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East/West: Space, Time, Body (ASIA70001)

Graduate coursework level 7Points: 12.5Not available in 2017

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This seminar looks at the traditional divide between Eastern and Western cultures, values, beliefs and how these find expression in the arts. Themes explored include scientific and spiritual cosmologies; medical traditions; anatomical and holistic bodies; rational paradigms and mysticism; martial arts, cybernetics and body modification. This seminar includes both theoretical and practice based workshops in meditation and tai chi, and other movement traditions.

Intended learning outcomes

This subject aims to introduce students to key distinctions and paradigm shifts in Eastern and Western cultural systems and beliefs. Students will research intersections between traditional divides that will enable them to reconceptualise cultural difference in order to forge strong connections to international artists and institutions.

Generic skills

On completing this subject students will have:

• the ability to communicate, cooperate and collaborate in a range of cultural contexts internationally;
• a deep awareness of and respect for cultural differences, protocols and aspirations;
• the ability to generate and promote intercultural dialogue through the arts;
• an ability to initiate research projects and develop highly innovative and experimental modes of representation and communication;
• a high level of understanding and appreciation of transnational practices across the art form;
• the capacity to interpret and translate into clear English a range of discipline-specific vocabularies and languages ;
• a capacity for innovative and original thinking marked by well-developed and flexible problem-solving abilities;
• the capacity to clearly communicate the results of research and scholarship by oral and written communication;
• a profound respect for truth and intellectual integrity, and for the ethics of research and scholarship;
• a capacity to cooperate and collaborate with people across all national, social and cultural divides.

Last updated: 3 November 2022