Module ANT3088 for 2021/2
- 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 2021/2 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: | |
|---|---|
| Module-Specific Skills | 1. Critically and 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 demonstrate and develop complex and critical 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 and analyse contemporary sociological and anthropological texts; 4. Display in written and oral form an understanding of the theoretical and critical approaches of these disciplines 5. Appreciate and demonstrate a critical understanding of 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 and develop 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. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Individual class presentation (primarily oral) | 10-15 minutes depending on class size | 1-9 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essay 1 | 25 | 1,000 words | 1-9 | Oral and written |
| Essay 2 (research essay) | 65 | 2,000 words | 1-9 | 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 | 1-9 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Essay 1 | Essay 1 (1,000 words) | 1-9 | August/September reassessment period |
| Essay 2 (research essay) | Essay 2 (2,000 words) | 1-9 | August/September reassessment period |
| Participation, primarily in seminars | 1,000 word essay to be drawn from Essay 2 topics on ELE but not to include a topic already submitted for Essay 2 | 1-9 | August/September reassessment period |
