Checking date: 25/03/2019


Course: 2019/2020

Inter-disciplinary seminar on body, emotions and culture
(18400)
Bachelor in Cultural Studies (Plan: 435 - Estudio: 364)


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Department assigned to the subject: Humanities: Philosophy, Language, Literature Theory Department

Type: Electives
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

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Description of contents: programme
This workshop is ordered as a multi-disciplinary seminar where it is learned the history and the forms in which the cultural influence of the body concerning its relationship with society is expressed. The workshop deals with topics as emotions, eroticism, and the presentation of body in the most diverse environments, with its marks and signs of identity: 1. The body as a cultural medium 2. Technical and cultural environments as prothesis of identity. 3. Synaesthesia, sensitivity, and phenomenology of the appropriation of the environment 4. The cultural construction of emotions 5. Cultural illnesses 6. Cultural history of the eroticism 7. Body marks and tattoos: identities, emotions and body sings
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 60
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 40

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.