Assignment Directions:
1. For this assignment, please respond to the following questions in a 1-2 page paper. Please use 12-point, Times New Roman font. Please double-space your answer.
2. AI user: Please note that for this assignment, you may use Grammarly or other spell or grammar check software. Please do not use ChatGPT or other generative AI resources to compose your replies. I don't care what generative AI program thinks, but I do care what you think.
Question Prompts:
Q1. Please watch the video: "Sports can start meaningful conversations" with Dr. Andy Billings. After watching the video, please share your reaction to his message that sports may be a great way to engage others in conversation about topics difficult to discuss. Do you agree? If so, why? If not, why not? Need Assignment Help?
Q2. As you discuss your course schedule for this semester with a friend, they ask "Why are you taking sociology of sport and physical activity class? I'm not sure how this course will help you in the future." In your response to your friend, identify two (2) ways the content of this course might be useful to you in the future, either personally and/or professionally.
Q3. As we discussed in class, sports are contested activities. In review, this means that people have differing ideas about what sports could and should be in society, and they struggle over whose ideas will prevail as they collectively create various forms of sports. Identify 2-3 contested issues over which people have struggled in recent years as they make decisions and official policies on sports in your communities.