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ANTH2024 – Mad, Bad, Sad: Cross Cultural Perspectives
2021 – Session 1, Fully online/virtual
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General Information
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| Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
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
How do cultures in different parts of the world determine and understand who is mad, bad or sad? Madness, deviance and other forms of social difference are cultural constructs that vary considerably across both historical period and cultural context. Moreover, these ideas have profound moral implications that become dramatically entwined with people's lived experience, as well as broader socio-political structures. We examine the cultural and social construction of normality, with a focus on what happens when people find themselves outside these bounds. We will explore comparative perspectives on social structures and individual experiences and meaning, examining themes such as 'sanity', mental illness and culture, melancholy and depression, emotions, sexuality, gender norms, and their transgressions. Throughout, we will focus on the social processes of labeling, representation, medicalisation, and stigmatisation associated with these experiences. Ultimately, students will come to understand how difference is constructed and embodied, and become aware of how deviance is surveilled, managed, and constrained in a variety of cultural contexts.
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Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- ULO1: Demonstrate command of anthropological knowledge and theories related to normality, abnormality, and how social difference is constructed and managed within particular social, cultural, political, and environmental contexts.
- ULO2: Analyse comparative ethnographic perspectives on themes related to culture and madness, disorder, deviance, addictions, and mental health.
- ULO3: Identify and analyse the social and cultural factors that make madness a powerful metaphor and site of surveillance within societies.
- ULO4: Apply critical analytic skills to discover how desire and deviance transcend individual bodies and are incited, monitored and regulated within the social body and the body politic.
- ULO5: Demonstrate an ability to analyse and interpret the significance and impact of medicalisation, labelling and stigmatisation.
- ULO6: Analyse and interpret assumptions about other cultures and cultural differences and what is considered ‘natural’ or ‘normal’ human experience.
- ULO7: Demonstrate an ability to analyse the cultural construction of abnormality and difference within public representations of culture, madness and deviance.
General Assessment Information
All assignments are to be submitted through iLearn.
Late submissions: An essay may be submitted up to 7 days late at a penalty of -2% per day. No submissions will be accepted after this point without an approved special consideration request.
Missed quizzes: Quizzes will not be re-opened without an approved special consideration request.
Special consideration requests: For information about how to apply for special consideration, please click here.
Assessment Tasks
| Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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| Take-home exam | 30% | No | 3/5/21 |
| Final Online Quiz | 25% | No | 3-4/6/21 |
| Tutorial Participation | 20% | No | Ongoing from Week 2 |
| Midterm Quiz (online) | 25% | No | 1-2/4/21 |
Take-home exam
Assessment Type 1: Quiz/Test
Indicative Time on Task 2: 21 hours
Due: 3/5/21
Weighting: 30%
Take-home written exam
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Demonstrate command of anthropological knowledge and theories related to normality, abnormality, and how social difference is constructed and managed within particular social, cultural, political, and environmental contexts.
- Identify and analyse the social and cultural factors that make madness a powerful metaphor and site of surveillance within societies.
- Apply critical analytic skills to discover how desire and deviance transcend individual bodies and are incited, monitored and regulated within the social body and the body politic.
- Demonstrate an ability to analyse and interpret the significance and impact of medicalisation, labelling and stigmatisation.
- Analyse and interpret assumptions about other cultures and cultural differences and what is considered ‘natural’ or ‘normal’ human experience.
- Demonstrate an ability to analyse the cultural construction of abnormality and difference within public representations of culture, madness and deviance.
Final Online Quiz
Assessment Type 1: Quiz/Test
Indicative Time on Task 2: 10 hours
Due: 3-4/6/21
Weighting: 25%
A final quiz (multiple choice and/or short answer) that will be completed online.
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Demonstrate command of anthropological knowledge and theories related to normality, abnormality, and how social difference is constructed and managed within particular social, cultural, political, and environmental contexts.
- Identify and analyse the social and cultural factors that make madness a powerful metaphor and site of surveillance within societies.
- Apply critical analytic skills to discover how desire and deviance transcend individual bodies and are incited, monitored and regulated within the social body and the body politic.
- Demonstrate an ability to analyse and interpret the significance and impact of medicalisation, labelling and stigmatisation.
Tutorial Participation
Assessment Type 1: Participatory task
Indicative Time on Task 2: 24 hours
Due: Ongoing from Week 2
Weighting: 20%
Active attendance and engagement with lecture and tutorial materials for on campus students in class. Active attendance and engagement with lecture and tutorial materials via the discussion forums in iLearn for online students.
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Analyse comparative ethnographic perspectives on themes related to culture and madness, disorder, deviance, addictions, and mental health.
- Identify and analyse the social and cultural factors that make madness a powerful metaphor and site of surveillance within societies.
- Demonstrate an ability to analyse and interpret the significance and impact of medicalisation, labelling and stigmatisation.
- Analyse and interpret assumptions about other cultures and cultural differences and what is considered ‘natural’ or ‘normal’ human experience.
- Demonstrate an ability to analyse the cultural construction of abnormality and difference within public representations of culture, madness and deviance.
Midterm Quiz (online)
Assessment Type 1: Quiz/Test
Indicative Time on Task 2: 10 hours
Due: 1-2/4/21
Weighting: 25%
A quiz (multiple choice and/or short answer) that will be completed online.
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Demonstrate command of anthropological knowledge and theories related to normality, abnormality, and how social difference is constructed and managed within particular social, cultural, political, and environmental contexts.
- Identify and analyse the social and cultural factors that make madness a powerful metaphor and site of surveillance within societies.
- Apply critical analytic skills to discover how desire and deviance transcend individual bodies and are incited, monitored and regulated within the social body and the body politic.
- Demonstrate an ability to analyse and interpret the significance and impact of medicalisation, labelling and stigmatisation.
1 If you need help with your assignment, please contact:
- the academic teaching staff in your unit for guidance in understanding or completing this type of assessment
- the Writing Centre for academic skills support.
2 Indicative time-on-task is an estimate of the time required for completion of the assessment task and is subject to individual variation
Delivery and Resources
All resources required to complete this course are available through the iLearn page. Required readings can be found through Leganto and instructions for completing assignments are under the 'Assignments' topic tab on iLearn. Access to a stable internet connection is required for completion of assignments and quizzes in this unit.
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Unit information based on version 2021.03 of the Handbook