SOCY 3358 Gender and Sports

This course uses sport to understand gender relations in a society. The course examines the ways that gender and intersections of race, class, and sexuality are produced by and within relations of power, and how normative definitions of gender and its intersections underpin normative practices in sport, health, and physical cultural contexts. Drawing on feminist scholarship, this course provides a critical insight into the history of gender relations, and how gender is used to reproduce and resist inequalities in sport, health, and physical culture.

Course overview

Department
Sociology
School
MCAS
Credits
3
Level
Undergraduate
Offered
Periodically in the Spring

Requirements fulfilled

No source-backed degree requirement is attached to this course yet.

Official evaluation summary

4.28 / 5

Based on 91 aggregate responses from BC Avalanche/Blue evaluations.

Data freshness

Course and evaluation data last updated 2026-08-02. Source details and limitations are documented in Data Sources and Methodology.

Instructors

  • Emily B Barko
    Fall 2026
  • Kyoung-Yim Kim
    Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021 · Official rating 4.52/5

Sections

  • Section 01
    Fall 2026 · Emily B Barko · Mcguinn Hall 413 TuTh 11:30AM-12:45PM · Offered