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Dec 11, 2024
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KIN 602 - Critical Perspectives on the Body Units: 4 Explores the ways in which the body has been and is culturally created and shaped in a socio-political context. The fields of health/wellness, physical education, and sport will provide spaces to examine ideological influences on the body is represented and understood.
Equivalent Quarter Course: KIN 6435. Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground. Grading: A-F grading only. Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to: - Explain how bodies are symbolically and physically constituted.
- Explain how bodies are marked by race, gender, sexuality and social class discourses.
- Critically examine how exercise, sport, and health ideologies position bodies in particular ways.
- Critically analyze how the media and technology constitute “normal” body practices.
- Evaluate how diverse “spaces” and “places” constitute specific notions of embodiment.
- Apply concepts of “embodied identity” in order to ascertain how bodies reflect moral worth and cultural capital.
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