GENDER 160Sporting Bodies
Gender Studies · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
From Don Imus’ 2007 “nappy-headed hos” comment to controversies about transgender athletes or athletes with prosthetics; from covers of magazines to violence in Dodger’s Stadium parking lot; footballers not standing during national anthem, college men’s teams rating women’s teams in terms of sexual positions, unionization of athletes—discourses of sport draw heavily upon extant ideologies of race, gender, sexuality, and class. Introduction to critical analyses of social categories and how they are represented and reproduced in various sports and media. Critical examination of historical social values and how they are reproduced through sport.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Recommended requisite: course 10.
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confidence 1.00 · from textRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
GENDER 160
- GENDER 10Introduction to Gender Studies
1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.