Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
General Anthropology
Other languages of instruction: Catalan
Teaching staff
Students may contact teachers by appointment through e-mail
Introduction
With the growing scientific developments - technicians in the field of nursing require the professional to know how to integrate the knowledge of human sciences so to avoid a fragmented view of the patient and to overcome the dehumanizing limitations technological responses have towards diseases. Anthropology is a theoretical and practical resource that helps to acquire a coherent and complete idea of the human person and as well as recognise a variety of existential dimensions such as: physical, mental, social, and spiritual aspects of a person, and linking each of them properly.
The concepts of health and disease, suffering or pain, are to be understood in the light of a global vision of the person, taking into account, at the same time, their vulnerable condition and personal dignity.
The nursing practice raises questions that require having previously made a reflection on the person, their possibilities and their limits to acting on the topics rigorously addressed in anthropology.
Main languaje: spanish
Other languajes: catalan
Pre-course requirements
Not required
The Department of Nursing in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences has agreed that it is compulsory for all students taking a Bachelor's degree in Nursing, when participating in online classes, to turn on their camera and remain visible to lecturers and professors at all times.
Objectives
- Consider critically and reflectively on the interpretations of the human being which prevails in our socio-cultural system, taking into account its implications of the conceptions of health and disease, pain and suffering.
- Achieve a global outlook of the human person, as a complex and multidimensional reality, and considering, with a level of philosophical reflection, the numerous results achieved thanks to the current development of the various biological, human and social sciences.
- Provide conceptual tools to analyze and value the various problems, which are presented to human existence in the contemporary world, with a special emphasis on the way those relate to the health world in situations of dependence, vulnerability or fragility of the human being.
Competences/Learning outcomes of the degree programme
- 11. E - Establish effective communication with patients, families, social groups and partners and promote health education.
- 19. B - Ability to make decisions based on critical thinking and reflective practice.
- 20. B - Multidisciplinary teamwork
- 21. B - Oral and written communication.
- 23. B - Ability to analyze and synthesize.
- 24. G - Ability to work autonomously.
- 25. E - Knowledge of the field of study
- 4. B - Understand the interactive behavior of the person according to their gender, group or community, within their social and multicultural context.
- 7. B - Understand people without prejudice, considering their physical, psychological and social aspects, as autonomous and independent individuals, ensuring respect for their opinions, beliefs and values, ensuring their right to privacy through confidentiality and professional secrecy.
Learning outcomes of the subject
- Understand and incorporate the basics of anthropological knowledge in professional language.
- Know how to reason the fundamentals of being and acting as a person, so that they can responsibly assume the ethical implications of their health practise.
- Be responsible for the tasks that are given to you.
- Assess the needs that dignify interpersonal relationships, with special influence in the health sector.
- Be able to accept and understand the transcendent sense of pain and death.
- In the context of a pluralistic society, one must develop a willingness to discuss, with an open attitude, different anthological proposals while being critical and reflexive.
Syllabus
Unit 1. Anthropological knowledge and reductionisms
Unit 2. Nature, culture and care
Unit 3. Person and dignity
Unit 4. Human behavior: desires, tendencies and freedom
Unit 5. Affectivity
Unit 6. Human relationships
Unit 7. Body and embodyment
Unit 8. Illness
Unit 9. Pain
Unit 10. Death
Teaching and learning activities
In person
This course is taught through theory sessions (lectures) and practical seminars sessions. The content of the lectures will consist of the development of the main topics and concepts of the course listed on the syllabus. In what refers to practical classes, they are mainly based on the critical analysis of texts and audiovisual documents that are intended to illustrate and explore the concepts explained above.
Evaluation systems and criteria
In person
The evaluation is comprised of 3 parts:
• Mid-course exam: 30%
• Final exam: 50%
• Seminar: 20%
In order to calculate the final mark of the course, it is necessary to have passed the final exam.
2nd Call: the mark obtained in the 2nd call exam will be the final mark of the course. In this call, no honorary registrations will be conceded.
Access to the final exam will not be allowed once it has begun.
Copying, falsifying or cheating on Individual or Team Written Papers, Class Attendance, Written or Oral Examinations is a fault that will result in immediate failure of the course. In case of repetition, a disciplinary file will be opened against the author. See: NORMATIVA DE RÉGIMEN disciplinario de los Estudiantes Universitat Internacional de Catalunya. CHAPTER I. OF DISCIPLINARY OFFENCES. Article 2. g) h).
Bibliography and resources
Basic:
YEPES STORK, R., Fundamentos de antropología. Un ideal de excelencia humana, Eunsa, Pamplona, 1996.
ARREGU,V.; J. Y CHOZA J; Filosofía del hombre. Una antropología de la intimidad, Instituto de Ciencias para la Familia, Rialp, Madrid, 1995.
LANGLOIS, IBAÑEZ., Introducción a la antropología, Pamplona, Eunsa, 1989.
LOMBO, J.S, GIMÉNEZ AMAYA, J.M., Biología racionalidad. El carácter distintivo del cuerpo humano. Eunsa, Pamplona, 2016.
SELLÉS, JF., Antropología para inconformes, Instituto de Ciencias para la Familia, Rialp, Madrid, 2006.
Consultation:
ANRUBIA, E. (ed.), La fragilidad de los hombres. La enfermedad, la filosofía y la muerte, Ed. Cristiandad, Madrid, 2008.
ARREGUI, Jorge V. El horror de morir. Tibidabo, Barcelona 1992.
ESCRIBANO, X. (ed.), Territoris humans de la salut. Societat, cultura i valors en el món sanitari, Ed. Dux, Barcelona, 2008.
BUBER, M., ¿Qué es el hombre?, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Madrid, 1986.
GEHLEN, A., El hombre. Su naturaleza y su lugar en el mundo, Sígueme, Salamanca, 1987.
GONZÁLEZ GARCÍA, M. (comp.), Filosofía y dolor; Madrid: Tecnos, 2006.
GORDILLO, L., Aprender a vivir, aprender a morir, Fundcrea, Alicante, 1998.
HENNEZEL, MARIE de, La muerte íntima, Plaza y Janes, Barcelona,
HILDEBRAND, D., El corazón. Un análisis de la afectividad humana y divina, Madrid, Palabra, 1997.
LEWIS, C. S. Los cuatro amores. Rialp, Mardid 1993.
El problema del dolor. Rialp, Madrid 1994.
LOMBO, J.S, GIMÉNEZ AMAYA, J.M., La unidad de la persona. Aproximación interdisciplinar desde la filosofía y la neurociencia. Eunsa, Pamplona, 2013
Evaluation period
- E1 19/12/2022 10:00h
- R1 25/01/2023 14:00h
- E2 03/07/2023 10:00h
- R2 17/07/2023 10:00h