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Gender & Sport

Course Overview

Date / Time Location Credits Minimium Tuition*
1/27/25 - 5/14/25
MoWe 2:30p.m. – 3:45p.m.
Wheatley-Peters W01-0006 3 $1984 (guest students)
Date
1/27/25 - 5/14/25
Time
MoWe 2:30p.m. – 3:45p.m.
Location
Wheatley-Peters W01-0006
Credits
3
Min. Tuition*
$1984 (guest students)

Description

This course explores the history and contemporary role of gender, sex, and sexism in sporting spaces. Significant sporting events along with political and sociocultural shifts in society will be examined using gender-based theoretical frameworks. Students will identify the ways in which and specific conditions when sport reinforces, resists, and/or reflects dominant gender ideologies.

This course is closed for registration.

Course Details