Chevron Left
Back to Sports and Society

Learner Reviews & Feedback for Sports and Society by Duke University

4.8
stars
1,356 ratings

About the Course

Sports play a giant role in contemporary society worldwide. But few of us pause to think about the larger questions of money, politics, race, sex, culture, and commercialization that surround sports everywhere. This course draws on the tools of anthropology, sociology, history, and other disciplines to give you new perspectives on the games we watch and play. It's the new and improved version of Professor Orin Starn's original "Sports and Society" for Coursera, which drew more than 40,000 students. We will focus on both popular sports like soccer (or “football,” as anyone outside America calls it), basketball, and baseball, and also lesser-known ones like mountain-climbing and fishing. You will never watch or think about sports in the same way again....

Top reviews

RC

Jul 23, 2017

Orin Starn has a unique and interesting way of communicating his ideas and knowledge. The course has helped me to deepen my knowledge about the relation of sports and society.

CL

Oct 26, 2020

Informative, rich, all-embracing. I wish I could take it again! Fortunately, it left me with so many things to think about that it will stay with me for a long time.

Filter by:

351 - 357 of 357 Reviews for Sports and Society

By Kolton P

•

May 26, 2025

Very useful

By Nicol O S

•

Oct 31, 2025

Le doy 3 estrellas porque es un curso muy interesante pero el hecho de que este todo en ingles y toque leer la traducción de los videos hace que sea mas tedioso realizarlo.

By Anubhav S

•

Jun 3, 2017

The evaluation for this course has questions which are very memory based and not application based

By Brandon L

•

Jan 4, 2021

Not in depth enough, could be a lot more interesting. OK but not great.

By Elio K

•

Jun 12, 2019

The pace is quite slow and the content maybe it is not for young boy

By Erez B

•

Apr 22, 2025

Not serious (what broke me down is chapter about video game in which the instructor said he doesn't understand anything about it and started interviewing his teen son about it)

By Абылай С

•

Jul 21, 2024

Авапаыы