Læringsutbytte

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge: On completion of the course, students should have a good knowledge of: the key research themes and debates on the social and cultural dimensions of sport, such as on social divisions, identity, and global processes; and, how these themes and debates relate to culture, cultural production, and cultural politics. Students should know about the main theories and methods, and key substantive and empirical studies, within these fields of research.

Skills: After completing the course, students should be able to apply their knowledge and skills from the course in order to identify, explore and solve new problems and issues in sport and to culture. These skills may involve the use of creative, logical and intuitive thinking, or may be more practical, in terms of using particular methods and tools of research.

Competence: In EQF competence is defined in terms of responsibility and autonomy. It is of particular importance that PhD-students will have an improved scholarly ability to carry out their own research projects and take part in public and academic debates. The course is particularly intended to stimulate innovative and creative perspectives on sport and culture.

Innhold

The PhD course will give 10 credits (ECTS) and the curriculum is approximately 1,000 pages (see below). Proposed curriculum content will include the following themes and issues:

- Sport, cultural politics and cultural identities; how can we compare sport politics, conflicts, symbols and identities with other cultural spheres?

- Sport and globalization; how can we compare, for example, sport mega-events, or sport and development projects, in different cultural contexts?

- Sport, economy and media in different cultural contexts

- Sport, the body and the environment in different cultural contexts

- Sport and socio-cultural ‘problems’ e.g. doping, violence, exclusion

- Research methods for studying sport

The course will feature one major overarching theme (e.g. sport and globalization), with a variety of sub-themes (e.g. sport and gender, sport and the body, sport and the environment).

Arbeids- og læringsformer

Teaching and Work Forms:

The main teaching component of the course will consist of a full five days of lectures (by academic staff from participating universities) and seminars (with active contributions from PhD students). Each PhD student should present a paper for comment and discussion, and participate actively in seminar discussions. Academic staff will primarily be the supervisors of the PhD students, and will be responsible for assessing the final essays that are submitted by these PhD students.

Time Schedule and Venues:

The course will feature one teaching session over one week in Telemark and possibly in one other location in spring 2015.

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Pedagogical Organization:

Seminar participants will spend five working days together, consisting of lectures, paper presentations, discussion and supervision. Students will be required to submitted a scientific essay; when assessed and graded as a ‘pass’, a diploma will be issued.

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