Faculty of Education and Arts

School: Education

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Physical Activity, Body, Culture and Identity
  • Unit Code

    HPE2112
  • Year

    2015
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

Description

This unit presents varying sociocultural constructions of physical activity, the body, culture and identity in contemporary society. The construction of self through holistic, masculine/feminine and commodification perspectives within a physical activity context will be major foci. These perspectives will inform students' reflections on their direct engagement in practical activities such as weight training/conditioning, aerobics/dance and related body/identity/self-presentation management strategies as significant individual and cultural practices. Students who have completed HPE2112 are not eligible to enrol in YWK2112

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. How individual pursuits in selected areas such as aerobics, weight training, eastern movement forms and martial arts affect personal meaning.
  2. How schools, gyms, sports, the media and other cultural players, locally and globally, do ideological work that focuses on physical activity and the body.
  3. Research methods employed in sociocultural research.
  4. The changed forms and significance of physical activity as a cultural practice throughout history.
  5. The nature of how human movement can be studied and understood through the 'lenses' provided by the social sciences.
  6. The notion of the body in culture.
  7. The uses of sociocultural research in studies of selected physical activities.

Unit Content

  1. Body image and health.
  2. Contemporary health inquiry (selected issue).
  3. Introductory social theory.
  4. Physical activity and health.
  5. Sociological perspectives on the determinants of health.
  6. Youth culture and health.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, workshops, practical sessions, student presentations and web-managed instruction.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
TestMid-semester test20%
Research PaperSmall-scale contemporary health inquiry60%
ExaminationExamination20%

Text References

  • ^ Kidd, W. Culture and identity. Basingstoke/Palgrage.

Journal References

  • Macdonald, D., & Kirk, D. (1999). Pedagogy, the body and Christian identity. Sport, Education and Society, 4. (2): 131-142.
  • McGuire, B., & Collins, D. (1998). Sport, ethnicity and racism: The experience of Asian heritage boys. Sport, Education & Society, 3. (1): 79-89.
  • Kirk, D. (1990 March). Knowledge, Science and the Rise and Rise of human movement studies. The ACHPER National Journal 8-18.

^ Mandatory reference


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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Faculty of Education and Arts

School: Education

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Physical Activity, Body, Culture and Identity
  • Unit Code

    HPE2112
  • Year

    2015
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

Description

This unit presents varying sociocultural constructions of physical activity, the body, culture and identity in contemporary society. The construction of self through holistic, masculine/feminine and commodification perspectives within a physical activity context will be major foci. These perspectives will inform students' reflections on their direct engagement in practical activities such as weight training/conditioning, aerobics/dance and related body/identity/self-presentation management strategies as significant individual and cultural practices. Students who have completed HPE2112 are not eligible to enrol in YWK2112

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. How individual pursuits in selected areas such as aerobics, weight training, eastern movement forms and martial arts affect personal meaning.
  2. How schools, gyms, sports, the media and other cultural players, locally and globally, do ideological work that focuses on physical activity and the body.
  3. Research methods employed in sociocultural research.
  4. The changed forms and significance of physical activity as a cultural practice throughout history.
  5. The nature of how human movement can be studied and understood through the 'lenses' provided by the social sciences.
  6. The notion of the body in culture.
  7. The uses of sociocultural research in studies of selected physical activities.

Unit Content

  1. Body image and health.
  2. Contemporary health inquiry (selected issue).
  3. Introductory social theory.
  4. Physical activity and health.
  5. Sociological perspectives on the determinants of health.
  6. Youth culture and health.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, workshops, practical sessions, student presentations and web-managed instruction.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
TestMid-semester test20%
Research PaperSmall-scale contemporary health inquiry60%
ExaminationExamination20%

Text References

  • ^ Kidd, W. Culture and identity. Basingstoke/Palgrage.

Journal References

  • Macdonald, D., & Kirk, D. (1999). Pedagogy, the body and Christian identity. Sport, Education and Society, 4. (2): 131-142.
  • McGuire, B., & Collins, D. (1998). Sport, ethnicity and racism: The experience of Asian heritage boys. Sport, Education & Society, 3. (1): 79-89.
  • Kirk, D. (1990 March). Knowledge, Science and the Rise and Rise of human movement studies. The ACHPER National Journal 8-18.

^ Mandatory reference


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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