ENG-172 Sports & Literature
This course studies different genres of sports literature, such as fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, as well as the literary elements and writer's craft used to create these literary works. As an object of literary study, sporting contests, spectacles, and athletes themselves, provide authors rich characters and complex scenes to explore themes about cultural values, social roles, and also personal struggle and success. Throughout the semester, students will examine literature connected to such sports as ice hockey, baseball, basketball, tennis, wrestling, and rodeo, to look deeply into not only human nature, but also how stories about sports may transcend the sport itself.