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Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study

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Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study

In this free course, doping (performance enhancing drugs, or PEDs) is used as an example of how contemporary issues in sport might be studied. Doping is used to illustrate how you can think about the debates involved in an issue and this will help you develop appropriate skills to discuss other contemporary issues in sport.

This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course E315 Contemporary sport and exercise issues.

Course learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

  • assess how the contrast between media sources and published academic research on doping may illustrate some of the topics and arguments that make up a contemporary issue
  • identify how contemporary issues, such as doping, often benefit from a little social context and/or background history to help explain the present day
  • describe how the framing, arguments made and overall evaluation of a contemporary issue benefit from a critical approach to reading and viewing material.

First Published: 17/01/2025

Updated: 17/01/2025

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