History of Sport & Physical Activity in Australian Society (HIST3002)

Course overview

The course critically examines representations of the Australia's sporting past through the lenses of memorials, museums, film and the internet. As part of this approach, there is a focus on Australian sporting icons including Les Darcy, Dawn Fraser, Eddie Gilbert, Peter Norman and Michael O'Loughlin as well as the Australian Sport Museum (Melbourne), the Ration Shed Museum (Cherbourg) and the Australian Paralympic Movement.

Course requirements

Assumed background

HM 109 or HM 119 or HM 117 or HMST 1910 or HMST 2190 or any History first level course.

Course contact

Course staff

Timetable

The timetable for this course is available on the UQ Public Timetable.

Additional timetable information

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Aims and outcomes

Learning outcomes

After successfully completing this course you should be able to:

Assessment

Assessment summary

Assessment details

Written Paper

• Online

Mode

Written

Category

Essay/ Critique

Weight

40%

Due date

30/09/2024 4:00 pm

Other conditions

Student specific.

See the conditions definitions

Task description

Submission guidelines

See HIST3002 Blackboard Site for more detail.

Deferral or extension

You may be able to apply for an extension.

The maximum extension allowed is 28 days. Extensions are given in multiples of 24 hours.

Late submission

A penalty of 10% of the maximum possible mark will be deducted per 24 hours from time submission is due for up to 7 days. After 7 days, you will receive a mark of 0.

Multiple Choice Quizzes

• Identity Verified
• In-person

Mode

Written

Category

Examination, Quiz

Weight

35%

Due date

Weeks 4,7,11,13

Other conditions

Student specific.

See the conditions definitions

Task description

Exam details

Submission guidelines

Deferral or extension

You may be able to defer this exam.

Late submission

Exams submitted after the end of the submission time will incur a late penalty.

Your new quiz date and time will be determined by the course coordinator and communicated to you via your UQ student email account.

Seminar Presentation

• Team or group-based
• In-person

Mode

Activity/ Performance, Oral

Category

Performance, Presentation

Weight

15%

Due date

Assigned in class (available weeks: 5-12)

Task description

Submission guidelines

Deferral or extension

You may be able to apply for an extension.

The maximum extension allowed is 28 days. Extensions are given in multiples of 24 hours.

Extensions are considered in line with UQ Assessment Procedures and will be negotiated with the Demonstrator.

Late submission

A penalty of 10% of the maximum possible mark will be deducted per 24 hours from time submission is due for up to 7 days. After 7 days, you will receive a mark of 0.

Seminar Participation

Mode

Oral

Category

Participation/ Student contribution

Weight

10%

Due date

Ongoing

Task description

Submission guidelines

Deferral or extension

You cannot defer or apply for an extension for this assessment.

Please see additional assessment information for what to do if you cannot attend a compulsory seminar activity.

Course grading

Full criteria for each grade is available in the Assessment Procedure.

Additional course grading information

A final percentage mark will be rounded to the nearest whole number (e.g. 64.50 and above will be rounded to 65 and 64.49 and below will be rounded down to 64.) 

Supplementary assessment

Supplementary assessment is available for this course.

Additional assessment information

I’ve missed a compulsory seminar?

Students are permitted to miss zero seminarsﾠfor HIST3002 without receiving approval.

Students must complete theﾠSchool of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences - absentee formﾠavailable from the HMNS website and submit via email to m.phillips@uq.edu.auﾠno later than five (5) calendar days after the date the original class was held.

Absences on medical grounds:ﾠﾠThis form must be accompanied by a medical certificate signed by a medical practitioner, registered pharmacist or registered nurseﾠno later than two (2) calendar days after the missed classﾠand stating that the student was unfit to attend on the relevant day.ﾠ

Students are required to confirm, by signing theﾠSchool of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences – absentee form, that the medical practitioner is NOT a near relative or close associate (Examples of near relatives are partner, child, brother, sister, or parent. Examples of close associates are close friends, neighbours and partners or children of colleagues.)ﾠ

Absences on non-medical grounds:ﾠThis form must be accompanied by a signed document (Statutory Declaration) detailing the grounds for the application supported by any corroborating information.

