HIST 480 - Baseball in the United States and the Caribbean

History of baseball in society and culture in the US and Caribbean. Focus on the tension between urban and rural values, the relationship between business and labor, cultural assimilation, racial segregation and integration, the globalization of sport, and diversity and inclusion.

Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area C requirements; and junior standing or above.
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 with grade C- (CR) or better.
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online Asynchronous or Online Synchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-C - Upper Division Arts or Humanities, Overlay - Diversity
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently


Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
 

1. Investigate the history of sport and baseball as space of cultural expression and contestation;
2. Analyze diverse racial, ethnic, and religious identities expressed by baseball players and audiences;
3. Examine gender identity and lived experiences in baseball leagues over time; 
4. Analyze globalization in the context of the sport of baseball, using Major League Baseball as a case study; 
5. Reflect upon the practice and experiece of diversity and inclusion in the history of baseball in the United States and the Caribbean. 

1. demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply the principles, methodologies, value systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities;
2. analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human; and
3. demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts and humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.

1. describe the histories and/or experiences of one or more U. S. cultural groups and the resilience and agency of group members;
2. identify structures of oppression and the diverse efforts and strategies used by groups to combat the effects of oppressive structures;
3. analyze the intersection of the categories of race and gender as they affect cultural group members’ lived realities and/or as they are embodied in personal and collective identities;
4. recognize the way that multiple differences (including, for example, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, gender expression, color/phenotype, racial mixture, linguistic expression, and/or age) within cultural groups complicate individual and group identities.