This course examines the confluence of an increasingly globalized sport culture and industry, the evolving Sport-for-Development and Peace (SDP) movement, and calls for more critically aware and socially just, programming in sport, physical education, and public health.
Terms Offered
Fall 2025
Course Details
This Global Classrooms course examines the confluence of an increasingly globalized sport culture and industry, the evolving Sport-for-Development and Peace (SDP) movement, and calls for more critically aware and socially just, programming in sport, physical education, and public health. As a problems-based course, students at the University of Maryland (College Park) and the University of the West Indies (UWI-Jamaica) will connect virtually in a shared process of investigating the delivery of sport, fitness, recreation, and health/wellness programming in their local communities. Close attention is paid to building solidarities through activities that refine capacities for active listening, self-reflexivity, and socio-historically contextualized critical thinking. Applying these skills in forms of local outreach, students will use their voice in the creation and/or reformulation of programs serving the sporting, health, and recreation needs of local populations in Jamaica and the US.
This is a
Number of credits: 3
Cultural Connection
Jamaica
General Education Credits
None
School/College
School of Public Health
Prerequisites & Restrictions
Prerequisite: KNES287
Recommended: KNES346
Faculty Highlight
Ronald L. Mower
Ron Mower is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research is concerned with critical examinations of social injustice within sport, physical culture, and society with publications in the Sociology of Sport Journal, Leisure Sciences, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Sport, Education, and Society. As the creator and Director of the Action Assemblage for Justice, Equity, and Peace (AAJEP), Ron is actively engaged in student organizing and solidarity building, self-reflexive dialogic learning communities, and boundary crossing research and service-learning collaborations for the public good.
Tuition & Scholarship
Course costs should be calculated based on the university’s standard tuition and fees for undergraduate students and graduate students.
Students enrolled in winter and summer Global Classrooms courses may be eligible for the International Education Scholarship.
Questions & Contact Info
For more course information, contact Ronald Mower at mower1@umd.edu.
For general questions, please contact the Global Classrooms team at globalclassrooms@umd.edu.