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 and in the professional life.

TEACHING METHODS

The lectures will mostly be frontal, but there will be in-depth videos and moments of self-assessment of learning via wooclap in each meeting.

The modality is in presence.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The world of sports practice and its interaction with society starting from the first Mesopotamian civilizations up to the contemporary age. In particular, the history of sport will be addressed to:

• the classical era;
• the Middle Ages;
• the modern age;
• 19th century Europe and the United States;
• the 20th century, with particular reference to totalitarianisms and the editions of the modern Olympics.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

The teacher provides materials useful for home study.

Further optional books are:

• 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.