Unit information: Sports and Societies in South America: 1860-1930 in 2023/24

Unit name	Sports and Societies in South America: 1860-1930
Unit code	HISP30097
Credit points	20
Level of study	H/6
Teaching block(s)	Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24)
Unit director	Professor. Brown
Open unit status	Not open
Units you must take before you take this one (pre-requisite units)	None
Units you must take alongside this one (co-requisite units)	None
Units you may not take alongside this one	None
School/department	Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
Faculty	Faculty of Arts

Unit Information

This unit explores South American history during the period known to historians as ‘the birth of the modern world’. It explores the profound changes in South American culture and society in the period when the continent was rapidly inserted into the global economy, focusing in particular on the relationship between popular culture, sports, and nation-building. The unit explores indigenous and colonial games, as well as the formation of the first modern sporting clubs in the continent, and concludes with the organization of the first men’s football World Cup in Uruguay in 1930. Students will explore several sources in detail and will analyse them within their political and historical contexts.

Unit aims

• Provide students with the conceptual and contextual knowledge to analyse the historical developments of sports in South America, and to help them understand where the contemporary politics, cultures and economics of sports emerged from.
• Introduce students to the sources, methods, and concepts that have underpinned new approaches to sports history.
• Prepare students for undertaking independent advanced-level research in the sports history of South America.

Your learning on this unit

On successful completion of this unit students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate a high level of understanding of the global, international, national and local historical processes that shaped the course of South American history;
2. interpret cultural texts and historical events through a historical approach that privileges close reading and historical contextualisation;
3. display the ability to express their knowledge and understanding of the subject in written form to a standard appropriate to level H
4. produce creative and critical work, showing in-depth engagement with primary sources.
5. work independently, formulating and developing their own projects

How you will learn

Teaching will be delivered through a combination of synchronous and asynchronous sessions, including group seminar-style discussion and self-directed exercises.

How you will be assessed

1 x 2500-word creative critical source analysis (50%), testing ILOs 1-2, 4-5.

1 x 2500-word essay (50%), testing ILOs 1-3.

Resources

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How much time the unit requires
Each credit equates to 10 hours of total student input. For example a 20 credit unit will take you 200 hours of study to complete. Your total learning time is made up of contact time, directed learning tasks, independent learning and assessment activity.

See the University Workload statement relating to this unit for more information.

Assessment
The Board of Examiners will consider all cases where students have failed or not completed the assessments required for credit. The Board considers each student's outcomes across all the units which contribute to each year's programme of study. For appropriate assessments, if you have self-certificated your absence, you will normally be required to complete it the next time it runs (for assessments at the end of TB1 and TB2 this is usually in the next re-assessment period).
The Board of Examiners will take into account any exceptional circumstances and operates within the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.