Module ANT3088 for 2019/0
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
ANT3088: Health, Illness and Bodies in Contemporary Society: Part 2: Bodies in Society
This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.
Module Aims
Understanding how societies and cultures shape bodies is critical to understanding the meanings and experiences of health and illness in contemporary society. The aim of the module is to introduce you to central concepts and analytic frameworks through which sociologists and anthropologists study and approach ‘the body’ in society and culture. This module will familiarise you with scholarship that takes bodies to be historically and culturally contingent and sites for important social, cultural and identity work across cultures, and to develop insights into how health, illness and deviance are experienced and governed. The module seeks to introduce you to the rich body of work being developed in sociology and anthropology around bodies and their many meanings, and the importance of critically placing bodies in cultural, power and policy contexts. You will develop research, writing and presentation skills by identifying, pursuing and communication about a topic on bodies throughout the module.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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Module-Specific Skills | 1. Competently demonstrate your knowledge about current sociological and anthropological work and debate on bodies as historically and culturally contingent, and as material loci of social and cultural practices, in class discussion and course work; 2. Competently develop complex arguments regarding specific contemporary topics concerning bodies and their relationship to topics of health and illness, social control, identity, and social inequalities - based on sociological and anthropological theory and research; |
Discipline-Specific Skills | 3. Critically evaluate contemporary sociological and anthropological texts; 4. display in written and oral form an understanding of the critical approaches of these disciplines 5. appreciate key issues relevant to the contemporary world, and develop critical, comparative and cross-cultural insight; |
Personal and Key Skills | 6. Critically demonstrate transferable skills in formulating, researching and addressing focused questions; 7. Critically prepare focused and comprehensive written and oral presentations; 8. Critically work independently and in collaboration with others; 9. Critically demonstrate critical and cross-cultural understanding, translation and comparison, which will be of advantage in an increasing range of professional settings. |
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Lecture topics may include:
- Theorising the body
- Categorising the body – deviance, cultural constructions, and social inequality
- Regulating bodies – discipline and punish? Social control and beyond
- Marking, performing and displaying bodies
- Bodies as sites of consumption
- Experiences of bodies and embodiment
- Bodies of/in ethnography
- Technologies of/and bodies
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
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22 | 128 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
Category | Hours of study time | Description |
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Scheduled Learning & Teaching | 22 | 11 x 2 hour lectures, involving presentations, group discussion, and film screenings |
Guided independent study | 18 | Preparing a formative, research based presentation individually |
Guided independent study | 80 | Reading and research, with roughly 10% dedicated to seminar preparation |
Guided independent study | 30 | Web-based activities |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
news media, blogs and online fora
Other Learning Resources
films and relevant feature films
How this Module is Assessed
In the tables below, you will see reference to 'ILO's. An ILO is an Intended Learning Outcome - see Aims and Learning Outcomes for details of the ILOs for this module.
Formative Assessment
A formative assessment is designed to give you feedback on your understanding of the module content but it will not count towards your mark for the module.
Form of assessment | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
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Class presentation, primarily oral, individual | 10-15 minutes depending on class size | 1,2,4,7-9 | Primarily Oral |
Summative Assessment
A summative assessment counts towards your mark for the module. The table below tells you what percentage of your mark will come from which type of assessment.
Coursework | Written exams | Practical exams |
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90 | 0 | 10 |
...and this table provides further details on the summative assessments for this module.
Form of assessment | % of credit | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
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Essay | 25 | 1,000 words | 1-3, 5-9 | Oral and written |
Research Essay | 65 | 2,000 words | 1-3, 5-9 | Oral and written |
Participation, primarily in seminars | 10 | Participation in one hour seminars once weekly, assessed against marking criteria available on ELE, in the module outline, and explained at the beginning of term. | 3-5, 6-9 | Oral and written |
Re-assessment
Re-assessment takes place when the summative assessment has not been completed by the original deadline, and the student has been allowed to refer or defer it to a later date (this only happens following certain criteria and is always subject to exam board approval). For obvious reasons, re-assessments cannot be the same as the original assessment and so these alternatives are set. In cases where the form of assessment is the same, the content will nevertheless be different.
Original form of assessment | Form of re-assessment | ILOs re-assessed | Timescale for re-assessment |
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Research Essay | 2,000 word essay | 1-3, 5-9 | August/September reassessment period |
Essay | 1,000 word essay | 1-3, 5-9 | August/September reassessment period |
Participation, primarily in seminars | 15 minute viva | 3-5, 6-9 | Term 3 |