Link to absentee form:ﾠhttps://hmns.uq.edu.au/current-students/undergraduate-support

All absentee documentationﾠis to be submitted, within the aforementioned timeframe, to your tutorﾠandﾠcourse-administrator.ﾠﾠ

Learning resources

You'll need the following resources to successfully complete the course. We've indicated below if you need a personal copy of the reading materials or your own item.

Library resources

Find the required and recommended resources for this course on the UQ Library website.

Additional learning resources information

Required Resources

Week 1: Introduction

Pope, S.W. and John Nauright, "Introduction" inﾠPope, S.W. and John Nauright (eds),ﾠRoutledge Companion to Sports Historyﾠ(London: Routledge, 2010), 5-11.ﾠ

Phillips, Murray G., Douglas Booth and Carly Adams, "Introduction" in Murray G. Phillips, Douglas Booth and Carly Adams (eds),ﾠRoutledge Handbook of Sports History (London: Routledge, 2022), 1-6.

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Week 2: Representing the Past: Beyond the Written Word

Phillips, Murray G., Mark E O'Neill, and Gary Osmond. "Broadening Horizons in Sport History: Films, Photographs and Monuments."ﾠJournal of Sport Historyﾠ34, no. 2 (2007): 401-21.

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Week 3: Monumentalising the Past: Sport Memorials

Phillips, Murray G., and Katharine Moore. "The Champion Boxer Les Darcy: A Victim of Class Conflict and Sectarian Bitterness in Australian During World War One."ﾠThe International Journal of the History of Sportﾠ11, no. 1 (1994): 102-14.

Week 4: Monumentalising the Past: Sport Memorials

Film: 'N' Lovers

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Week 5: Monumentalising the Past: Sport Memorials

Osmond, Garyﾠand Murray G. Phillips. “Viewed from all sides: Statues, sport and Eddie Gilbert”,ﾠAustralian Aboriginal Studies,ﾠno. 1 (2014): 16-32.

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Week 6: Staging the Past: Sport Museums

Phillips, Murray G., "Introduction" in Murray G. Phillips (ed),ﾠRepresenting the Sporting Past in Museums and Hall of Fameﾠ(New York: Routledge, 2012), 1-26.

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Weekﾠ7: Staging the Past: Sport Museums

Hardy, Stephen, John Loy, and Douglas Booth. "The Material Culture of Sport: Toward a Typology."ﾠJournal of Sport Historyﾠ36, no. 1 (2009): 129-52.

Phillips, Murray G., and Richard Tinning. "Not Just 'a Book on the Wall': Pedagogical Work, Museums and Representing the Sporting Past."ﾠSport, Education and Societyﾠ16, no. 1 (2011): 51-66.

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Week 8: Screening the Past: Filmic Sport History

Richards, Jeffrey. "Film and Television: The Moving Image" in Sarah Barberﾠand Corinna Peniston-Bird (eds),ﾠHistory Beyond the Text : A Student's Guide to Approaching Alternative Sourcesﾠ(London: Routledge, 2009), 72-88.

Week 9: Screening the Past: Filmic Sport History

Osmond, Gary, and Murray G. Phillips. "Reading Salute: Filmic Representations of Sports History."ﾠThe International Journal of the History of Sportﾠ28, no. 10 (2011): 1463-77.

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Week 10: Screening the Past: Filmic Sport History

Film:ﾠThe Final Quarter

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Week 11: Digital History's Private Face

Osmond, Gary and Murray G. Phillips, 'Introduction: The Bones of Digital History' in Gary Osmondﾠand Murray G. Phillips (eds),ﾠSport History in the Digital Eraﾠ(Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2015), 1-32.

