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05/10/2025 at 10:30 PM
KNES345
Building International Sport-for-Development Capacities within Jamaican and American Physical Culture & Commerce
Credits: 3
Grad Meth: Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: KNES287.
Recommended: KNES346.
This Global Classrooms course examines the confluence of an increasingly globalized sport culture and industry, the evolving Sport-for-Development and Peace (SDP) movement, and calls for more critically aware and socially just, programming in sport, physical education, and public health. As a problems-based course, students at the University of Maryland (College Park) and the University of the West Indies (UWI-Jamaica) will connect virtually in a shared process of investigating the delivery of sport, fitness, recreation, and health/wellness programming in their local communities. Close attention is paid to building solidarities through activities that refine capacities for active listening, self-reflexivity, and socio-historically contextualized critical thinking. Applying these skills in forms of local outreach, students will use their voice in the creation and/or reformulation of programs serving the sporting, health, and recreation needs of local populations in Jamaica and the US.