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SPORTS MEDIA

COMARTS 359
Course Description

Examines sports media using the frameworks of media and cultural studies. The relationship between sports and popular culture provides an important site for understanding and critiquing the media's relationships to social, cultural, economic, and political structures. Topics for discussion will include sports media industries and technologies; representations of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, and other identities; and the intersection of sports media cultures with such issues as activism and social change, ethics and morality, gambling and fantasy sports, celebrity athletes, and fandom.

Prerequisites
Satisfies

This course does not satisfy any prerequisites.

Credits

Not Reported

Offered

Not Reported

Grade Point Average
3.4

10.11% from Historical

Completion Rate
98.68%

2.1% from Historical

A Rate
27.63%

106.51% from Historical

Class Size
76

33.8% from Historical

Cumulative Grade Distribution

Instructors (2026 Summr)

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