The Socially Constructed Body ((3 Credits))

Catalog description

This course explores our embodied experience and the ways that culture mediates the way we think about, represent, experience and use the human body. Our bodies and how we experience them are shaped by cultural norms, but the body is also a vehicle for self-expression, which implies innovative use of the body to create individual meaning. Students will develop conceptual tools to analyze the shifting relationships between individual agency and cultural construction, and the multiple meanings of bodies in culture. This course was previously LIB-640657.