Conclusion

Overall, I really enjoyed this class. There were many topics that were discussed that really intrigued me and made me want to go out and find more information on them, and write a blog about them. I chose to write many extra blogs because I enjoyed them and it was not time consuming. I think that I would always want to do a blog with multiple entries over doing one big paper on my own and never receiving feedback on what other people thought about my ideas. I think that was my favorite part of the blogs was knowing that other people would be able to comment back and forth and tell me what they thought compared to my thoughts.

My favorite topic was when we talked about the differences in coverage between the Men’s and Women’s NCAA coverage. I thought it was fun to hear what everyone had to say about why they thought this was the case. It then made me want to find out more about the topic and I thought that the out of class assignment to find and article about women’s basketball was interesting. It made me realize that even in a major women’s accomplishment like the UCONN women’s team winning the national championship, there were still relations to the men’s team and how they did in the tournament and throughout the year.

I think that Blogging really helped me to actually be able to say my feelings. There are often times in class that I have comments to make, but I really do not have the desire to create controversy or for me to think differently than what others do. That is why a blog is so much better for me. I am able to talk to others and find out what they think. I like receiving the feedback and then being able to comment back to those comments to get a discussion going. It is fun and it is not time consuming at all. I do not feel like I am wasting my time when I am writing a blog because it only take about ten minutes to write a quality blog and a like five minutes to write a comment back to someone.
There were some presentations that were more interesting to me. I definitely enjoyed the presentations that had videos in class. I liked being able to have something to relate to the topics we were talking about in class. I did not like the amount of readings we were responsible for, but I did like that we discussed them in class so that we for sure understood what the authors were talking about in the articles. Some of the articles were also kind of confusing to read and understand and I think that is why I enjoyed the class discussion. It clarified everything in the article and helped me to understand what I needed to know for the tests. I liked how the stuff that we talked about in class was actually on the test and the study guide was a very good guide to what needed to be known for this class. I hate classes that give you a twenty page study guide and you only needed to know about two of those pages for the test. The study guide helps to make it so that you do not have to spend multiple hours sitting and studying worthless information. Instead you are studying the information that is most important to the class and by studying this kind of information, it actually sticks with you. I remember things from SM 221 because the study guide was easy to recall on the test and now I still remember it.

After this class, I think that I now know many of the big issues that deal with gender and sports. This class has really helped me to understand what is going on in the world. I did not know that many of the cases that we talked about in class, but now I know what could possibly happen within my future career. I know what to avoid in order to not receive any allegations against me or the organization that we did something that was an advantage of disadvantage for either gender. It is important to have good publicity and avoid any legal fights. I am glad that I took this class and I believe that it will help me continuously in the future because I will be able to relate back to many of the discussions we had in class.