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CMYHE202-20A (HAM)
Understanding Healthy Bodies: Sociocultural Perspectives
15 Points
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Lisette Burrows
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TT.6.03A
lisette.burrows@waikato.ac.nz
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Holly Thorpe
6528
TT.7.08
holly.thorpe@waikato.ac.nz
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Paper Description
This course aims to help you develop a socially critical understanding of the ‘healthy body’. You will learn about the ways gender, ethnicity, ability, age, disability, healthism, sexuality and class shape our bodies, how they look, feel, what they do and how they are regarded by your selves and others. You will become familiar with a range of theoretical tools and concepts that can be used to critically examine the healthy body in the fields of exercise science, community health, and sport. The course aims to help you:
- Grasp how socio-cultural perspectives are helpful in understanding the healthy body
- Develop the capacity to critically interrogate contemporary re-presentations of the healthy body in scholarly literature and in everyday life.
- Develop a foundational understanding of the different discourses that shape our perceptions of which bodies are healthy (or not).
- Understand the centrality of the healthy body to contemporary social life both in NZ and globally.
Paper Structure
This paper has a 12 week structure over the semester and involves a two hour lecture each Monday (noon - 1.50pm) and one 2-hour tutorial on either Thursday (9am - 10.50am) or Thursday (3.10pm - 5pm). There are directed readings and tasks that will need to be completed prior to each tutorial. We begin in the first two lecture sessions with developing some tools for critically thinking, observing and reading about healthy bodies and then focus on issues related to particular kinds of bodies for each of the remaining sessions.
Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully complete the course should be able to:
Assessment
Assessment Components
The internal assessment/exam ratio (as stated in the University Calendar) is 100:0. There is no final exam.
Required and Recommended Readings
Required Readings
https://rl.talis.com/3/waikato/lists/E7E7CF79-78C6-E0F3-E6D7-9826C225F0AB.html?draft=1&lang=en-US&login=1
Online Support
Moodle online is used to support your learning in this paper. You should check Moodle on a regular basis! General questions can be asked through the Moodle site and there is also a place to discuss any personal confidential matters related to your participation e.g. absence from class with lectuers.
Some lecture notes/panoptos of the lecture will be available on Moodle however it is highly recommended that you fully attend lectures.
The required and recommended readings for thie paper are available through the online reading site (link is on Moodle).
Workload
This paper has an expected workload of 150 hours which is a University wide requirement. This includes approximately 36 hours of lecture and tutorial contact time, 40 hours of directed reading and out of class work and 74 hours of time devoted to assessment.