Unit 1 Sports in the Ancient Greece and Rome
Text A Sport culture in ancient Athens and Sparta
Text B The gladiators of Rome: blood sport in the ancient empire
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Unit 2 Sport in Medieval & Pre-modern Era
Text A Sports in the Medieval Times
Text B Humanism movement & sport culture
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Unit 3 Emergence of Modern Sport in Europe
Text A The factors that affect the modern sport
Text B Modern sport and education
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Unit 4 Rise & Expansion of the Modern Olympics
Text A The philosophy connotation of modern Olympics
Text B The expansion of Olympics: Western culture's domination
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Unit 5 European Sport in Globalization Era
Text A A football world: The history and its globalization
Text B Why are the European and American sports worlds so different?
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Unit 6 Sport from Colonization to Antebellum
Text A Sports in colonial era
Text B The health reform during the early republic period
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Unit 7 The Forming of American Sport in the Gilded Age
Text A Baseball v. cricket: the rise of American ideology
Text B The rise & development of intercollegiate sport
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Unit 8 Sport and Social Change in the Progressive Era
Text A Sport & americanization of ethnic groups
Text B Sport & colonialism
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Unit 9 Sport as Popular Culture
Text A Media & the commercialization of sport
Text B Professional sport & labor relations
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Unit 10 Major Problems of Sport and Society
Text A Sport and civil rights movement
Text B Sport and women's movement
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Unit 11 New Forms of Sport in 21st Century
Text A Sociology of alternative sports
Text B A comparison between esports and traditional Sports
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