Faculty of
Health Sciences
School of Kinesiology
The University of Western
Ontario
Kin 263 F
Canadian Sport History -
Fall 2005
Dr Don Morrow
Tues 1:30-2:45 # 3250 3M Ctre
South Valley Building # 338; phone: 661-4128 Thurs 1:30-2:45 # 3250 3M Ctre
Office Hours: by
appointment
e-mail: donmor@uwo.ca
Course Website: http://instruct.uwo.ca/kinesiology/263f/ Use UWO login & password
Course Textbook: Morrow, Don & Wamsley, Kevin B. Sport
in Canada: A History. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Course Content: The purpose of this course is to provide an overview of issues and
topics related to the history of
sport in Canada. Using the forces of class, gender, and race
as an interpretive basis, the course
will examine sport in New France, British North
America, Post-Confederation Canada,
and the 20th century.
Course Objectives:
~ to provide an historical overview
of Canadian sport history;
~ to provide opportunities for the
discussion of pertinent issues;
~ to develop a critical awareness of
historical problems related to sport in Canada;
~ to provide an opportunity to
develop research and writing skills through an essay assignment.
Course Evaluation:
1.Mid-term, in class examination
(some short answer, at least one essay-style question) Thursday Oct 20th 30%
2.Research Paper; Due: Tuesday
November 15th 40%
3.Final Examination (same format as
mid-term, not cumulative): TBA 30%
Course Schedule and Readings : *** Unless otherwise indicated,
readings are from the course textbook by Morrow & Wamsley *** The source “Reserve (ICOS)” means on reserve at the International Centre
for Olympic Studies located on the 3rd floor of the South Valley
Building.
Week 1 - Introduction, Studying History, Sport, and Culture
Readings: Morrow and Wamsley -
“Introduction”
Week 2 - Sport in Early Canada -
Natives, Colonists
Readings: Morrow and Wamsley –
“Games and Contests in Early Canada”
Week 3 - British North America - Clubs, the Military, and Social Class
Readings: Morrow and Wamsley –
“Games, Pastimes, and Sporting Life in British North America”
Week 4 – Industrialization & the Growth of Organized Sport
Readings: Morrow and Wamsley –
“Transitions to Organized Sport in the Nineteenth Century”
Week 5 - Montreal: The Cradle of Canadian Competitive Sport
Readings: Morrow and Wamsley –
“Control of Sport: The Amateur Ideal and Professionalism”
Week 6 – Organizing Sport in Canada: The New Masculinity
Readings: Morrow - “The Knights of
the Snowshoe” Reserve (ICOS)
Morrow and Wamsley - “Case Studies
in the Growth and Institutionalization of Sport: Lacrosse and Baseball”
Week 7 – The Hero and Canadian Sporting Icon
Readings: Morrow and Wamsley- “Stars
and Heroes: Hanlan, Rubenstein, Cyr, and Scott”
Week 8 – Women, Sport and Exercise
Readings: Morrow and Wamsley –
“Gender, Body, Sport”
Week 9 - Selling Manhood: Violent Sport and Amateurism
Readings: Wamsley and Whitson -
“Celebrating Violent Masculinities” Reserve (ICOS)
Morrow and Wamsley – “Sport and the
National”
Week 10 - Internationalism & the Early Olympic Games
Readings: Morrow and Wamsley – “The
Olympic Games”
Week 11 – Feminizing Women’s Sport – Ideals, Olympics, Examples
Readings: Hall - “Sweetheart
Heroines” Reserve (ICOS)
Week 12 – Professionalism, Hockey and Government Involvement in 20th
Century Canadian Sport
Readings: Gruneau and Whitson - “The
Making of Early Professional Hockey” Reserve (ICOS)
Morrow and Wamsley – “Physical
Education in Canadian Schools and Universities”
*** Please note that you
are responsible for ensuring that you have successfully completed all course
prerequisites, and that you have not taken an anti-requisite course. Lack of a prerequisite or the completion of
an anti-requisite cannot be used as a basis for appeal. If you are found
ineligible for a course, you may be removed from it at any time and you will
not receive and adjustment to your fees. This decision cannot be appealed. ***