SOCI347-17S2 (C) Semester Two 2017

Health, Technologies and Embodiment

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 July 2017
End Date: Sunday, 19 November 2017
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 28 July 2017
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 13 October 2017

Description

This course aims to help students understand some of the linkages between health politics and practices, the experience of embodiment and new technologies and various forms of knowledge production. A critical approach is taken to topics such as the politics of obesity, self-management in health, e-health, virtual embodiments, and social movements in health. Students will learn how to do Foucauldian discourse analysis and will also investigate a health or embodiment question of your own choosing.

Prerequisites

30 points of SOCI including 15 points at 200 level; OR 30 points of SOCI or ANTH at 200 level; OR 30 points of 200 level HLTH; OR 60 points in related subjects including 30 points at 200 level with the approval of the HOD.

Restrictions

SOCI247

Course Coordinator

Anne Scott

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,464.00

International fee $5,950.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .

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