HL30561: The science of physical sensation
[Page last updated: 03 June 2024]
| Academic Year: | 2024/25 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department for Health |
| Credits: | 7.5 [equivalent to 15 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 150 |
| Level: | Honours (FHEQ level 6) |
| Period: |
- Semester 2
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| Assessment Summary: | CWRI 100% |
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
Before taking this module you must take HL10521 AND take HL10522 AND take HL10525 AND take HL20535
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| Learning Outcomes: |
- Discuss how experience of physical sensation plays a role in broader health behaviours
- Critically evaluate, interrogate, and defend relevant theoretical models, including extended mind and brain centric positions
- Apply both functionalist and phenomenological approaches to interpreting bodily experiences
- Appraise how the study of 'extreme' bodily experiences can influence our understanding of normal bodily experiences
- Explain both proprioceptive and interoceptive mechanisms of bodily experience, and how they interact with biological, psychological and sociocultural domains
- Translate relevant theoretical frameworks into the critique and development of embodied methods and intervention in the real world.
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| Aims: | To provide students with an in-depth, applied knowledge of the biology, psychology and sociology of bodily experience.
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| Content: | Ten physical sensory systems are explored, from balance to pain. Each sense is explored from a consideration of its function, how it is experienced, and how it defines limits of behaviour. Normal and abnormal experiences will be investigated. How the individual senses are integrated will be explored, gaining an embodied understanding of how we experience our bodies, and experience with our bodies.
We will discuss each sense in relation to the underlying biology, psychology and sociology, grounded in different theoretical models. This knowledge will be extended to explore how we develop novel methodologies and treatment interventions for persistent bodily sensations.
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| Course availability: |
HL30561 is Optional (DEU) on the following courses:
Department for Health
- UHHL-AFB21 : BSc(Hons) Health and Exercise Science (Year 3)
- UHHL-AKB21 : BSc(Hons) Health and Exercise Science with Professional Placement (Year 4)
- UHHL-AFB22 : BSc(Hons) Sport and Exercise Science (Year 3)
- UHHL-ACB22 : BSc(Hons) Sport and Exercise Science with Combined Professional Placement and Study Abroad (Year 4)
- UHHL-AAB22 : BSc(Hons) Sport and Exercise Science with Study year abroad (Year 4)
- UHHL-AKB22 : BSc(Hons) Sport and Exercise Science with Professional Placement (Year 4)
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Notes: - This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2024/25 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2025/26 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2024/25.
- Courses and units are subject to change in accordance with normal University procedures.
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