The purpose of this website is to serve as a teaching and learning vehicle for students and the instructor in courses on sports taught at Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut) by Prof. Luis Figueroa–Martínez.
The crowd at a Spanish “La Liga” football game during the pre-game ceremony. Source: nye.com (public domain)
Originally intended to serve this purpose for a Fall 2013 seminar titled “Sports, Race and Nationalism,” for a variety of reasons it is not until now (January 2014) that I have been able to incorporate it into another course, this time on “Soccer, Race and Nationalism,” that I’m teaching during Trinity’s first J-Term, a three-year curricular experiment at the college.
We invite everyone to explore the topics examined in the course and the ideas expressed by its students.
As a two-week daily course extending from January 6th to January 17th, 2014, students will be posting mainly two types of blog articles: responses to the daily readings, called PCQs (“Preliminary Comments and Questions”), and very brief but useful TIFO pieces (“Things I Found Online”) covering a variety of themes each student chose to follow during this two-week period.
The course and its blogging will culminate with the publishing of the students’ final papers by Sunday night, January 19th. Shortly after that I will publish some final reflections on my experiences teaching this course.
Usage of the blog will then be intermittent until I teach again sports studies courses in academic year 2014–2015.
Finally, please feel free to submit comments to any of the articles. As instructor and blog editor, I will review all submitted comments before their publication to ensure that they are consistent with the scholarly perspectives on sports explored by students in my courses.