Exploring the Life-Course - ARTS3883
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
School: School of Social Sciences
Course Outline: School of Social Sciences
Campus: Sydney
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: 24 uoc in either the Sociology and Anthropology or Asian Studies stream
CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
Subject Area: Sociology and Anthropology
This course can also be studied in the following specialisations: Asian Studies
How do individuals experience the process of growing older? Considering a range of different societies, this course examines how the biological language of ageing relates to the cultural language of maturation, youth, adulthood, and old age. Through an investigation of sociological and anthropological theories of the life-course, it examines the social and political processes whereby personhood is acquired and challenged, and with which biographical lives are shaped. Sub-topics are likely to include: childhood and youth; birth and death; embodiment and technology; old age and ageing; temporality and intergenerationality; gender and sexuality.