Phillips, Murray G., Gary Osmond and Stephen Townsend, "A Bird's-Eye View of the Past: Digital History, Distant Reading and Sport History."ﾠThe International Journal of Sport Historyﾠ32, no. 15 (2015): 1725-1740.

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Week 12: Digital History's Public Face

Osmond, Gary and Murray G. Phillips, 'Conclusion:ﾠDigital History flexes its Muscle' in Gary Osmond and Murray G. Phillips (eds),ﾠSport History in the Digital Eraﾠ(Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2015), 251-269.

Website: Australian Paralympic History

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Recommended Resources

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Week 1: Introduction

Phillips, Murray G. "Introduction: Sport History and Postmodernism." InﾠMurray .G Phillips (ed),ﾠSport History into the New Millennium: A Postmodern Analysisﾠ(New York: SUNY Press, 2006), 1-24.

Polley, Martin.ﾠSports History: A Practical Guide. (Hampshire: Palgrave, 2007).

“Sport History and the Cultural Turn.”ﾠSporting Traditionsﾠ27, no. 2 (2010).

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Week 2: Representing the Past: Beyond the Written Word

Phillips, Murray G., Mark E O'Neill, and Gary Osmond. "Broadening Horizons in Sport History: Films, Photographs and Monuments."ﾠJournal of Sport Historyﾠ34, no. 2 (2007): 401-21.

Smith, Maureen. "Sport and Material Culture" in Murray G.ﾠPhillips, Douglas Booth and Carly Adams (eds),ﾠRoutledge Handbook of Sports Historyﾠ(London: Routledge, 2022), 65-73.

Weeks 3-5: Monumentalising the Past: Sport Memorials

O'Neill, Mark. "Remembering Johnny Mullagh: Australia's History Wars and Shifting Memories of an Aboriginal Cricketer." InﾠRob Hess (ed),ﾠMaking Histories, Making Memoriesﾠ(Melbourne: Australian Society for Sports History, 2006), 1-22.

Osmond, Gary, Murray G Phillips, and Mark O'Neill. "'Putting up Your Dukes': Statues, Social Memory and Duke Kahanamoku."ﾠThe International Journal of the History of Sportﾠ23, no. 1 (2006): 82-103.

Osmond, Garyﾠand Murray G. Phillips, “Viewed from all sides: Statues, sport and Eddie Gilbert”,ﾠAustralian Aboriginal Studies,ﾠno. 1 (2014):ﾠ16-32.

Schultz, Jaime. "Contesting the Master Narrative: The Arthur Ashe Statue and Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia."ﾠThe International Journal of the History of Sportﾠ28, no. 8-9 (2011): 1235-51.

Smith, Maureen Margaret. "'Frozen Fists in Speed City': The Statue as 21st Century Reparations."ﾠJournal of Sport Historyﾠ36, no. 3 (2009): 401-20.

Smith, Maureen Margaret. "Mapping America's Sporting Landscape: A Case Study of Three Statues."ﾠThe International Journal of the History of Sportﾠ28, no. 8-9 (2011): 1252-68.

Sydnor, Synthia. "Sport, Celebrity and Liminality." In Noel Dyck (ed),ﾠGames, Sports and Culturesﾠ(Oxford: Berg, 2000), 221-41.

Weeks 6-7: Staging the Past: Sport Museums

Adair, Daryl. "When the Games Never Cease: The Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland." InﾠBrent W. Richie and Daryl Adair (eds),ﾠSport Tourism: Interrelationships, Impacts and Issuesﾠ(Clevedon: Channel View Publications, 2004), 46-76.

Harris, Kathryn Leann and Douglas Stark,ﾠInterpreting Sports at Museums and Historic Sites (Rowman & Littlefield, New York, 2023).

Moore, Kevin, John Hughson and Christian Wacker (eds),ﾠSports in Museums (Routledge, London, 2022).

