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Apr 06, 2026
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KIN 270 - Women and Sport
Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-4; Diversity
Experiences of girls and women in sport from social, cultural and historical perspectives. Constructs of gender, race, ethnicity, and sexuality will be examined. Ideological constraints, structural constraints, and individual and collective resistance will be explored.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-4 - Lower Division Social and Behavioral Sciences, Overlay - Diversity
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- identify the ideological issues girls and women face as a result of their sport participation.
- identify the structural barriers girls and women face as a result of their sport participation.
- explain how female athletes challenge conventional understandings of femininity and womanhood.
- discuss how subject positions such as class, race/ethnicity, sexuality, and disability shape and inform athletic experience.
GE-4. Lower-division Social and Behavioral Sciences Electives Learning Outcomes
- Explain how social, political, and economic institutions and/or principles intersect with each other.
- Describe how people produce, resist, and/or transform social, political, and economic institutions/principles.
- Investigate contemporary and/or historical events/issues from a social science perspective.
Diversity Overlay Learning Outcomes
- Describe the histories, experiences or views of one or more cultural groups.
- Analyze the overlap or intersection of social identities of oneself and/or other cultural groups (e.g., culture, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, and/or age).
- Examine the impact of their own identity on their experiences with and/or views of other cultural groups.
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