WGS 3230

I would definitely recommend this course if you are into sports and/or the Olympic Games. Hagerman provides a really good background of the development of the Olympics and traces women’s history throughout. Hagerman assigns a fair amount of reading, around 60ish pages a week, but it’s pretty manageable as long as you’re organized. If you participate in class, make sure to do the weekly discussion posts, and go to office hours (if you have questions about assignments) you should do well in this class. The two big assignments are the final paper and final exam. The final paper is a ~10 page paper that is assigned before spring break, so you have plenty of time to plan/write it. I would absolutely encourage going to office hours specifically about this paper so that professor Hagerman can help you make sure that it’s a viable argument. The exam is objectively challenging, but the questions were pretty fair — as long as you pay attention in class and do the readings, you’ll be good!

For the love of God please do yourself a favor and do not take this course. It's a 3000 level but it gives way too much work. She looks for very specific things in papers, but she doesn't tell you what they are in the rubric so you're screwed if you don't happen to include some random thing she focused on. The content is interesting and I enjoyed her lectures, but the course is not at all worth it. You have a 10-14 page final research paper and then a huge written final exam that she (if you're lucky) will give you a notecard for.