FPF:UHVD3449 Social history of sport - Course Information

UHVD3449 Social history of sport

Extent and Intensity

0/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

doc. Mgr. Martin Pelc, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

doc. Mgr. Martin Pelc, Ph.D.
Institute of Historical Sciences – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava

Timetable of Seminar Groups

UHVD3449/A: Mon 9:45–11:20 M123-1, M. Pelc

Prerequisites

work with English texts

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• History (programme FPF, N7105 HiVe)
• History - Museology (programme FPF, N7105 HiVe)
• Cultural History (programme FPF, N7105 HiVe)
• Secondary School Teacher Training in History (programme FPF, N7504 UcSS)

Course objectives

The seminar focuses on the history of modern sport that was formed mainly in England since the end of the 18th cnetury by a codification of rules. The course should give methodological tools to deal sport as a serious historical issue, as an important modern social phenomenon. The students will learn about the sources as well as contemporary ways of research in sports history abroad. Some aspects of sports history will be discussed more profoundly, such as the relations between sports and media, sports and arts etc.

Syllabus

• 1. Mask and Vertigo/ Philosophy of play2
  2. Pre-history of modern sport/Antiquity ? England ? etc.
  3. The brith of modern sport
  4. The continental tradition of physical training: collective and the body
  5. Medialization and commercionalization of sport/ sport and media
  6. Community of play: sport and fans
  7. Exclusive sports?/ the case of lawn-tennis
  8. Plebeian sport?/ the case of football
  9. Sport and politics
  10. Sport as a masculine domain
  11. Sport and art
  12. Sport in the life of a city/ the case of Opava
  13. Everything you always wanted to know about sport (But were afraid to ask)
  

Literature

recommended literature
• Waic, M. (ed.). Češi a Němci ve světě tělovýchovy a sportu - Die Deutschen und Tschechen in der Welt des Turnens un des Sports. Praha 2004. info
• Krátký, F. - Kössl, J. - Marek, J. Dějiny tělesné výchovy. II. díl. Praha 1982. info
• Kolář František. Dokumentace k dějinám českého olympismu. Praha. info
• Eisenberg, C. "English sports" und deutsche Bürger. Eine Gesellschaftsgeschichte 1800-1939. Paderborn - München - Wien - Zürich 1999. info
• Švácha, R. a kol. Naprej. Česká sportovní architektura 1567-2012. Řevnice 2012. info
• Waic, Marek a kol. Německé tělovýchovné a sportovní spolky v českých. info
• Švácha, R. a kol. StArt. Sport jako symbol ve výtvarném umění. Praha 2016. info
• Bosák, E. a kol. Stručný přehled vývoje sportovních odvětví v Československu. I. díl Praha 1969. info
• Roubal, P. Československé spartakiády. Praha 2016. 2016. info
• Marek Waic. Tělovýchova a sport ve službách české národní emancipace. Praha, 2013. info
• Pope S. W./Nauright John. Routledge companion to sports history. London/New York, 2010. info
• Pelc Martin. Struktury opavského sportu. Opava, 2009. info
• Děkanovský, J. Sport, média a mýty. Praha, 2008. info
• Nolte Claire Elaine. The Sokol in the Czech Lands to 1914. Training for the Nation. Basingstoke, 2002. info
• Caillois Roger. Hry a lidé. Maska a závrať. Praha, 1998. info
• Fink Eugen. Hra jako symbol světa. Praha, 1993. info
• Fink Eugen. Oáza štěstí. Praha, 1992. info
• Kössl Jiří. Dějiny československého olympijského hnutí. Praha, 1977. info
• OLIVOVÁ, V. Lidé a hry. Praha, 1977. info

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.

Teacher's information

* Minimum 80% presence
* active cooperation / work with selected texts
* delivering a presentation on an assigned topic
* passing of a test

• Enrolment Statistics (Summer 2022, recent)
  
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