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 2022
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/1, C+Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (0)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Guarantor: Mgr. William Morea Crossan, Ph.D.

Annotation

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

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.

Aim of the course

Last update: Mgr. William Morea Crossan, Ph.D. (29.08.2023)

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.

Course completion requirements

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

Regular class attendance
2 Reflection papers
Written test (70%)
Oral exam

Literature

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

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.

Requirements to the exam

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

Regular class attendance
2 Reflection papers
Written test (70%)
Oral exam

Syllabus

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

Lectures:

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

Seminars:

1. Understanding global sport flows
2. Implications of sport organization in a country
3. Defeating the oppressor
4. Demands of globalization on sport development
5. Sport migration and sport for migration
6. Soft power
7. Local - global media tensions