SOCI 3341 - The Body and Society

Prerequisite: SOCI 1113. An examination of the human body as a socio-cultural project in which individuals carry shared (or not shared) meanings of ideal bodies with varying strategies of presenting, modifying, and interpreting bodies. The course will explore how factors like aging, gender, sexuality, race, medicalization, psychology, education, and disability influence how social meanings of the body are constructed, altered, and discarded. 3 credits.