Martial Arts Cultural Sport
Students will explore a cultural sport production (sport/game/human movement) of a nation linked to the students’ personal ethnicities and histories. Students will develop: 1) overview of national history, 2) overview the rules of the sport/game and its historical importance, 3) overview of the cultural importance of the sport, 4) overview expressions of cultural values in sport/game/human movement, 5) explore how this cultural product has influenced their personal/familial sport experiences and sport identities, and 6) its relation to and impact on US sport/games/human movement
- Introduction (1/2-1 pg)
- Optional – cite an interesting quote
- Intro sentences to topic and paper
- Statement of purpose (what you will write about and discuss do in the paper)
- Goals of paper
- Definition of terms if applicable (Stress, racism, sexism, ageism, etc…whichever terms you will be using in your paper and fit into the experiences you are discussing in the paper
- Layout structure and organization of paper information
2. Overview the Nation (1/2 – 1 pg)
- Brief history, overview of larger cultural values and sport history
3. Overview the Sport (1/2 – 1 pg)
- Rules, history, organizations
4. Expressions of Cultural Values (1 page)
- Describe and analyze the sport (this could be a specific situation, or many situations related to identities: race, sexual orientation, ageism, disability, ethnicity, occupational, religion, and/or class)
- Sociocultural influences
- Relate to journal articles, which discuss/relate/contradict in some fashion, the general nature the sport experience(s)
5. Relationship to Personal Cultural Background (1 pg)
- Describe the situation(s) or experience(s) – yet focus on larger issues and context – less play-by-play
- Explore values expressed in that sport and your family, person, and sporting choices
- How the values of that sport have affected you
- Compare and contrast your experiences and understandings of sport with research, class text, larger popular cultural occurrences
6. Summary/Conclusion (1 pg)
- Summarize the main content of paper
- Wrap up main themes of paper
- Suggest possible intervention(s) and/or social actions
- re-Reference any journal materials
- Final thoughts and looking forward