Upon completion of this course students will be able to demonstrate:
1. An understanding of the different theoretical perspectives used to study social and cultural practices of 'the lived body' and 'living the body'
2. An understanding of how frameworks and approaches to the body have been used and developed over time.
3. Knowledge of the way in which experiences are culturally constituted and socially controlled.
4. An ability to critically analyse cultural understandings, representations and social practices.
5. Skills in giving and facilitating oral presentations and engaging in team work, writing academic essays, undertaking and contributing to policy research.
6. An ability to integrate and apply social science approaches in the workplace.

Topics may include:
1. Classic and contemporary ethnographic studies of approaches to the body (e.g. embodiment, the individual body, the social body, the body politic, experiences of living the body).
2. Ethnographic studies of how relationships are negotiated, understandings mediated and meanings constructed, with a particular emphasis on cultural difference(s).
3. Theories of the way in which experiences are symbolically and socially constituted.
4. Theories of social and cultural approaches to the lived body and living the body.

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40 units of study at 1000 level

Internal Mode

Lecture
Tutorial

Lecture: for 1 hour(s) per Week for Full Term
Tutorial: for 1 hour(s) per Week for Full Term