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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Sports and Society by Duke University

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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

MM

Nov 11, 2016

I loved this particular course. The topics are relevant. Each topic is supported by historical facts and examples and how is it relevant in the present time. It was a great learning experience!!!

LK

Jan 6, 2020

One of the best courses that mixed interesting facts with theories. I study sports management, it's really intriguing to see how sports social values entwined with each other in history!

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By Anubhav S

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Jun 3, 2017

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

By Brandon L

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Jan 4, 2021

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

By Elio K

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Jun 12, 2019

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

By Erez B

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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

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Jul 21, 2024

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