Students will be summatively assessed by two pieces of work:

1. A mid-module assignment of 2000 words, assessing learning outcomes 3 and 4
2. An end of module seen examination of 120 minutes, assessing learning outcomes 1 and 2

Additional Assessment Details (include formative feedback / assessment):

Students must achieve an overall mark of GP4 and a minimum GP2 in each element of assessment to pass the module .

Students will be provided with formative assessment and feedback via: directed independent learning tasks on a weekly basis, activities and discussion in seminars and the opportunity to attend one-to-one tutorials.

Cashmore, E. (2010) Making Sense of Sports, 5th Edition. London: Routledge
Giulianotti, R. (2005) Sport: A Critical Sociology. Oxford: Polity.

Appropriately and adequately equipped lecture theatre
Appropriately and adequately equipped seminar room
Appropriately and adequately stocked library facilities
Internet access sufficient to access Blackboard

Contact hours:(48)
24 x 1 hour tutor-led lectures
24 x 1 hour student-led seminars

Independent Study Hours: (252)
180 hours assigned reading (equivalent to one day a week for 24 weeks - tasks/reading will be set on a weekly basis for the duration of the module)
72 hours preparation for both forms of assessment (this includes drafting work, researching, reading and liaising with tutors via one-to-one tutorials)

The module will allow students to enhance and develop their understanding of the cultural meaning and significance that sport has in society by:

1. Focusing on the application of sociological approaches to sport ¿ i.e. putting theory into sporting practice (past and present) such as globalisation theory and examples of this in practice (such as in the Olympic Games)
2. Evaluating the significance of historical developments when explaining contemporary sport
3. The historical development of sport from the Greeks, through the enlightenment period and culminating what we experience in modern day sport
4. Analysing selected historical developments in sport such as education, media, social class, industrialisation, public schools, amateurism and gender and how they impacted on the growth of sport in the nineteenth and twentieth century
5. Analysing a range of research methodologies covered in the sociology of sport on particular topic areas such as masculinity, race and globalisation and examine how they can help answer particular research questions/areas of social significance
6. Evaluating the relationship between sport, power and culture from evidence-based research