Weekly Syllabus

Week of Monday, December 5 through Friday, December 9

This week we will continue to study the issues surrounding racial integration of amateur and professional sports.  You will each read articles covering the period from the mid-1940's through the early 1970's, and then at the end of the week we will all study an article dealing with the late 1960's.   Hopefully the wide ranging material will help you come up with a topic for this week's blog post!

Monday, December 5, 2011 (40 min)

Topic:  Debriefing from the blog assignment.  Discussion of the plan for the week and distribution of the first set of articles.

Homework: Read your article and take notes.

Tuesday, December 6, 2011 (50 min)

Topic: Video clip about Bill Russell and race relations in basketball in the 1950's and 1960's.

Homework: Continue reading.

Wednesday, December 7, 2011 (35 min)--NO CLASS TODAY

Topic: I won't be in class today.  Please use the class time to post key points about your article on the Ning. Tomorrow we will have another "round-table" discussion about the reading.

Homework: Prepare for the roundtable discussion.  Also, it would be good to begin thinking of ideas for this week's blog post.

Thursday, December 8, 2011 (50 min)

Topic: Roundtable discussion of the reading.

Homework: Read "It’s Not Really My Country”: Lew Alcindor and the Revolt of the Black Athlete.  pp. 223-234.

 

Friday, December 9, 2011 (45 min)

Topic: Discussion of the reading.

Homework: Finish the Lew Alcindor article.  Also complete your next blog post by Sunday night.