SBS 3310 - Topics in Anthropology

Credits: 3

This junior-level course explores various aspects of Anthropology as a field of study. The course content varies, allowing students to explore specific aspects of Anthropology with greater depth and mastery. Upon successful completion of the course, students demonstrate greater understanding of anthropology and a greater capacity to engage anthropological texts.

Prerequisites: EN 1110 - Composition I

Course Learning Outcomes:

Understand adaptation, evolution, epigenetics, evolutionary medicine, culture, and fitness.
Understand the relationships among disease, genetics, race, and human evolution.
Understand issues associated with traits that no longer fit with the living environment.
Understand the human diet throughout history, how human digestion demonstrates adaptation and issues associated with adaptations regarding the human diet.
Understand anthropological texts to construct understanding of and research hypotheses connecting human evolution, culture, diet, living conditions, and disease.

SBS 3310 Course Learning Outcome Rubric