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Undergraduate Minor: Sport and American Culture (SAMC)

This 18-credit interdisciplinary minor is offered jointly by the School of Recreation, Health, and Tourism and the Department of History and Art History. Students must take two required and four elective courses (two from Sport Management and two from History). This minor is available to all Mason undergraduate students. Eight credits must be unique to the minor.

More information is available about this interdisciplinary minor through the Sport and American Culture website.

Required courses (6 credits)

  • SPMT 304 - Sport, Culture, and Society (3 credits)
  • HIST 389 - Topics in U.S. History: History of Sport in America (3 credits)

Two Sport Management Elective courses (6 credits) chosen from:

  • SPMT 321 - America Through Baseball (3 credits)
  • SPMT 322 - Football and American Culture (3 credits)
  • SPMT 323 - America and the Modern Olympics (3 credits)

Two History Elective courses (6 credits) chosen from:

  • HIST 389 - Topics in U.S. History (3 credits)
  •    African-American Experience in Modern American Sport
  •    Gender and Twentieth-Century Capital American Sport
  •    The Growth of American Entertainment and Sport

For more information about this minor, contact:

  • Dr. David Wiggins
  • Director, Recreation, Health & Tourism
  • 703-993-2057
  • dwiggins@gmu.edu