Health; Identity and Social Change - HIB1043

Assessment 1: Written draft

Students will be able to get feedback on a 350 word draft outline of the blog post they intend to submit for summative assessment.

Written Draft

Assessment 2: Written Assignment

Written Assignment

Assessment 1: Written Assignment

Individual ‘academic’ blog post of 800 words relating to a contemporary health issue.

You will examine a range of health related topics in contemporary society in the context of culture, society and policy. Drawing on a range of perspectives, you will investigate health and identity, weight, media, risk, power relations within medical encounters and emerging new directions in health and medicine.
The module will enable students to critically examine a range of health related topics in contemporary society from cultural, social and political perspectives and to apply diverse theoretical approaches, for instance, Marxist, liberal, feminist, functionalist, political economy and post-structural. Students will learn how health and health related understandings and practices inform and intersect with identity in contemporary society and link with social change.

School of Human and Health Sciences

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HIB1043 - Health; Identity and Social Change

Health; Identity and Social Change

Identify and analyse a contemporary health issue.

Effectively communicate information, arguments and analysis relating to a contemporary health issue in the style of an academic blog.

Appreciate how health related understandings and practices are linked to identity and to social change.

Critically apply sociological perspectives in relation to health and related issues.