Anthropology Body, Sex and Food - Hawaii Pacific University

Anthropology Body, Sex and Food from Hawaii Pacific University is a Campus Certificate Behavioral Sciences degree that prepares you for a Science career. With the advent of mass marketing, music videos and cable television, today's youth culture is saturated with images and ideas that locate power, prestige and desire firmly within consumer culture and the iconic male and female bodies that symbolize and fetishize it. This certificate seeks to give students the intellectual skills to interrogate the human body as a site of many different levels of cultural activity. In contrast to the idea of bodies and their appetites as passive vehicles for advertising, this certificate will encourage students to investigate and reflect critically on the ways in which the body and its appetites are used to construct, challenge and reflect social and cultural ideals. By looking at both cultural and biological perspectives on the body, bodily practice and the ways in which bodies are objectified, utilized and experienced, students will gain an appreciation for the way in which the human body acts as a focus for important cultural, social and political activity. The scope of this certificate is broad, ranging from issues surrounding the maintenance of the body such as the meanings and uses of food , to the sociology of the performing arts, to uses of massed bodies in collective action from demonstrations to massacres and memorials. Relevant to majors in Anthropology, the Humanities, International Studies, Political Science, Social Work, Communication, Psychology, and Sociology. View more details on Hawaii Pacific University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Behavioral Sciences courses.