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Bergen Community College
Division of Arts, Humanities and Wellness
Department of Wellness/Exercise Science
Course Syllabus
WEX-124 Issues and Trends in Sports
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Course Description
WEX-124 Issues and Trends in Sports is designed to address the issues and trends happening in sports
today. It includes historical analysis, instructional perspective, and political influences regarding trends
and issues. Current events in the media will be used as case studies to identify their impact in both the
sporting world as well as on society.
3 lectures, 3 credits
No prerequisites
Student Learning Outcomes: As a result of meeting the requirements in this course, students will be
able to:
1. Identify and define current issues facing sports today.
2. Interpret and analyze data and trends to enhance sport management skills.
3. Employ critical thinking skills to construct solutions to today’s top issues facing sport.
4. Identify critical issues facing both youth and women sports.
Student Learning Outcomes and Means of Assessment
Student Learning Outcomes Suggested Means of Assessment
Identify and define current issues facing sports
today.
Students will give a presentation showcasing an
issue facing sports today. The presentation will
consist of an issue and multiple solutions to this
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issue.
1. The student will prepare a 15 minute Power
Point presentation
2. The student will also submit a 5 page research
paper when they give their presentation.
Interpret and analyze data and trends to enhance
sport management skills.
Students will be able to identify current and past
trends in sports, verbally and in writing.
Employ critical thinking skills to construct solutions
to today’s top issues facing sport.
Students will demonstrate knowledge of all aspects
and populations involved in sports today, by
conducting a case study on a current sports trend.
Identify critical issues facing both youth and women
sports.
Students will analyze critical issues facing both
youth and women in sports in a research paper.
Course Content
A. What is Sport, and why do we study it?
B. Factors affecting both participants and spectators.
C. The history and current status of youths in sports.
D. The historic role of women and sports, both before and after Title IX.
E. Athletes and the Olympics.
F. Sporting behavior at different levels of sport.
G. Deviance and Sports including; violence, performance enhancing drug, eating disorders and
gambling.
H. Influence of coaches on different levels.
I. What are the future trends and issues facing sports?
Special Features of the Course (if any) [to be designated by the instructor]
E.g., the use of learning technologies in the course (Internet, PowerPoint, web enhancement via a parallel
course website, etc.); the inclusion of technological literacy learning in the course; etc.
Course Texts and/or Other Study Materials
Woods, Ronald B. Social Issues in Sport – 2nd Edition. Human Kinetics, 2011
Alternative textbooks or resources can be used by individual faculty with permission of the wellness
discipline textbook committee. The Faculty Senate “Policy on the Selection of Texts and Other
Instructional Materials,” states that “individual faculty members and/or departments should strive to select
texts, whenever possible, that are most affordable for students.”
Grading Policy
A student's final grade for the course is based primarily on his or her performance on the required work
for the course (writing assignments, examinations, class presentations, etc.) and on his or her overall
mastery of the material covered in the course. A student's class participation may also be evaluated, and
the grade thereon may be used as a factor in determining the student's final grade for the course; but a
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class participation grade will count for no more than twenty percent (20%) of the final grade. A student's
research and writing work will count at least forty percent (40%) of the final grade.
Attendance Policy
BCC Attendance Policy:
All students are expected to attend punctually every scheduled meeting of each course in which they are
registered. Attendance and lateness policies and sanctions are to be determined by the instructor for
each section of each course. These will be established in writing on the individual course outline.
Attendance will be kept by the instructor for administrative and counseling purposes.
Attendance Policy in this Course:
[To be designated by the instructor]
Other College, Divisional, and/or Departmental Policy Statements [optional but recommended]
Examples:
Statement on plagiarism and/or academic dishonesty.
ADA statement.
Sexual Harassment statement.
Statement on acceptable use of BCC technology.
Statement on the purpose and value of faculty office hours.
Student and Faculty Support Services [optional but recommended]
List support services, e.g., the Writing Center, the Math Lab, the Tutorial Center, Online Writing Lab
(OWL), Office of Specialized Services, etc. Include information on the BCC Library.
Course Calendar
Week Topic(s)
1 Orientation
2 What is Sport and why do we study it?
3 Participants versus Spectators
4 Youth Sports
5 Women in Sports
6 Women in Sports (Continued)
7 Olympic Movement
8 Midterm Exam
9 Sports Behavior
10 Deviance and Sports
11 Coaching and Sport
12 Future Trends in Sport
13 Presentations
14 Presentations (Continued)
15 Final Exam