Global Perspectives in Sport - PMNG207

• Title: Global Perspectives in Sport
• Guaranteed by: Department of Sport Management (51-300100)
• Faculty: Faculty of Physical Education and Sport
• Actual: from 2024
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/1, C+Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unlimited / 51 (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: doc. Mgr. William Morea Crossan, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): doc. Mgr. William Morea Crossan, Ph.D.

Annotation

An interdisciplinary examination of sport as a global phenomenon. Historical, cultural, political, economic, management and governance perspectives are considered. Focus is given to international football and sport leagues and teams, the globalization of sport, market dynamics, and social impact.

Last update: Voráček Josef, PhDr., Ph.D. (03.05.2022)

Aim of the course

1.       Discuss the role of global politics in international sport organizations.

2.       Explain the history and cultural significance of sport in each country or region discussed.

3.       Explain how sport developed and who influenced its development in each country or region discussed.

4.       Explain how sport is organized and governed in each country or region discussed.

5.       Explain how economic development has influenced and been influenced by sport in each country or region discussed.

6.       Identify the top sports based on participation and media coverage in each country or region discussed.

7.       Identify the biggest problems in sport in each country or region discussed.

8.       Describe the relationship between sport and global politics in each country or region discussed.

9.       Discuss the role the media in sport in each country or region discussed.

10.     Discuss the role sport migration has played in each country or region discussed.

11.     Discuss the role of football in each country or region discussed.

12.     Apply a development, legislation, innovation or area of concern from each country or region discussed to the Czech sport environment.

Last update: Crossan William Morea, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (03.09.2024)

Course completion requirements

Regular class attendance

Active participation in class discussions

2 Reaction papers

Written test (70%)

Oral exam

Last update: Crossan William Morea, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (03.09.2024)

Literature

Required:

FOER, F. How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2010. 288 p. ISBN 978-0061978050.
KUPER, S. Soccer Against the Enemy: How the World’s Most Popular Sport Starts and Fuels Revolutions and Keeps Dictators in Power. New York, NY: Bold Type Books, 2020. 337 p. ISBN 978-1568586337.
Articles and movies assigned by instructor

Reccomended:

CHADWICK, S., PARNELL, D., WIDDOP,P., and ANAGNOSTOPOULOS,C. (Eds.). Routledge Handbook of Football Business and Management. 1 edition. New York, NY: Routledge, 2019. 644p. ISBN 978-1138579071.
O’BOYLE, I., BRADBURY, T. (Eds.). Sport Governance: International Case Studies. London New York: Routledge, 2015. 312 p. ISBN 9780415857376.

Last update: Voráček Josef, PhDr., Ph.D. (03.05.2022)

Requirements to the exam

Meet class attendance requirements, turn in make-up assignments
2 Reflection papers completed with passing grades
Written test (70%)
Oral exam

Last update: Crossan William Morea, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (03.09.2024)

Syllabus

Lectures:

1. Introduction and Globalization
2. Sport events
3. North America – Americanization; North American exceptionalism
4. Europe – Eastern Europe: Politics, Nationalism and Sport;  Western Europe: Tradition and new money
5. Latin America – Power and exploitation
6. Africa - Sport for development; The Last Frontier for Everything
7. Middle East – Sport confronts Religion: The Power of Soccer in the Most Radical of Places
8. China - All for One and One for All; The Next Sport Superpower?
9. India - The Historical Context of Cricket
10. Japan and Korea – Corporate dominance
11. Australia and New Zealand – Sporting Nations

Workshops:

1. Sport and Politics
2. Olympic Games expansion
3. Sport Migration
4. Sport for Development
5. World Cup limitations
6. Sport Growth and Expansion

Last update: Crossan William Morea, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (03.09.2024)