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Teaching Biopolitics to Humanities Students

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

Hiram Caton
Hiram Caton*
Affiliation:
School of Humanities, Griffith University Nathan, Brisbane Queensland, Australia, 4111
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Abstract

The article describes a course entitled “Biosocial Approaches to Political Theory,” which is currently being taught at Griffith University. Course orientation, pedagogy, assessment strategy, teaching aids, and course bibliography are described. The humanities milieu of the course produced collegial friction whose management by the instructor is discussed. The legitimacy dispute arising from the friction led to a public controversy in the national media. The politics of that dispute are analyzed.

Type
International Aspects of Politics and the Life Sciences
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Politics and the Life Sciences , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , August 1986 , pp. 113 - 121
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Copyright © Association for Politics and the Life Sciences 

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