Cross-listed as both SPT-335 and GST-335, this course has students use data to analyze the relationship between gender and sport and its connection to patterns of social injustice and transformation. Students draw on integral theory to examine the behaviors, culture, structures, and systems that shape gender-sport relationships and reinforce inequality, culminating in a final research project on a women's-sport-related topic.
A genuine cross-listing between two academic homes
This course is cross-listed under both SPT (Sport Management) and GST (Gender Studies) — the same content serving two genuinely distinct degree programs, reflecting that gender and sport is a subject substantive enough to matter to both fields rather than being a niche topic in either.
Integral theory applied across four dimensions
The course uses integral theory to examine behaviors, culture, structures, and systems together, teaching students that gender inequality in sport operates across all four of these dimensions simultaneously, not through any single cause.
Key topics in SPT335
- Data analysis of gender and sport
- Patterns of social injustice in sport
- Integral theory applied to gender and sport
- Behaviors, culture, structures, and systems
- Women's sport research
- Gender-based social transformation through sport
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Worked example: integral theory's four dimensions applied to one issue
- Single-cause explanation: Attributing gender inequality in sport to individual attitudes alone
- Integral theory's approach: Examining how behaviors, culture, structures, and systems together produce and sustain that inequality
- Lesson: SPT/GST-335 teaches that gender inequality in sport requires this multi-dimensional analysis to be genuinely understood or addressed, not a single-cause explanation
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Frequently asked questions
The subject matter — how gender shapes and is shaped by sport — is genuinely substantive to both fields: Sport Management students need to understand gender dynamics within sport organizations and culture, while Gender Studies students benefit from sport as a concrete case study of how gender inequality operates in a specific social institution. Cross-listing the course under both SPT and GST numbers reflects that this single body of content serves two distinct, legitimate academic purposes rather than belonging exclusively to either program.
Gender inequality in sport is genuinely produced and sustained by a combination of individual behaviors, broader cultural narratives, organizational structures, and larger social systems working together, meaning an analysis that isolates only one of these factors would miss how they reinforce each other in practice. The course uses integral theory's four-quadrant framework because it captures this genuine multi-dimensional complexity, giving students the analytical tools to understand — and the final research project to investigate — how these factors combine in real women's sport contexts.