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Intercollegiate Sports in America, 1900-2015 Spring 2015 Tuesday 4-6 and online Requirements and Grades Requirements This course requires students to read, write, and discuss. This course is unusual in that we have no tests, we have no specific set of facts or names or dates that everyone must know. Instead, we have a series of topics, readings, and a variety of methods for discussing what we know and learn. I provide a perspective on college athletics in class based on my own experience and reading. You provide your perspectives as well, based on your experiences and on the required and other readings for the class. You and I post comments to our discussion forums that demonstrate that we have have read, learned, and experienced college sports. You will show that you have thought about the issues and can contribute to our discussion. While there are many different ways to approach college sports and many valid opinions that may not always coincide, logic, information, and data should inform our judgments and explanations. The best comments use the readings and other information explicitly to make the case or to provide illustrations. In many ways this course is similar to a history colloquium where we read, write, and discuss. As you will see below, the grade in this course is a reflection of your constant involvement with the topics identified for each week. The grade shows that you were involved every week, that you wrote interesting and thoughtful posts to your discussion forum; posts that engaged a issue relevant to the week's topics and that contributed information, analysis, and insight. History is a discipline of reading, writing, and discussion. Committed to the disciplined discussion of past events and their significance, historians accumulate, analyze, write about, and discuss information with their colleagues. In this class we do all of this. We participate in discussion through Moodle. The class reading is all available on line. Grades Class attendance counts 30% and discussion list participation and quality count 70%. © 2015 |