Osmond, Gary, and Murray G. Phillips. "Enveloping the Past: Sport Stamps, Visuality and Museums."ﾠThe International Journal of the History of Sportﾠﾠ28, no. 8-9 (2011): 1138-55.

Phillips, Murray G. "A Historian in the Museum: Story Spaces and Australia's Sporting Past."ﾠAustralian Historical Studiesﾠ41, no. 3 (2010): 396-408.

Phillips, Murray G., Osmond, Gary, and Sandra Morgan. "Indigenous Sport and Heritage: Cherbourg's Ration Shed Museum."ﾠJournal of Heritage Tourismﾠ9, no. 3 (2014): 212 - 227.

Rethinking Historyﾠ16, no. 4 (2012).

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Weeks 8-10: Screening the Past: Filmic Sport History

Hughes-Warrington, Marnie.ﾠHistory Goes to the Movies: Studying History on Film (London: Routledge, 2007).

Hughson, John. "Sport and History on the Ground: Documentary and the Feature Film."ﾠSport in Societyﾠ12, no. 1 (2009): 118-33.

O'Neill, Mark, and Murray G. Phillips. "Sport, Film and Australian Cultural Identity: ReadingﾠHero to a Nation."ﾠSport History Reviewﾠ41, no. 1 (2010): 1-16.

Phillips, Murray G. "An Athletic Clio: Sport History and Television History."ﾠRethinking Historyﾠ12, no. 3 (2008): 399-416.

Rosenstone, Robert A.ﾠHistory on Film/Film on History (Harlow: Pearson Education, 2006).

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Weeks 11-12: Digital History's Private and Public Faces

Cohen, Daniel J., and Roy Rosenzweig.ﾠDigital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving and Presenting the Past on the Web (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006).

de Groot, Jerome.ﾠConsuming History: Historians and Heritage in Contemporary Popular Culture (London: Routledge, 2009).

O'Sullivan, Dan.ﾠWikipedia: A New Community of Practice?ﾠ(Farnham: Ashgate, 2009).

Osmond, Gary andﾠMurray G. Phillips, ed.ﾠSport History in the Digital Eraﾠ(Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2015).

Phillips, Murray G.,ﾠ “Wikipedia and History: A Worthwhile Partnership in the Digital Era?”,ﾠRethinking Historyﾠ20, no. 4 (2015): 523-543.

Phillips, Murray G.,ﾠGary Osmond, and Stephen Townsend, ‘A Bird’s Eye View of the Past: Digital History, Distant Reading, and Sport History’,ﾠThe International Journal of the History of Sportﾠ32, no. 15 (2015): 1725-1740.

Rosenzweig, Roy. "Sport History on the Web: Towards a Critical Assessment."ﾠJournal of Sport Historyﾠ31, no. 3 (2004): 371-76.

Rosenzweig, Roy.ﾠClio Wired: The Future of the Past in the Digital Age (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011).

Sterling, Jennifer J, Murray G. Phillips, Mary G. McDonald, Doing Sport History in the Digital Present.ﾠJournal of Sport Historyﾠ44, no. 2 (2017): 135-145.

Townsend, Stephen.,ﾠOsmond, GaryﾠandﾠMurray G. Phillips. "Wicked Wikipedia? Communities of Practice, the Production of Knowledge and Australian Sport History."ﾠThe International Journal of the History of Sportﾠ30, no. 5 (2013): 545 - 59.

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Learning activities

The learning activities for this course are outlined below. Learn more about the learning outcomes that apply to this course.

Policies and procedures

University policies and procedures apply to all aspects of student life. As a UQ student, you must comply with University-wide and program-specific requirements, including the:

• Student Code of Conduct Policy
• Student Integrity and Misconduct Policy and Procedure
• Assessment Procedure
• Examinations Procedure
• Reasonable Adjustments - Students Policy and Procedure

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School guidelines

Your school has additional guidelines you'll need to follow for this course:

• School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences Student Support