EXSP 490A - Sport and Culture in Malaysia and Singapore

Summer, 2007

Instructor: Dr. Richard Engelhorn

Office: 240 Forker Building

Office Phone: 294-8131 ------------ Home Phone: 795-3192

Email: richarde@iastate.edu

Web Page: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~richarde

Prerequisites: Interest in sport and culture

Texts: Packet of Readings in History and Culture of Malaysian, Singaporean, and US Sport

Purpose of the Course:

     At the end of the course students will

1.  be able to describe the historical development of sport in Malaysia and Singapore

2.  be able to describe the similarities and differences in the sport culture of

Malaysia, Singapore, and the US

3.  be able to describe the effect of culture on the development and current status

of sport in Malaysia, Singapore, and the US

4.  have a general knowledge of the culture and geography of Malaysia and Sinapore

Course Content (Readings from course packet)

I. Introduction

            A.  Sport, history, and culture

            B. Importance of sport to national identity

 

II. Sport Structures in Malaysia and Singapore

A.  Sport clubs

                        1.  youth

                        2.  adult

            B.  School sports

                        1. secondary school

                        2. sport schools

3. college or university

            C.  Elite sports

                        1.  international and Olympic

                        2.  professional

 

III. Historical perspectives of Malaysian sport

            A.  Origins of sport in SE Asia

            B.  British colonial sport in the 19th century

            C.  20th Century sport development

            D.  Sport development since independence in 1957

            E.   Overview of popular and traditional Malaysian sports

 

IV. Sport and Culture in Malaysia

            A.  Ethnicity and sport

            B.  Religion and sport

            C.  Women in sport

            D.  Sport versus academics

            E.  Elitism in sport

V. Sport and Culture in Singapore

 

VI. Summary

            A.  Status of sport in Malaysia and Singapore

            B.  Future directions for sport in Malaysia and Singapore

Grading

Paper - Pre-departure assignments - 20%

Paper - Analysis of Malaysian and Singaporean sport structure - 30%

Paper - Issues in culture and sport in Malaysia and Singapore - 30%

Discussion participation - 20%

 

Reading List

 

Brownfoot, J. N. (2002).  Healthy bodies, healthy minds:  sport and society in colonial

Malaya.  International Journal of the History of Sport, 19, 129-156.

   

Douglas, Steven A. (1989) Sport in Malaysia. In Sport in Asia and Africa, Editor Eric A.

Wagner. New York, NY, Greenwood Press, p 165-182.

 

Dyreson, M. (2001). Maybe it's better to bowl alone; sport, community and democracy

            in American thought.  Culture, Sport, Society, 4, 19-30.

 

Horton, Peter. (2002). Shackling the lion:  sport in independent Singapore. In Sport in

Asian Society Ð Past and Present. Editors Mangan, J.A. and Hong, Fan.  London: Frank Cass, pp. 243-274.

 

Ishak, M.M. & Fawzee, M. S. O. (2001) Sport and nation building in Malaysia,

Sociology of Sport Online, 4(2).

  

Mangan, J. A. (2002) Asian sport:  from the recent past.In Sport in Asian Society - Past and Present. Editors Mangan, J.A.

and Hong, Fan.  London: Frank Cass, pp. 1-10.

 

McClain, James (1990). Cultural chauvinism and the Olympiads of East Asia. 

International Journal of the History of Sport, 388-404.

  

Wagner, Eric A. (1989) An overview of sport in Asia and Africa. In Sport in Asia and

Africa, Editor Eric A. Wagner. New York, NY, Greenwood Press, p 1-6.

 

 

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