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PLSC 401: The Comparative Politics of Soccer

Political Science · 4 credits

This course will comparatively examine the political impact of soccer (formally known as Association Football), the world’s most popular sport. Soccer is played around the globe both uniting and dividing people on all continents and nations revealing, strengthening, and weakening identities. However, identity is not the only political or social concept that can be highlighted and studied through soccer. In fact, soccer is an excellent lens to examine and understand a great many of the key concepts of comparative politics, such as: Institutions, inequality, gender representation, various forms of violence, regional, ethnic, and religious divisions, secession, state recognition, global migration, human rights, processes of globalization, diplomacy, dictatorship, corruption, propaganda, imperialism/colonialism, fascism and anti-fascism, racism and anti-racism, democracy, civil society, and more.

Offered in 2 of the 26 listed terms (Winter 2025 to Winter 2027).

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PLSC 250 or PLSC 261 or PLSC 271 or PLSC 291 or PLSC 366 or PLSC 433 or PLSC 434

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