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2024-2025 Catalogue 
    
2024-2025 Catalogue

Sports Studies Minor


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The Sports Studies interdisciplinary minor provides a course of study that recognizes sport as a fundamental component of the human experience. Sports has had a significant influence on humanity for thousands of years, and today permeates nearly every aspect of human society and culture. Throughout history, sport and athletic competition have helped to define who we are as human beings and have contributed to our cultural development in a way that few other societal/cultural pursuits have. Students participating in this interdisciplinary minor focus on the origins of human athletic competition, the social, historical, and cultural impacts of sport, and modern scientific approaches to the study of sport and human athletic performance. Emphasis will be placed on recognition of sport as more than just a leisure activity that targets the physical body, but rather as a critical element of life that contributes to the betterment of the whole person.

Minor requirements include:

  1. The student must be a degree candidate at Saint Anselm College.
  2. The student must formally register with the director of the minor no later than the first semester of the junior year.
  3. The student must meet any prerequisites required to take individual courses.
  4. The student must have a minimum cumulative grade point average of C (2.00) across the five courses required for the minor.

Courses include those listed below and any additional sports-focused course approved by the director of the minor. Sports-related internships are acceptable if taken for course credit and approved by the director prior to the internship.

  • BI 201 - Exercise Physiology
  • BI 209 - Nutrition
  • PY 212  - Sports and Exercise Psychology
  • One of the following: PY203 Adolescent Psychology or PY206 Health Psychology or PY307 Abnormal Psychology
  • One of the following: CL261 Ancient Athletics or CL311 Greek Civilization or CL312 Roman Civilization or EC344 Sports Economics or MK231 Principles of Marketing or PH107 Ethics or SO309 Gender, Sex and Sexuality or Internship (any department must be approved in advance by the Director or the minor
  • Or related course approved by the Director of the minor

Minor requirements include:


  1. The student must be a degree candidate at Saint Anselm College.
  2. The student must formally register with the director of the minor no later than the first semester of the junior year.
  3. The student must meet any prerequisites required to take individual courses.
    1. In order to take Exercise Physiology (BI 201 ), the student must have completed one of the following prerequisites: General Biology (BI 103  - BI 104 ), Human Anatomy & Physiology (BI 331  - BI 332 ), or General Biology for Non-Majors (BI 101   or  BI 102 ) with an average grade of C (2.0) or better.
    2. Remaining courses do not have prerequisites.
  4. The student must have a minimum cumulative grade point average of C (2.00) across the five courses required for the minor. Three of the five courses must be taken outside of the major.

Possible courses include those listed below and any additional sports-focused course approved by the director of the minor. Sports-related internships are acceptable if taken for course credit and approved by the director prior to the internship.

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