Notice
As part of Phase 3 of our return to campus plan, most units will now run tutorials, seminars and other small group learning activities on campus for the second half-year, while keeping an online version available for those students unable to return or those who choose to continue their studies online.
To check the availability of face to face activities for your unit, please go to timetable viewer. To check detailed information on unit assessments visit your unit's iLearn space or consult your unit convenor.
Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Kalpana Ram
Tutor
Sophiya Sharma
Payel Ray
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Credit points |
Credit points
10
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
(ANTH150 or ANTH1050) or 40cp at 1000 level or above
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This course introduces us to a perspective on illness and healing that opens up when we give central importance to human experiences of what it is to be ill or to be healed. This means that we do not necessarily have to choose between biology and sociology, between individual and culture. These elements get integrated – and this is insight comes through in the more holistic understandings of “alternative” therapies as well as in the accounts we have of healing traditions from around the world. But how and where does this integration occur? To answer this, we need to refer to experience, both individual and collective. The course will therefore give priority to richly experiential accounts made available in ethnographies, as well as in other kinds of writing such as literature and introduce us to a perspective called phenomenology. As we seek to understand the wide variety of ways in which different cultural histories have understood what it means to be ill or to be healed, we will necessarily go deeper into some of anthropology’s most fundamental challenge – it tells us that what it means to be ‘human’ is fundamentally a relationship to the world around us, and that world has been understood in very different ways across time and place. |
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On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Use the Course Outline that will be on ILearn for updated details on all assessment
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Essay | 40% | No | Week 6 2/9/20 |
Tutorial participation in non-synchronous time. | 20% | No | submission on iLearn weekly |
Book Review | 40% | No | Week 12 30/10/20 |
Assessment Type 1: Essay
Indicative Time on Task 2: 20 hours
Due: Week 6 2/9/20
Weighting: 40%
Essay describing and analyzing illness experience or illness community
Assessment Type 1: Participatory task
Indicative Time on Task 2: 8 hours
Due: submission on iLearn weekly
Weighting: 20%
Non-synchronous assessable component: Students will submit a weekly summary and answers to generic questions (pre-distributed), that allow tutorial convenors to assess comprehension and critical understanding of the week’s lecture and reading.
500 words, to be marked by tutors.
Assessment Type 1: Report
Indicative Time on Task 2: 20 hours
Due: Week 12 30/10/20
Weighting: 40%
Students will be given a list of 3 ethnographies which contain rich description of healing/illness. Using questions that relate the book to key concepts covered in lectures, students write a review of 3000 words.
1 If you need help with your assignment, please contact:
2 Indicative time-on-task is an estimate of the time required for completion of the assessment task and is subject to individual variation
Weekly pre recorded lectures on ILearn
Weekly tutorial either on campus or zoom (fewer zooms available due to budget cuts)
Readings either on ILearn as pdf in early part of course or on Leganto link on ILearn page
Course outline showing readings to be done etc.
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