This course is designed to integrate the concept of sports and the field of communication at multiple levels. We will be examining sports in terms of how it is impacted by interpersonal communication, group communication, organizational communication, and mass communication. We will explore concepts such as sports fan cultures, gender in sport, race and ethnicity in sport, the performance of identity in sport, communication and sport in parent-child interaction, team communication, and crisis communication is sports organizations. 3 Credits