1. Group Project GENERAL GUIDELINES

2. Project Components  Paper (10 points max)  Minimum of 10 pages (APA format)  Grading evaluation of paper will consider:  Content: must address all required elements listed in “General Guidelines”  Writing should be/should possess:  grammatically sound  effectively ordered/implement transitions  persuasive  absent hyperbole and cliche  Presentation (10 points max)  No slide limit  However, there exists time limits:  Minimum of 10 minutes  Maximum of 20 minutes  All required project elements need to be addressed within presentation and captured on slides  Should reflect group project paper

3. Event/Topic Selection  Event must be:  A current sports event  “current” means occurring as recently as the past month prior to presentation date  Related to a chapter topic within our Sports in Society textbook  Approved by the course instructor

4. Project Elements  Must examine event through the concepts of:  Culture  Social interaction  Social structure  Must provide all relevant background  Present the general story  Must present various ways that media positions event; utilizing information/research the textbook provides  Must provide specific practitioner examples, media sources, and positions  Encouraged to pull from additional academic resources to supplement justifications for interpretations/positions  Must identify various social world impacted by event  Must provide differing perspectives of event with equal support  Must provide perceived implications associated with event depending on social worlds and perspectives held  Develop conclusion by considering any management/sport world (social world) implications last, with group recommendation(s) on strategies taken to encourage or discourage effect(s) of particular event within your operational social world(s)

5. Group Selection / Scheduling Group Parameters/Selection  Groups can have no more than five members, and no less than four  Group members must secure approval for a sport event no earlier than a month (four weeks), and no later than three weeks before its presentation date Scheduling to Present  Once groups are established, date selection order will be drawn at random  Groups can select one of three dates to present  9/9, 10/14, 11/11  No more than three groups per presentation date