, theory and practice. Routledge Weinberg, Robert S., and Daniel Gould. Foundations of sport and exercise psychology, 7E. Human kinetics, 2019 Weiss, O., & Norden, G. (2021). Introduction to the Sociology of Sport. Brill. Williams, A. M., & Jackson, R. C. (Eds.). (2019). Anticipation and decision making in sport. Abingdon: Routledge. Woods, R., & Butler, B. N. (2020). Social issues in sport. Human Kinetics Publishers.

Credit Hours - 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. 

Course Objectives/Goals

• To introduce students to the history of sport and leisure. 

• To enable students ‘appreciate the values of Leisure. 

• To introduce to the students’ various aspects of physical activity. 

• To enable students’explore the various activities of sport from Middle Ages to modernity. 

Student Learning Outcome 

By the end of the course, students should be able to: 

• Differentiate between leisure and sport. 

• Identify and explain the various aspects of physical activity. 

• Identify the values of Leisure. 

• Appreciate the need for sport participation.

 Reading Materials 

Besnier, N., Brownell, S., & Carter, T. F. (2018). The anthropology of sport: Bodies, borders, biopolitics. Univ of California Press. Bouwer, J., & Van Leeuwen, M. (2017). Philosophy of leisure: Foundations of the good life. Routledge. Evans, J. (Ed.). (2017). Physical education, sport and schooling: Studies in the sociology of physical education (Vol. 20). Routledge Hodge, S. R., Lieberman, L. J., & Murata, N. M. (2017). Essentials of teaching adapted physical education: Diversity, culture, and inclusion. Routledge. Long, J., Fletcher, T., & Watson, B. (Eds.). (2017). Sport, leisure and social justice. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.