CS 39Q:
Priorities Under Pressure: A Critical Assessment of How the University's Core Mission is Affected by Intercollegiate Athletics
Professors Brian Barsky, Margaretta Lovell, and Laura Nader
University of California, Berkeley
Books (Required)
There are two required textbooks. Since we will be reading both in their entirety, it would be beneficial to purchase them. The two books are:
James Duderstadt, Intercollegiate Athletics and the American University: A University President’s Perspective Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press (2002)
Murray Sperber, Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Athletics is Crippling Undergraduate Education, New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company (2000)
Readings and Reserve: Most of the readings are available on EBRARY or JStor; others are on Reserve in Moffitt Library.
James Duderstadt, Intercollegiate Athletics and the American University: A University President’s Perspective Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press (2002)
Murray Sperber, Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Athletics is Crippling Undergraduate Education, New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company (2000)
Readings and Reserve: Most of the readings are available on EBRARY or JStor; others are on Reserve in Moffitt Library.
Books
Armstrong, K., & Perry, N. (2010). Scoreboard, baby: A story of college football, crime, and complicity. Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Lincoln & London.
Bowen, William G. and Levin, Sarah A. (2003). Reclaiming the Game: College Sports and Educational Values. Princeton University Press.
Byers, W. (1995). Unsportsmanlike conduct: Exploiting college athletes. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press.
Clotfelter, Charles T. (2011). Big-Time Sports in American Universities. Cambridge University Press.
Duderstadt, James (2002). Intercollegiate Athletics and the American University: A University President’s Perspective. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
French, Peter A. (2004). Ethics and College Sports: Ethics, Sports, and the University. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Gerdy, John (2006). Air ball: American education’s failed experiment with elite athletics. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi.
Grant, Randy R., Leadley, John Leadley, and Zygmont, Zeno (2008). The Economics of Intercollegiate Sports. Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific Publishing Co., Inc.
Meggyesy, David (2005). Out of Their League. Lincoln, NE: Bison Books, University of Nebraska Press. First edition was published in 1970 in Berkeley, California by Ramparts Books.
Miller, John J. (2011). The Big Scrum: How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football, Harper Collins Publishers.
Oriard, Michael (2009). Bowled over: Big-time college football from the sixties to the BCS era. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina.
Sack, Allen L. and Staurowsky, Ellen J. (1998). College Athletes for Hire. Greenwood Publishing Group.
Sack, Allen L. (2008). Counterfeit amateurs: An athlete’s journey through the sixties to the age of academic capitalism. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University.
Shulman, James L. and Bowen, William G. (2002). The Game of Life: College Sports and Educational Values. Princeton University Press.
Simon, Robert L. (2004). Fair Play: The Ethics of Sport, Second Edition. Colorado: Westview Press.
Smith, Ronald A. (2011). Pay for Play: A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform. University of Illinois Press.
Smith, Ronald A. (1990) Sports and Freedom: The Rise of Big-Time College Athletics, Oxford University Press.
Sperber, Murray (2000). Beer and circus: How big-time college sports is crippling undergraduate education. New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company.
Yost, Mark (2010). Varsity green: A behind the scenes look at culture and corruption in college athletics. Stanford, CA: Stanford University.
Zimbalist, Andrew (1999). Unpaid professionals: Commercialism and conflict in big-time college sports. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University.
Zimbalist, Andrew (2006). The bottom line: observations and arguments on the sports business. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
Zirin, Dave (2008). A People’s History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play, New York, NY: The New Press.
Zirin, Dave and John Wesley Carlos (2011) The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment That Changed the World, Haymarket Books. (Foreword by Cornel West.)
Bowen, William G. and Levin, Sarah A. (2003). Reclaiming the Game: College Sports and Educational Values. Princeton University Press.
Byers, W. (1995). Unsportsmanlike conduct: Exploiting college athletes. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press.
Clotfelter, Charles T. (2011). Big-Time Sports in American Universities. Cambridge University Press.
Duderstadt, James (2002). Intercollegiate Athletics and the American University: A University President’s Perspective. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
French, Peter A. (2004). Ethics and College Sports: Ethics, Sports, and the University. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Gerdy, John (2006). Air ball: American education’s failed experiment with elite athletics. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi.
Grant, Randy R., Leadley, John Leadley, and Zygmont, Zeno (2008). The Economics of Intercollegiate Sports. Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific Publishing Co., Inc.
Meggyesy, David (2005). Out of Their League. Lincoln, NE: Bison Books, University of Nebraska Press. First edition was published in 1970 in Berkeley, California by Ramparts Books.
Miller, John J. (2011). The Big Scrum: How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football, Harper Collins Publishers.
Oriard, Michael (2009). Bowled over: Big-time college football from the sixties to the BCS era. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina.
Sack, Allen L. and Staurowsky, Ellen J. (1998). College Athletes for Hire. Greenwood Publishing Group.
Sack, Allen L. (2008). Counterfeit amateurs: An athlete’s journey through the sixties to the age of academic capitalism. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University.
Shulman, James L. and Bowen, William G. (2002). The Game of Life: College Sports and Educational Values. Princeton University Press.
Simon, Robert L. (2004). Fair Play: The Ethics of Sport, Second Edition. Colorado: Westview Press.
Smith, Ronald A. (2011). Pay for Play: A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform. University of Illinois Press.
Smith, Ronald A. (1990) Sports and Freedom: The Rise of Big-Time College Athletics, Oxford University Press.
Sperber, Murray (2000). Beer and circus: How big-time college sports is crippling undergraduate education. New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company.
Yost, Mark (2010). Varsity green: A behind the scenes look at culture and corruption in college athletics. Stanford, CA: Stanford University.
Zimbalist, Andrew (1999). Unpaid professionals: Commercialism and conflict in big-time college sports. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University.
Zimbalist, Andrew (2006). The bottom line: observations and arguments on the sports business. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
Zirin, Dave (2008). A People’s History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play, New York, NY: The New Press.
Zirin, Dave and John Wesley Carlos (2011) The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment That Changed the World, Haymarket Books. (Foreword by Cornel West.)