UNDERSTANDING THE UNITED STATES THROUGH BASEBALL

Credit Hours: 3 · Undergraduate Lower-Level

This is a course that uses the game of baseball as a prism through which to understand a complicated last 150 years of US history. It is a course about the place of baseball in American society and how the game both reflected and shaped/influenced American society. We will examine issues of economic growth and the rise of modern sport, race, gender, class, immigration, suburbanization, urban planning, capitalism, globalization and personal and community identity in American history using baseball as our analytical lens.