School of Communication and Media
Undergraduate

Term: Spring 2026
Session: Full Term (Jan 20 - May 08)
Start Date: Tuesday, Jan 20, 2026
End Date: Friday, May 08, 2026
Availability: Online
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The Interaction of Politics Sports and Media challenges students to grasp how powerful forces ? political business athletic and journalistic ? often come together (or work with differing aims) for a perceived important local national or international sports event or idea. Using case studies readings research and discussions this course explores issues such as political interference in the Olympic Games business support for local stadium construction projects the business/commercial pressures on major sports events and how the media report these events. This course demands that students see sports as more than mere games in which a winner or loser is identified. Instead over the next 15 weeks students must consider how powerful interests can work together or collide with each other when important events are taking place or ideas are considered.