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DRPS : Course Catalogue : School of History, Classics and Archaeology : Economic and Social History

Undergraduate Course: Social History 2.2: The Making of the Modern Body (ECSH08041)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of History, Classics and Archaeology CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 8 (Year 2 Undergraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThis course explores the ways in which the human body has been socially constructed, experienced and regulated in the past. A wide range of 'bodies' are considered, including the male and female body, the degenerate body, the freakish body, the robotic body, and the dead body. The course is intended to be comparative, both geographically and chronologically. The geographic focus is the western body (Britain, Europe and America), with some additional discussion of the British Empire and the colonial body. Chronologically, the course focuses upon the early-modern and modern periods, c.1450 to the present.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements A pass in any first level course achieved no later than August of the previous academic year
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2014/15, Available to all students (SV1) Quota:  None
Course Start Semester 2
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 200 ( Lecture Hours 33, Seminar/Tutorial Hours 10, Summative Assessment Hours 2, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 151 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 60 %, Coursework 25 %, Practical Exam 15 %
Additional Information (Assessment) The course will be assessed by means of one essay of 2000 words (counting for 20% of the final mark), an assignment (counting for 20% of the final mark, including 15% for a group presentation and 5% for a research diary), and a 1.5 hour examination taking place in the April/May diet (counting for 60% of the final mark)
Feedback Not entered
Exam Information
Exam Diet Paper Name Hours & Minutes
Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May)1:30
Resit Exam Diet (August)Resit Paper1:30
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, students should be able to:
- appreciate and evaluate the changing ways in which social, medical and political commentators have conceptualised the human body over time and between places
- demonstrate a reasoned understanding of the key historical debates, theories and approaches encountered in histories of the body
- relate such debates to broader processes of social change
In addition they should be able to:
- show, through essays and examinations, the ability to collect, analyse and compare evidence in order to assemble a structured, coherent and supported argument
- demonstrate, through group presentations, the ability to produce sound, structured and supported arguments, and to process and respond to the arguments of others
- display good time-management and the ability to organize the workload effectively in order to meet the established deadlines

Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Additional Class Delivery Information To attend one tutorial each week.
KeywordsSH2-2
Contacts
Course organiserDr Gayle Davis
Tel:
Email: Gayle.Davis@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Summer Wight
Tel:
Email: Summer.Wight@ed.ac.uk
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