The purpose of this course is that the students will develop and enter deeply their knowledge on gender and sports as well as gender from an international perspective.

During the first part of the course participation in sports activites in history and in contemporary society are studied from a gender perspective. During the second half of the course the student will concentrate on athletes’ destiny, in order to analyze the destiny placed in a gendered sports regime. The course will be concluded by the student writing an essay analyzing an individual life experience from a structural perspective.

On completion of the course, the student will be able to

The course consists of web based learning activities and the language of instruction is English.

All the learning outcomes will be examined individually and in three written examinations.

The criteria for Pass and Pass with Distinction are clarified by the examiner at the start of the course.

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Compulsory literature

Adair, Daryl & Knijnik, Jorge (2014) Embodied masculinities in global sports. Morgantown: FiT Publishing, 234 p.

Hargreaves, Jennifer (2000) Heroines of sport. The politics of difference and identity. London: Routledge, 284 p.

Ratna, Aarti & Samie, Samaya F. (2018) Race, gender and sport. The politics of ethnic ‘other’ girls and women. London: Routledge, 244 p.

One biography of a sportswomen or sportsman

Malmö University provides students who participate in, or who have completed a course, with the opportunity to express their opinions and describe their experiences of the course by completing a course evaluation administered by the University. The University will compile and summarise the results of course evaluations. The University will also inform participants of the results and any decisions relating to measures taken in response to the course evaluations. The results will be made available to the students (HF 1:14).

If a course is no longer offered, or has undergone significant changes, the students must be offered two opportunities for re-examination based on the syllabus that applied at the time of registration, for a period of one year after the changes have been implemented.

If a student has a Learning support decision, the examiner has the right to provide the student with an adapted test, or to allow the student to take the exam in a different format. The syllabus is a translation of a Swedish source text.