Sports and Society is a semester-long elective that reflects the values, trends, and ideas of sports and its impact on the world. This course revolves around the topics of social studies, economics, psychology, politics, law, history, geography, media studies, and science. 

“The class asks the question what is a sport, and then we go through the history of sports,” said teacher Jared Scarpaci. 

The class watches documentaries and movies explaining the history of sports most recently soccer and then breaks into discussions on many sports topics.

“Then we do a unit on the history of soccer because it’s a global sport and one of my favorites. We also spend a lot of time on college athletics and all the issues in college athletics like NIL,” said Scarpaci. 

Freshman Joe Demato chose to take Sports and Society this semester.

“I chose to enroll in sports and society because I loved sports growing up, and it impacts my life and my family’s life a lot, so seeing how it works in society is just a great thing to see.”

After learning about college athletics, the final unit dives deeply into the history of the Olympics and all of the political and social aspects of this worldwide competition. 

“My favorite thing we learned about so far is about all of the different sports in all different cultures. Soon we will be learning about the NCAA, the Olympics, and other great stuff.”

The workload is very manageable for an elective.

“It’s pretty easy to work, right now we are watching a video about sports around the world and just learning about their impact on culture,” said freshman Ryan.

Sports and Society is a semester-long course that is offered to freshmen and sophomores as a College Prep class, and is an awesome way to learn about the world of athletics as well as dive into the different cultures of different sports.