Universitat Internacional de Catalunya - BarcelonaAnthropology
Matter: HUMANISTIC TRAINING
Main language of instruction: Spanish
Other languages of instruction: Catalan, English
Head instructor
The subject of Anthropology helps foster a complete and coherent idea of the human person. In this way, it is possible to acquire an insight into the many facets of human beings: physical, mental, social and spiritual, as well as their successful integration with each other. Students are also offered the essential learning which a university can provide, enabling them to appreciate that the main challenges and problems they will face in their future professional lives are human in nature.
This course has three main objectives:
1. To acquire a habit of critical reflection, which can be applied to various areas of present and future activity.
2. To think about the human person, its multiple dimensions, and its social nature.
3. To learn how to generate a good attitude towards study, work and life.
At the end of the course, students will be able to:
• Identify the important implications of social and cultural diversity for the understanding of disease and health.
• Understand the importance and limitations of scientific thinking in the study, prevention and management of diseases.
• Reason and argue ideas related to the position of the human being faced with different situations such as illness or death.
• Demonstrate a reasoned knowledge of the human being and its main dimensions.
• Discuss ideas related to anthropology in a critical and self-critical spirit.
Syllabus
1. Philosophical Anthropology and interdisciplinarity
a) Introduction. Philosophical Anthropology and several approaches. Interdisciplinarity. The unity of the Human Being (biology, arts, anthropology and several approaches, music, religion, etc.)
b) Human being. Identity and intimacy. Grounds of Human Life
2. Singularity of the Human Condition
a) Life’s Nature. Grades. Body and Mind
b) Human Being dimensions. Sensibility, affections, intelligence and will. Personality structure. Personality, temper and character
c) Affections and feelings. Feelings: between mind and body. The meaning of feelings. Affections value and integration in Human Life. Feelings, personality and character. Emotional Stability. Self-knowledge and self-identity.
d) Knowledge. Kinds of knowledge. True and relativism.
3. Human Being Actions
a) Ethics and Human Action. True of the actions and relativism.
b) Virtues
c) Freedom. Freedom dimensions. Nature and limitations of human freedom. Freedom and happiness.
d) Happiness and Good.
4. Human being and relationality
A) Love and Friendship
4.1. What is common and to share
4.2. Meaningof love and kinds of
4.3. The Acts of love
4.4. The expressions of love. Love as a gift.
4.5. Excess and lack of love
4.6. Meaning of friendship and kinds of.
B) Sexuality and Human Being
4.7. Human sexuality anthrophological meaning. Sex, nature and culture.
4.7.1. Human sexuality dimensions
5. Human Social Dimension and transformative function of the world
a) Ethics and Politics
b) Society and its institutions. Solidarity and Tolerance.
c) Work
6. Human Being transcendence
a) Human religiosity. Universality of religious experience. Religious rationality. Religious experience.
b) Pain, illness and death
There are two types of classroom-based lectures:
1. Theory classes: lectures given by the teacher, the aim of which is to convey knowledge to the students and to stimulate the process of reflection.
2. Practical classes: the students in the classroom setting are required to analyse and comment on texts and multimedia resources, which guide the practical reflection of the theoretical concepts.
The proportion of the course which each of these two activities take place is as follows: theory classes (50%) and practical classes (50%).
The different kind of sessions requires using distinct evaluation methods. For the theoretical sessions, the evaluation is done through a mid-course exam and a final exam, both written. In these exams both the ability to relate the contents of the different lessons and the capacity to develop original arguments is assessed. The mid-course is a 30% and the final one a 65% of the final mark. Finally, a 5% is for the participation during the lessons.
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