Handbook : Unit informationEdith Cowan University

School: Education

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• Unit Title

  Physical Activity, Body, Culture and Identity

• Unit Code

  HPE2112

• Year

  2017

• Enrolment Period

  2

• Version

  1

• Credit Points

  15

• Full Year Unit

  N

• Mode of Delivery

  On Campus
  

• Unit Coordinator

  Dr Donna Michelle BARWOOD

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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.

Core Reading(s)

• Kidd, W. (2012). Culture and identity (2nd ed.). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

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