Learning outcome

After successfully completing the course, the candidate will have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence.

Knowledge

The candidate:

• Has knowledge of research in the field of ​​physical movement, policies and media.
• Has insight into how areas of sport, outdoor recreation and physical education are in different ways related to social institutions, and how this affects the expression and significance of sport, outdoor recreation and physical education.

Skills

The candidate can:

• Analyse complex issues related to physical ​​movement, policies and media, and make these accessible to a research-based approach.

General competence

The candidate:

• Is able through the course, and other instruction in their Masters studies, to conduct research and development within practical pedagogical activities in sport/physical education/outdoor recreation.

Course Description

• Concepts and perspectives in relation to movement, power and the media. Classical social theory, system theory, field theory and critical discourse analysis.
• The role and meaning of sport, outdoor life and physical education in everyday life and society. Activity patterns in sports and outdoor life activities, continuity and change. Reproduction of social inequality. The population’s interest in sports television, online sports, and sports in newspapers and on the radio.
• ‘The Norwegian model’ in the fields of sports and outdoor life recreation. Sports and outdoor life’s institutions and organizations. Visions, instruments, interests and legitimization, volunteerism, professionalism and commercialization.
• Problems concerning sports and outdoor life facilities. Organization and policy tools. Rationality, knowledge and forms of understanding. Distribution of knowledge and power between the players in the field.
• Socio-materials and the use of facilities in relation to rigid meanings and tacit expectations. Experiences and experiences relating to material and situations. The use of facilities in relation to inclusion and exclusion mechanisms.
• Body, movement and space. Consequences for the formation of identity and belonging. The relationship between emotion and reason. What promotes and inhibits interest and participation?
• The Norwegian media. Media power and symbolic power. The status of sports journalism. Stability and change. New constellations and forms of cooperation. The media and late modernity.
• Sports and outdoor life as ‘news’ and ‘entertainment’, their scope and assumptions.
• Tabloidization processes, stereotypes and rhetoric.
• Heroes and scandals. Myths, intimacy and the gendered order.
• Globalisation and postmodernity. The web’s power and agenda issues.
• Power and powerlessness in individuals, institutions, media and society. A summary of the issues.

Teaching and Learning Methods

Roughly 50 hours of lectures in three-four hour blocks during the spring semester.
Lectures, seminars and study/field trips. 75% compulsory attendance.

Assessment Methods

One-week home examination assessed with a grade; counts for 60% of the final grade.
The oral examination assessed with a grade; counts for 40% of the final grade.
The course requires 75 % compulsory attendance.

Minor adjustments may occur during the academic year, subject to the decision of the Dean