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2023-2024 Springfield College Catalog 
    
2023-2024 Springfield College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ENGL 217 - Sports, Gambling and the Media


This course explores gambling as a cultural phenomenon in the United States, focusing particularly on the role of mass media in three major sports gambling scandals: the 1919 Black Sox, boxer Primo Carnera, and point-shaving in college basketball.
Credits: 3

Prerequisites: ENGL 114 - College Writing II  

or

ENGL 160 - Introduction to Literary Studies