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Title IX Seminar
Class Term:
Fall Term 2015-2016
Catalog Number:
5705
Class Number:
28942
Class Schedule:
Tuesday
10:30 am -
12:20 pm
Room:
Chief Justice Ralph J. Cappy Room
Professor
Seminar
Credits:
3 (2 Contact, 0 Field)
Graduation Requirements:
Upper-Level Writing
"W" Writing
Priority:
Seminar - 3rd Year Priority
Full Year Course:
No
Category:
Standard Courses
Grading Details
This seminar will provide an opportunity for students to engage in an intensive writing project on some aspect of Title IX and/or gender equality in sports. The primary goal of the seminar is for students to produce a high-quality, serious piece of writing that will fulfill the law school writing requirement. A secondary goal is to provide students with experience and skills critiquing the writing of others. Readings and class discussion will be tailored to these goals.
Requirements: two drafts of a paper, one class presentation, and participation in general class discussion. Grading: paper (2/3) and class participation (1/3).
Description
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 is often credited with explosive growth in the numbers of girls and women playing sports, which has had many secondary effects on gender relations in the broader society. Title IX’s supporters argue that the law has been unusually effective in promoting gender equality. And yet, Title IX remains a highly controversial law, often blamed for cutbacks to men’s sports and for putting added financial burdens on schools to fund sports programs which may detract from other educational priorities. It is an area of law that invites critical inquiry into methods of statutory interpretation, competing theories of equality, and law’s relationship to social change.