LEARNING OUTCOMES

The History of Sport, inserted in an introductory learning module to Physical Education, is a necessary prerequisite to open the student’s horizon to the wide world of sports, from the knowledge of the sport as history presents it.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

• To understand the main issues of the discipline and to follow the events and processes.
• To interpret critically the data and issues relating to the subject of study and reflection on the main topics, forming independent judgments on them.
• To communicate, with command of language, information, and issues related to the history of the sport.
• Acquisition of the main basic tools and the ability to use them so that you can deal autonomously further studies in the subject field.

TEACHING METHODS

Unless different indication due to the evolution of the health situation, the course will take place in a traditional way (in classroom).

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The world of sport and its interaction with the society since the first civilizations of Mesopotamia to the contemporary age.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Materials by the lecturer.

Maria Aiello, Il tempo dello sport, Torino, Edizioni Gruppo Abele, 2014;

Nicola S. Barbieri, Dalla ginnastica allo sport contemporaneo. Lineamenti di storia dell’educazione fisica, Padova, Cluep, 2013;

Domenico Francesco Antonio Elia, Lo sport in Italia. Dal loisir alla pratica, Roma, Carocci, 2009;

Angiola di Carlo, Roberto Bensi, Storia dell’educazione fisica e degli sport. Appunti di lettura, Fano (PU), Aras Edizioni, 2014;

Umberto Tulli, Breve storia dello Olimpiadi. Lo sport, la politica da de Coubertin a oggi, Roma, Carocci, 2012.