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HL30512: Advanced issues in physical activity, health & the body

[Page last updated: 03 May 2022]

Academic Year: 2022/3
Owning Department/School: Department for Health
Credits: 6 [equivalent to 12 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 120
Level: Honours (FHEQ level 6)
Period:
Semester 1
Assessment Summary: CW 100%
Assessment Detail:
  • Coursework Portfolio (CW 100% - Qualifying Mark: 1)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites:
Learning Outcomes: On successful completion of this unit students will be able to:
* Critically evaluate the discursive constitution of (un)healthy & (in)active bodies
* Critically appraise knowledge on the impact of commercialism and the media on the image of the fit/fat body
* Understand how the body, health care technologies and health care settings are variously conceptualized, represented and/or constituted

Aims: To develop understanding of the socially constructed concepts of health and physical activity within contemporary society.

Skills: Analysis of research and reflection (taught, facilitated and assessed)
Independent work (facilitated)
Qualitative research skills (facilitated)
Written communication (facilitated and assessed)
Oral presentation and communication (facilitated)
Working with others (facilitated)
Problem solving (facilitated)
Synthesise information from a variety of sources (facilitated and assessed)
Ability to select and use appropriate ideas to produce a coherent response (taught, facilitated and assessed)

Content: In applying socio/psychological theoretical knowledge to the practices of health and physical activity, students will critically engage with the discursive construction of the physically active bodyaround the following key topics:
* Moral Panic and contemporary health problems,
* The discursive constitution of the (un)healthy and (in)active body
* Health, the body and Schooling
* Public pedagogies and mediatised health
* Disordered and (dis)abled bodies, Engagement with broader cultural artefacts such as art, literature, film, cyberculture will be encouraged to augment learning.

Programme availability:

HL30512 is Optional (DEU) on the following programmes:

Department for Health
  • UHHL-AFB21 : BSc(Hons) Health and Exercise Science (Year 3)
  • UHHL-AKB18 : BSc(Hons) Health and Exercise Science with Professional Placement (Year 4)

Notes:

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