The ladies were making a posterboard sign for the Elective Fair (because I was incapable) so that we could inform the students in attendance about the various English Electives available and we needed to include my friend Kevin's class but we weren't sure on the name: I insisted the class was called Sports in Literature but the ladies thought it might be Sports and Literature . . . but I convinced them that the middle word was "in" because Sports and Literature is a class where each day you read a bit and then play some kind of sport; perhaps Monday you tackle a passage from Brothers Karamazov and hit around a shuttlecock, Tuesday might be "The Wasteland" and flag football . . . and Sports in Literature is the class Kevin teaches, a class about books like Friday Night Lights and Moneyball, literary works that contain sports (and though I convinced them with my vivid and logical argument, I was totally wrong-- the name of the course is Sports and Literature . . . absurd).
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You are correct, it should be Sports in Leisure, but academia is full of academicians and they often aren't the most astute folks so you get classes like Feminism and the Law (which seems like two massive topics) instead of Feminism in the Law (which is just one topic the surface of which can be decently scratched in a 2-3 credit course).
How about Sports 'n' Literature?
or
Sports: Unliterature
i would not do well in feminism, law, feminism and the law, or feminism in the law. i do really like Sports'n'Literature, has just the right colloquial tone.
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