The Texas Program in Sports and Media
Spring 2011 sport and society classes
College of Communication
ADV 378/PR 378 Business of Sports Television
Professor: Joel Lulla
(05784) TTH 2 to 330p CBA 4.328
ADV 378/PR 378 Sports, Media and the Integration of American Society
Professor: Mike Cramer
Topic description: Addresses the role of and convergence of sports, entertainment, and the media in American society and American culture from Reconstruction through the present.
(05796) MW 2 to 330p UTC 3.124
ADV 378 7-Integrated Communication for Sports
Professor: Fran Harris
(05800) TH 4 to 7p BEL 328
College of Liberal Arts
AFR 374D/EDC373 African Americans in Sport
Professor: Dr. Louis Harrison
Topic description: An interdisciplinary study of black women writers, artists, entertainers, and activists in the African diaspora. Examines various ways that black women address issues of race, gender, and sexuality in literature, popular culture, art, and politics.
(30430) TTH 930 to 11a SZB 104
EUS 346/SOC 321K Sport and English Society
Professor: Dr. Ben Carrington
Topic description: Study of sport as a way to map the changing nature of English society. Explores the internal divisions around class, region, gender, and ethnicity that are central to understanding English identity in the 21st century and how these identities are reproduced within sport.
(36315) Maymester. Taught in Leeds, England.
AMS 311S American sports and Culture
Professor: Tom Hackett
Topic description: Examines how the games Americans play express the nation's deepest convictions and controversies about success, class hierarchies, gender roles, race relations, and the nation's fraught global ambitions. Traces the history of changing attitudes toward sports, from an ungodly pursuit to today's deification of superstar athletes.
(30735) MWF 10 to 11a GAR 0.132
(30740) MWF 12 to 1p BUR 228
RHE 309K Rhetoric of Sports Stars
Professor: Rachel Wise
Topic description: A writing course focused on studying and practicing methods of rhetorical analysis within the contexts of disputed issues of academic, political, or cultural significance.
(44070) MWF 11 to 12p PAR 302
School of Law
LAW 397S Seminar: Jurisprudence of Sport
Professor: Mitch Berman
(29920) M 330 to 530p JON 6.202
LAW 341G Sports Law
Professor: L. Scot Powe
(29045) MTW 1030 to 1130a TNH 2.138
Join the community
TPSM is developing a local community of faculty, graduate students and undergraduate students with an interest in sports, media and society. The emerging field is broad and deep, replete with questions and issues that require a diverse and interdisciplinary community of scholars to address in a meaningful manner.
TPSM posits that:
- Sport precipitates beneficial social change and economic development.
- Media stimulate human engagement and inter-connection.
Sports and media are two sides of a common coin, revealing (for better or worse) human nature, culture and community in a manner that no other aspect of society can touch. TPSM engages these issues at UT-Austin by supporting curriculum, research and programming within the related disciplines of the College of Communication: Advertising/Public Relations, Journalism, Radio-Television-Film and Communication Studies. TPSM also supports an interdisciplinary discourse across campus with departments and faculty that share an appreciation of stories from sports.
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