Mondays, 1:00-3:00, Maxwell Dworkin 123
Week 1, February 2: The Goals of Undergraduate Education
Reading: Lewis, pp. 21-72
Week 2, February 9:Athletics as practiced in ancient Greece and Victorian England
Readings: Smith, 3-12; Young, 7-88, 115-127 (skip the footnotes!); Lewis, 213-224
*** February 16 [no class, holiday]
Week 3, February 23: Harvard and the History of College Sports
Readings: Smith 13-37, 67-98, 118-146, 165-174; Lewis 224-241
Week 4, March 2: The Olympics Go Professional (Guest: Bill Cleary, Harvard hockey player, coach, and AD, and Olympic silver medalist in 1956 and gold medalist in 1960)
Readings: Guttman 1-20, 53-71, 103-104, 125-163
Week 5, March 9: Regulation: The NCAA and the Ivy League (Guest: Robert Scalise, Harvard Athletic Director)
Readings: Lewis, 224-252; Shulman and Bowen, 1-28; excerpts from NCAA and Ivy manuals (distributed in class 3/2)
Week 6, March 16: The Sports Business (Guest: Professor Stephen Greyser, Harvard Business School)
*** March 23 [no class, spring recess]
Week 7, March 30: Athletics in Selective Colleges (Guest: Bill Fitzsimmons, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, Harvard College)
Week 8, April 6: Big-Time College Sports and the Media (Guest: John Powers, Sports journalist, Boston Globe)
Week 9, April 13: Reform? Guest: author and professor Murray Sperber
Week 10, April 20: Field Trip: Boston Marathon
Week 11, April 27: Women's athletics: the last amateurs? (Guest: Patricia Henry, Associate Athletic Director, Harvard)
Week 12: May 4: Student presentations I
Week 13: May 11: Student presentations II