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Sensorium: Perceptual Ecologies (PHIL70003)
Graduate coursework level 7Points: 12.5Not available in 2018
Overview
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This interdisciplinary subjects focuses on making connections between traditionally distinct knowledge domains surrounding the human body and its perceptual faculties. Using the arts as a lens through which to explore a range of discourses from the sciences, medicine, law, philosophy and religious and mystical traditions, students will explore various dimensions and understandings of the of the human body and its systems of perception. Particular emphasis will be placed on how artists negotiate cultural diversity and protocols about sexual difference, clothing, ritual and customs. As with other subjects in this course students will actively engage in the translation and transformation of their research through their art practices.
Intended learning outcomes
This subject aims to provide students with an overview of the range of beliefs, attitudes and protocols surrounding the human body across cultures, familiarity with the ways artists have negotiated understandings and representations of the body; confidence to deal with a range of culturally shifting perspectives on the body and perceptual systems that generate new and culturally sensitive modes of representation.
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