Ethics of Sports: Do Sports Morally Matter?
Hamilton College
  • Start Date: 18 Oct, 2016
  • Self-Paced
  • Study Content: Videos


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Course Fee: Free
Certificate Cost: 49.00 USD

Course Description

This course is made available through the eLearnAfrica and Edx partnership.

While sport sometimes is dismissed as frivolous, it not only raises fundamental ethical questions, such as what counts as fair play, but is an important cultural phenomenon attracting the interests of millions of people around the globe. Love sports or hate them, their cultural role or influence cannot easily be dismissed.


In this course, we will explore some of the fundamental ethical issues raised by sport, ranging from investigation of the nature of sports to see what values, if any, sports do and should promote and the educational significance of sports especially in higher education in the U.S, violence in sports, gender equity in sports, and the ethics of using performance enhancing drugs.


We hope that through brief lectures on videos, hearty debate in the discussion board, interactive media, and some selected readings to promote not only better understanding of the ethics of sport, but also appreciation for the role of reasoned discourse in advancing our understanding of ethical issues and how to approach them.

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Hamilton College

Hamilton is one of the nation’s oldest and most highly regarded liberal arts colleges. It is comprised of 1,850 students from nearly all 50 states and approximately 40 countries. The College is distinguished by a rigorous open curriculum, a need-blind admission policy, a deeply committed faculty who welcome close collaboration with students, and a focus on preparing students to engage with their communities and effect change. Fundamental to a Hamilton education is the faculty’s expectation that each student develops the ability to read, observe and listen with critical perception, and to think, write and speak with clarity, understanding and precision. Hamilton graduates can be found making important contributions in nearly every professional field, and because of the College’s contributions to their success, alumni remain enthusiastically loyal.

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