MCOM 5372 - Sports Journalism

Three hours lecture. Three credit hours.

This course is designed to help students write about sports and sports figures and to help students more critically view the role of sports media in American culture. Students will examine the influence of/relationship between sports media and issues such as race, gender, nationalism, and capitalism/consumerism. Students will also examine issues in relation to journalism ethics and the production of sports media. If taken as 4372 can not take as 5372.