Perfect Me: Understanding the Beauty Ideal

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Free Online Course: Perfect Me: Understanding the Beauty Ideal provided by FutureLearn is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 2 weeks long, 3 hours a week. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from FutureLearn. Perfect Me: Understanding the Beauty Ideal is taught by Heather Widdows.

Overview
  • Learn how and why a global beauty ideal has been created

    The quest to look beautiful, or just ‘good enough’, is something that drives and dominates people all over the world. The rise of body image anxiety has become a global epidemic and the need to be perfect or be better is becoming an ethical requirement.

    On this course, you will discover the features and differences of the emerging global beauty ideal. You will explore the role of ‘normal’ and how beauty as an ethical ideal defines the way you view yourself and others. You will also look to the future and learn how the rising demands of beauty can be addressed in a more positive way.

    This course is for anyone interested in or studying beauty ideals and practices or global ethics.