Final Reflections

My perception of US sport before this class was more of an athlete look at it of how I love to see the big hits and I for me the sexualization of women in sports is something I didn't disagree with before.  I looked at sport a lot more ignorantly than I do now that I have taken this class.

It has definitely changed from this class to make me look at sport in a way to see what we really value in American sport and further of what we really value in American society.  This class has shown me the deep parallels that are in sport and society and how they reflect each other very closely.  Watching sports and anything really involving sport I will now have a different lens in which I watch these sporting events and be able to enjoy sports for the reasons I enjoy playing these sports.

I think the topic of the gross inequality of women and men in sports.  But I think the most important thing we looked at was that when women are in sports or sports advertisements are always sexualized.  There is never any sort of empowerment for women in sports and athletics which I don't think is necessarily the right thing.

I definitely will ask more critical questions when I watch sports and are around sports because from this class there are many things now that I did not know or at least notice about sport that I now know from this class and personally I think that it will help me understand a sport and society connection more.

My future career will be a lawyer so there is a chance that some of these skills I won't necessarily need then but I think the general idea about critically think about simple issues that I didn't think abut before is a good skill to have in anything that I do.  As for being a lawyer the debates in class were a great thing since there is a good chance that I will be in a debate during sometime of being a lawyer.

I will definitely recommend this class to a friend, in fact, I have already recommended this class to a friend and I think they are going to take it next fall.  I really enjoyed the class, it isn't your typical lecture and I really enjoy those type of classes.  Especially for my last semester before I graduate I really enjoyed this class.