Leadership and Justice in Sports

Examines the landscape of athletics regarding human, social, economic, and cultural capital, with a focus on leadership and social justice in sports.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Sara Jimenez Soffa

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=21 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.73 GPA, 88.5% A/AB (n=26 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.83 GPA, 88.9% A/AB (n=18 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Cultivate critical reflection on the systems and structures that underlie athletics in the US.

  • Deepen historical understandings of the multi-level ways that justice has been contested in and through sports.

  • Identify key practices and conditions that cultivate life opportunities in and through sports.

  • Articulate processes and models that promote justice in and through sports.

  • Promote justice-centered leadership roles and possibilities in sports.

  • Build capacity for positively transforming lives, organizations, communities, and perspectives in sports and beyond.

Source: UW Guide

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  • Graduate/professional standing
ELPA 751

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  • Graduate/professional standing

Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=21 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.73 GPA, 88.5% A/AB (n=26 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.83 GPA, 88.9% A/AB (n=18 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

SARA JIMENEZ SOFFA is recorded teaching in Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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LEC 001Online Only0 / 250

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=21 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.73 GPA, 88.5% A/AB (n=26 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.83 GPA, 88.9% A/AB (n=18 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Race, poverty, activism, youth sports, and college sports reform
  • Roles of athletes and coaches
  • Historical contestation of justice in sports

Skills

  • Critical reflection on athletic systems
  • Articulating justice-promoting processes
  • Justice-centered leadership

Grades

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ELPA 751 · Spring 2027

Leadership and Justice in Sports

Recorded 2026-10-14
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