Teaching Responsibility

LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:

Sport and Exercise Sciences

Learning Methods

Lecture
Workshop

Module Offerings

4110SSLN-JAN-MTP

Aims

To provide an introduction to behavioural, social, cultural, political, psychological and environmental issues associating to behaviours related to food choices and health preferences and practices.

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:Contemporary and social issues, such as social class, gender, poverty, education and health inequality and disadvantage as factors in food and lifestyle choices, beliefs, practices and behaviours. Discuss the sociology of the self, gender and the body and relation to social environment and social identity as factors of influence. Freedom and choice as mediated through social, economic and cultural structures. Consider mass media and marketing, and the effect of symbolism, semiotics, ritual, rites and cultural expression. Examine the politics of food, lifestyle and behaviour alongside psychology of food/lifestyle choices.
Module Overview:
This module will provide an introduction to behavioural, social, cultural, political, psychological and environmental issues associated to behaviours related to food choices, health preferences and practices.
Additional Information:This module introduces students to a range of issues that influence food, health and behaviour in context with preferences and practices. Students will thus be able to locate such factors of influence within wider social, cultural and political landscapes. The interdisciplinary nature of the module, (sociology, anthropology, economics, politics etc) demonstrates the varied manner in which topics may be discussed and examined. This will facilitate students' critical and lateral thinking and encourage complimentary modes of analysis.

Assessments

Essay
Centralised Exam