LEADERSHIP AND JUSTICE IN SPORTS
Examines the broad landscape of athletics, focusing on matters of human, social, economic, and cultural capital. Draws from prominent books, articles, documentaries, and other sources to develop expanded perspectives and nuanced understandings of leadership and social justice in sports. Specific learning foci include the social, cultural, and historical roles of sports and the traditional and emerging roles of athletes and coaches. Particular attention paid to matters of race, poverty, activism, youth sports, college sports reform, and the leadership that unfolds in these settings.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Cultivate critical reflection on the systems and structures that underlie athletics in the US. Audience: Graduate 2. Deepen historical understandings of the multi-level ways that justice has been contested in and through sports. Audience: Graduate 3. Identify key practices and conditions that cultivate life opportunities in and through sports. Audience: Graduate 4. Articulate processes and models that promote justice in and through sports. Audience: Graduate 5. Promote justice-centered leadership roles and possibilities in sports. Audience: Graduate 6. Build capacity for positively transforming lives, organizations, communities, and perspectives in sports and beyond. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Cultivate critical reflection on the systems and structures that underlie athletics in the US. Audience: Graduate 2. Deepen historical understandings of the multi-level ways that justice has been contested in and through sports. Audience: Graduate 3. Identify key practices and conditions that cultivate life opportunities in and through sports. Audience: Graduate 4. Articulate processes and models that promote justice in and through sports. Audience: Graduate 5. Promote justice-centered leadership roles and possibilities in sports. Audience: Graduate 6. Build capacity for positively transforming lives, organizations, communities, and perspectives in sports and beyond. Audience: Graduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027