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KNPE 367 Fitness, the Body, and Culture Units: 3.00
This course looks at the ways that notions of fitness are tied to historically specific ideas about the body. The course focuses on ideas about race, class, gender, ability and sexuality while addressing the politics of fitness and exercise and their relationship to social, economic, and cultural institutions.
Learning Hours: 129 (36 Lecture, 9 Laboratory, 84 Private Study)
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Reflect on the meaning of fitness and physical activity in everyday life.
- Investigate fitness, exercise and bodies as not just physical but also complex cultural, historical, economic and political phenomena.
- Reflect on embodiment as both concept and experience.
- Apply the art of asking good questions.
- Apply advanced skills in reading, writing, speaking, and analysis, especially the identification, assessment and construction of arguments.
- Model ethical, collaborative, and professional behaviour in group work.