This course is designed to help students explore culture, race, ethnicity, gender, social issues and human psychology through the lens of athletics. In this exploration students will be tasked with developing an awareness and set of skills that will better prepare them for engaging with some of the contemporary societal issues in our world today. This course is propelled by the constructivist learning model in that students will be challenged to analyze and synthesize various types of sources and information in order to develop critical thinking skills across multiple modalities.