COMM 330 - Communication, Sports, and America

Credit Hours: 3

This course explores the processes of communication in multiple sport environments, including sport fan cultures, sport and mythology, gender communication in sport, race and ethnicity in sport, politics and nationalism in sport, performing identity in sport, family communication and sport, and crisis communication in sports organizations. Emphasis is placed on how these topics are best understood as embedded in the American culture and the influence that sport has on communication processes in multiple contexts.