Each student will present on the specific topic or issue they wrote about in their research essay. Each presentation will be no longer than 7 minutes and will be no shorter than 5 minutes.
Each presentation will critically articulate a current event, team, celebrity, organization, or other aspect of contemporary sport culture. To do this, you will need to offer an interpretive analysis of the social, economic, or political problems created by this site of analysis. In other words, the aim of each presentation is to develop a thesis which suggests or implicates a social problem acting upon, or through, popular sport; and builds upon that central claim to create a thorough interrogation of how this sporting phenomenon adversely shapes social attitudes, creates divisive ideologies, perpetuates uneven commercial relations, or engenders oppression of some kind. You will use your presentation, like your essay, to create a series of arguments (based on research), and integrate both theoretical frameworks and real world examples to support your assertions. In short, you will respond to the following prompt: “how does one unique sporting phenomenon adversely/critically influence social, cultural, and/or economic relations in contemporary U.S. (or elsewhere) society?”
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