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New Common Course Numbering (CCN) System Implemented for Fall 2025

Phase I of a state-mandated initiative — aimed at simplifying student transfer and ensuring uniformity in course numbers across California Community Colleges — is underway for Fall 2025. This impacts six Foothill courses plus their honors course version. View the six courses listed here.

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Kinesiology

KINS 2

SPORT IN SOCIETY

5 units

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Description: Students examine the history of sports and its significance in economics and politics, and the role of race, ethnicity, culture, and gender in sport and society. Students also examine specific issues, such as the emergence of professional and collegiate sports in the United States, questions of ethics, commercialization, the relationship between sports and media, the internationalization of sports, and the Olympic movement. Students will also examine youth sport and the current status of youth sport in the United States.
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Corequisite:
Advisory: Advisory: Maximum UC credit awarded for any or all of the following courses combined is 12 units: KINS 2, 3, 8A, 8B; not open to students with credit in H P 1B or PHED 2.
Repeatability: Not Repeatable.
Hours: 5 hours lecture per week. 60 hours total per quarter.
Foothill GE Area:Social & Behavioral Sciences
Transferability: Both
Transfer GE: Information regarding how this course is applied toward CSU GE/Breadth or IGETC certification is available at:
Foothill Transfer GE Guide

Department Note:

Section: KINS-002.-01W

Course Number (CRN): 20173

Dates: 9/25/2023 - 12/15/2023

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Online

TBA TBA

RIPP, KATY

10 of 10 seats open
0 of 0 waitlist seats open

Modality: In-person

Textbook(s): $0-$30$0-$50 indicates course/section uses materials that may be free of charge or may cost less than $30.Check Bookstore

Footnote: Independent study courses are offered through agreements with individual faculty members. To enroll, students must meet with an instructor who then submits an independent study contract during the first two weeks of the quarter. Students must discuss enrollment and potential projects with interested faculty members.

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