UNSW Handbook Course - Australian Sport: History and Culture

Australian Sport: History and Culture - AUST2018


	Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
	School: School of History
	Contact: Hughes,Anthony Thomas
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
	Contact Hours per Week: 3
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Prerequisite: 36 units of credit; Excluded: HIST2041
	Session Offered: See Class Timetable
	Fee Band: 1 (more info)

Description

Urbanisation transformed the shape of sport and popular culture and created an industry of mass entertainment. Explores how and why this transition took place in 19th-century Australia and England and what it all meant in personal, familial, regional and national terms. Topics include: historiography of sport and mass culture; the leisure revolution in 18th-century Britain; the rise of organised sport and mass culture in Australia; and the social and political implications of new leisure institutions.

Learning Outcomes

At the completion of the course students will:

understand the notion that sport has been a central institution in the development of Australian society, that examining the role of sport is but a different way to examine the important issues and debates in Australian history
have evaluated whether sport has been a positive agent, one of reform, or a conservative institution that has been resistant to change and which in turn has prolonged and reinforced many of the negative aspects of Australian society particularly in terms of race, gender and multiculturalism
understand that sport is a critical site for the process of globalisation in Australia
understand that the place of sport in Australian society has bifurcated
understand how historians and other academics interpreted the role of sport in Australian society.

Assessment

Class participation -10%
Commentary - 20%
Debate - 10%
Research essay (3000 words) - 40%

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