Spring 2027

The Sociology of Gender

Sociological examination of gender roles, status, and societal patterns, covering marriage, employment, socialization, and cultural reinforcement, with attention to existing patterns and change.

offering recorded3–4 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Chloe Hart4.0/5

Summary

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Past student reviews · Chloe Hart

The course is generally easy, requiring you to take notes, attend class, and complete readings. There are three midterms, but no final exam, and exams cover only material presented in lecture.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Explain how gender is manifested at individual, interactional and institutional levels, and provide examples of how gender operates each level.

  • Apply social science research findings to critically analyze how social norms, structures and policies are gendered.

  • Summarize changes over time in attitudes, beliefs and behaviors related to gender.

  • Articulate the relationship between theory and social science research to understand gender.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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SOC 138

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Professors

Spring 2027

Chloe Hart

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About this rating

Raw average: 4.35/5 from 20 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

For this course: 4.5/5 raw quality · 1.8/5 difficulty · 17 reviews

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Past student reviews · Chloe Hart

Chloe Hart taught SOC 138 with three midterms and one paper, which students described as easy if they attended lectures and discussion sections. While most found the workload manageable, one student noted the paper was graded relatively harshly, and another found lectures long and boring.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.55 GPA, 75.9% A/AB (n=83 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.54 GPA, 77.7% A/AB (n=94 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.67 GPA, 88.4% A/AB (n=69 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

Past student reviews · Alyssa Levy, Cabell Gathman

Alyssa Levy explained complex readings clearly in lecture and provided explicit assignment instructions. Cabell Gathman taught engaging lectures but administered difficult exams that tested specific details, such as percentages from articles, and required substantial reading and eight 500-word papers.

ALYSSA LEVY is recorded teaching in Spring 2010. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

CABELL GATHMAN is recorded teaching in Spring 2015. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

CHLOE HART is recorded teaching in Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

GINA LONGO is recorded teaching in Fall 2017. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

KATIE ZAMAN is recorded teaching in Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

MADELEINE FAIRBAIRN is recorded teaching in Fall 2012. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

MARIA AZOCAR is recorded teaching in Fall 2018, Spring 2019. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

MYRA FERREE is recorded teaching in Fall 2014, Fall 2016, Fall 2017. 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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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 1000
DIS 301Classroom Instruction0 / 250
DIS 302Classroom Instruction0 / 250
DIS 303Classroom Instruction0 / 250
DIS 304Classroom Instruction0 / 250

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Chloe Hart

Professor Hart delivers well-thought-out and interesting lectures that make concepts easy to understand. Students found the class engaging and left feeling confident in the material.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.55 GPA, 75.9% A/AB (n=83 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.54 GPA, 77.7% A/AB (n=94 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.67 GPA, 88.4% A/AB (n=69 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Chloe Hart

The course is generally easy, requiring you to take notes, attend class, and complete readings. There are three midterms, but no final exam, and exams cover only material presented in lecture.

Past student reviews · Chloe Hart

Professor Hart is punctual and responsive to emails, though some students found discussion sections poorly organized. One reviewer noted that the single required paper was graded relatively harshly.

Topics

  • Status and roles of women and men
  • Marriage, parenthood, employment, and occupational attainment
  • Socialization into sex roles and cultural reinforcement
  • Existing gender patterns and their change over time

Skills

  • Explain how gender manifests at individual, interactional, and institutional levels.
  • Critically analyze how social norms, structures, and policies are gendered using research findings.
  • Summarize historical changes in gender-related attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors.
  • Articulate the relationship between sociological theory and research regarding gender.

Grades

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The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.

The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.

8 earlier forecasts · 0.15 GPA average error.

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1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

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Selected offering source records
SOC 138 · Spring 2027

The Sociology of Gender

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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