- Teacher: Dawn Hiscock
- Teacher: Ian Stephens
This course will examine various aspects of the relationship between sport & society in Spain. We will examine both the impact of sport on Spanish society and the influence of society on the pratice of sport in Spain.
The course begins with a consideration of general theoretical questions in the study of sport before moving on to an account of the historical development of sports. The impact of social institutions on sports is examined in sections on the economy and media. We consider the ways in which sport can be used by governments as a political tool and examine the reciprocal influeneces of sport on violence, gender, race and ethnic and national identities in Spain.
The course begins with a consideration of general theoretical questions in the study of sport before moving on to an account of the historical development of sports. The impact of social institutions on sports is examined in sections on the economy and media. We consider the ways in which sport can be used by governments as a political tool and examine the reciprocal influeneces of sport on violence, gender, race and ethnic and national identities in Spain.
This course seeks to examine the relationship between Church and State in Spain as a strategy to explore current political discussions, such as debates about citizenship and immigration. Students will be invited to question not only Spain's definitions of "religious diversity," "secularism," and "freedom of conscience," but also Catalonia's positions as well. From Isabella and Ferdinand's conception of the Catholic Empire to the November, 2007, law recognizing Buddhism as a legal religious tradition in Spain, this course hopes to provide the historical background to current debates about Spain's notion of "secularism." Topics will include religious identity, migrant religion, secularism, religious pluralism, and multiculturalism. Some lived-religion method and theory will be presented as well.
In a world characterised by the increasing openness of borders for capitals, goods and services, the free movement of people remains a strongly contested issue. Different from commodities, human beings carry with them their own worldviews (knowledge, values, attitudes) while crossing borders, contrasting with those of the societies that receive them. The final consequence of migratory flows is (not always peaceful) social change that transform both the receiving and the sending societies. The purpose of this course is to analyse contemporary migration processes; framing them in their economic, social, cultural and political context; and trying to review the impact of those processes at the individual as well as the aggregated (social) level.