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 Academic Year:
| 2013/4 |
| Owning Department/School:
| Department of Education |
| Credits:
| 6 |
| Level:
| Intermediate (FHEQ level 5) |
| Period: |
Semester 1 |
| Assessment:
| CW 75%, OT 25% |
| Supplementary Assessment: |
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites:
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| Description:
| Aims: The aim of this unit is to explore and analyse how individual sporting subjectivities, bodies and bodily practices are inextricably related to key sociological characteristics, such as socially defined class, 'race'/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and dis/ability, particularly in relation to identities and differences. Learning Outcomes: On completion of this unit students should: * Be able critically to discuss the relationships between sport, health, the body and the social context; * Critically reflect on their `own sporting subjectivity and corporeal practices; * Engage the reading, writing and interpretive skill required to make informed, insightful and imaginative contributions to the critical analysis of sport, health, the body and identity. Skills: * Read and synthesise information about a complex subject F * Organise information coherently, selecting a form and style of writing appropriate to complex subject matter T/F * The ability to apply critical reasoning through independent thought and judgment T/F/A * The ability to interact effectively with others in order to work towards a common outcome. F Content: The following topics areas will be covered: sporting embodiment, gendered sporting subjectivity; the 'racialised'/'ethnicised' sporting body; the injured sporting body and identity work; (dis)ability and chronically ill bodies in sport; the lived sporting body and subjectivity. |
| Programme availability: |
ED20416 is Optional on the following programmes:Department of Education
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