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Description of Individual Course UnitsCourse Unit Code | Course Unit Title | Type of Course Unit | Year of Study | Semester | Number of ECTS Credits | TDE309.9B | Body Folklore/Ethnography of Behavior | Elective | 3 | 5 | 3 |
| Level of Course Unit | First Cycle | Objectives of the Course | To introduce the definitions, theories and approaches of the body and embodiment as an organic material, socio-cultural construct, medium and way of expression, symbolic and metaphorical phenomenon, lived experience, political discourse and power, personal identity project, performance and scientific analitical category ; and to provide students historical, contextual and functional knowledge and analytical framework about the onthological, epistemological and phenomenological aspects of the body. | Name of Lecturer(s) | DOÇ. DR. TUĞBA AKKOYUN | Learning Outcomes | 1 | He applies the cultural analyzes that he studied as a model at the undergraduate level in his own research subjects and deepens his knowledge; Develops specialist knowledge in different fields of Social Sciences and Fine Arts. |
| Mode of Delivery | Normal Education | Prerequisites and co-requisities | | Recommended Optional Programme Components | | Course Contents | Definitions of the body; biological, social, cultural, economical, political and individula aspects of the body
The Body in the Western philosophy: tomb, temple, machine, organism and social construct
The Body in Islamic Cultures
The Body in traditional, feudal, modern and postmodern societies
Body Modifications, Adornments and Rituals; Body senses, Body forms, Body techniques, Body parts, Body process, Body products
Naturalistic-Essentialist Theory, Socially Constructive Theory, Symbolical Interactionism, Performance Theory, Phenomenology, Feminist-Queer Theory, Postmodern Theory
Postmodern, performative, queer, modern primitivist, cyborg, consumer, identity project bodies. | Weekly Detailed Course Contents | |
1 | Definitions of the body; biological, social, cultural, economical, political and individula aspects of the body | | | 2 | The Body in the Western philosophy and culture | | | 3 | ThE Body in Non-Western and Islamic Culture | | | 4 | Body perceptions, techniques and modifications in traditional cultures and societies | | | 5 | What is modern and postmodern? What is the perception of the body in these societies? | | | 6 | Decorating, changing and shaping the body, bodily sensations, body techniques, parts of the body, processes related to the body, bodily products | | | 7 | Body Theories and Approaches: Essentialist Theory, Social Construction Theory, Phenomenology | | | 8 | MIDTERM EXAM | | | 9 | Body Theories and Approaches: Symbolic Interactionism and Performance Theory | | | 10 | Feminist Movement and Theory: Gendered Body, Deconstructive Bodies | | | 11 | Post-Structural Theory: Michel Foucault, Discourse-Power Relations and the Docile Bodies | | | 12 | Postmodernism, Capitalism, Consumer Culture, Bodies as Identity Projects | | | 13 | Technology and Cyborg-Hybrid Bodies | | | 14 | Stigmatized, Deviant, Sick, Disabled, Contradictory and Rebellious Bodies | | | 15 | Stigmatized, Deviant, Sick, Disabled, Contradictory and Rebellious Bodies | | | 16 | final | | |
| Recommended or Required Reading | John, S. Simon Human Body and Folklore, Lap Lambert Academic Publ. | Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods | | Assessment Methods and Criteria | |
Midterm Examination | 1 | 100 | SUM | 100 | |
Final Examination | 1 | 100 | SUM | 100 | Term (or Year) Learning Activities | 40 | End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities | 60 | SUM | 100 |
| Language of Instruction | Turkish | Work Placement(s) | |
| Workload Calculation | |
Midterm Examination | 1 | 1 | 1 | Final Examination | 1 | 2 | 2 | Individual Study for Mid term Examination | 1 | 5 | 5 | Individual Study for Final Examination | 1 | 12 | 12 | Homework | 5 | 14 | 70 | |
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes | | * Contribution Level : 1 Very low 2 Low 3 Medium 4 High 5 Very High |
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