SPECIAL NOTE:
may be taken as a Gender Studies unit; offered in even-numbered years
OFFERINGS
Not Offered
DESCRIPTION
Analyses the various ways in which the body has been depicted in Western visual culture, examining the changing social and cultural meanings which have been invested in the body both in past and in contemporary imagery. The unit covers such topics as: the portrait; the female and male nude; non-Western bodies; the mechanical body; the medicalised body; the body as political symbol and the sacred body.
WEIGHT:
12.5%
ASSESSMENT: 2,500-word essay (60%), tutorial presentation with associated 2,000-word tutorial paper (40%)
Units are offered in attending mode unless otherwise indicated (that is attendance is required at the campus identified). A unit identified as offered by distance, that is there is no requirement for attendance, is identified with a nominal enrolment campus. A unit offered to both attending students and by distance from the same campus is identified as having both modes of study.
Campus - H Hobart, L Launceston, W Burnie. Study Centre - V Sydney, R Rozelle. Distance units may also have a campus identifier of I Isolated, N Interstate, O Overseas. Units delivered in Transnational Education (TNE) Programs have a campus identifier of A Hangzhou, F Fuzhou, G Shanghai, J Indonesia, K KDU Malaysia, Q Kuwait or Z New Zealand.
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