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Description of Individual Course Units| Course Unit Code | Course Unit Title | Type of Course Unit | Year of Study | Semester | Number of ECTS Credits | | TDE3099 | 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) | |
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| 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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