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University of Alberta Calendar 2017-2018 [ARCHIVED CALENDAR]

PERLS 507 - Sport and Popular Culture

★ 3 (fi 6) (either term, 0-3s-0) An examination of the place of sport in contemporary Canadian popular culture, with three principal aims: 1) To offer an introduction to Cultural Studies and its key concepts; 2) To give students a chance to think about how social difference and inequality work in contemporary Canadian society, and how it is reflected in the world of sport and leisure; and 3) To examine the effects of both cultural and economic globalization on sport and Canadian society.