Pop-culture shapes perceptions and experiences of the human body. This class looks at popular ways of training; portraying; and understanding the body in the 20th and early-21st centuries including: physical culture and fitness; advertising and mainstream medical science. Through a theoretical and embodied survey of these worlds; students learn about how popular Western thought on bodies and movement influences perceptions of the body—what it can do and how we experience physicality.
Prerequisites
Be in the Honors Program