THB649 - BODY and FOLKLORE
| Course Name | Code | Semester | Theory (hours/week) |
Application (hours/week) |
Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BODY and FOLKLORE | THB649 | Fall | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| Prequisites | ||||||
| Course language | English | |||||
| Course type | Elective | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-Face | |||||
| Learning and teaching strategies | Lecture Discussion Field Trip Preparing and/or Presenting Reports Case Study | |||||
| Instructor (s) | ||||||
| Course objective | 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. | |||||
| Learning outcomes |
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| Course Content | ? 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. | |||||
| References | ? John, S. Simon Human Body and Folklore, Lap Lambert Academic Publ. ? Young, Katharine 1993 Bodylore, Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press. ? Turner, Bryan S. 1992 Regulating Bodies: Essays In Medical Sociology. London: Routledge Publ. ? Turner, Brayan S. 1996 The Body & Society. London: Sage Publ. ? Shilling, Chris 1993 The Body and Social Theory. Sage Publ. ? Shilling, Chris 2005 The Body In Culture, Technology And Socıety. Sage Publ. ? Turner, Bryan S. (Ed.) 2012 Routledge Handbook of Body Studies. Routledge Publ. ? Davis, Kathy 1997 Embodied Practices: Feminist Perspectives on The Body, Ed. By Kathy Davis, London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi: Sage Publications. ? Featherstone, Mike 2000 Body Modification, Ed. Mike Featherstone, Oxford: Sage Publ. ? Shildrick, Margrit and Price, Janet 1999 Feminist Theory and The Body: A Reader, Ed by. Shildrick, Margrit and Price, Janet, Routledge Publ. | |||||
Course outline weekly
| Weeks | Topics |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Definitions of the body; biological, social, cultural, economical, political and individula aspects of the body |
| Week 2 | The Body in the Western philosophy and culture: tomb, temple, machine, organism and social construct |
| Week 3 | Th Body in Non-Western and Islamic Culture |
| Week 4 | Body perceptions, techniques and modifications in traditional cultures and societies |
| Week 5 | The Body in modern and postmodern culture and society |
| Week 6 | Ara sınav |
| Week 7 | Body Modifications, Adornments and Rituals; Body senses, Body forms, Body techniques, Body parts, Body process, Body products |
| Week 8 | Body Theories and Approaches: Essentialist Theory, Social Construction Theory, Phenomenology |
| Week 9 | Body Theories and Approaches: Symbolic Interactionism and Performance Theory |
| Week 10 | Feminist Movement and Theory: Gendered Body, Deconstructive Bodies |
| Week 11 | Ara sınav |
| Week 12 | Post-Structural Theory: Michel Foucault, Discourse-Power Relations and the Docile Bodies |
| Week 13 | Postmodernism, Capitalism, Consumer Culture, Bodies as Identity Projects |
| Week 14 | Technology and Cyborg-Hybrid Bodies |
| Week 15 | Stigmatized, Deviant, Sick, Disabled, Contradictory and Rebellious Bodies |
| Week 16 | Final Exam |
Assesment methods
| Course activities | Number | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 14 | 5 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 |
| Assignments | 1 | 15 |
| Presentation | 0 | 0 |
| Project | 0 | 0 |
| Seminar | 0 | 0 |
| Midterms | 1 | 20 |
| Final exam | 1 | 60 |
| Total | 100 | |
| Percentage of semester activities contributing grade succes | 1 | 40 |
| Percentage of final exam contributing grade succes | 1 | 60 |
| Total | 100 | |
WORKLOAD AND ECTS CALCULATION
| Activities | Number | Duration (hour) | Total Work Load |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Duration (x14) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 2 | 20 | 40 |
| Study Hours Out of Class (Preliminary work, reinforcement, ect) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Presentation / Seminar Preparation | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Homework assignment | 1 | 30 | 30 |
| Midterms (Study duration) | 1 | 26 | 26 |
| Final Exam (Study duration) | 1 | 30 | 30 |
| Total Workload | 33 | 112 | 210 |
Matrix Of The Course Learning Outcomes Versus Program Outcomes
| D.9. Key Learning Outcomes | Contrubition level* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest