Title

HIST2600 - History of Baseball

API ID

Credits

3 (3/0/0)

Description

Meets MnTC Goal Area 5. This course covers the history of American baseball, from its origins through the modern era. The course explores professionalism, labor relations and the relationship between baseball and the growth of urban cities in the 19th and 20th centuries. Issues of race, class and gender are also addressed, as well as how the game has intersected with politics, economics and social change in American life.

Competencies

  1. Contrast various theories about the origins of the rules of baseball.
  2. Analyze the development of professional play.
  3. Analyze the connections between urbanization and baseball.
  4. Examine labor relations in baseball.
  5. Explain how technology and science have influenced the game.
  6. Examine the role of race relations in baseball.
  7. Describe gender relations in the game.
  8. Explore the international growth of the game.
  9. Communicate effectively using historical evidence and methods of analysis.
  10. Examine the role of socio-economic class in how the game has been played and organized.
  11. Assess the economic forces that have influenced and shaped the game.

Goal Areas

5. History and the Social and Behavioral Sciences