ANTH 0620 - BIOCULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course considers what it means to be human by examining the relationships between biology, culture and environment in both present and past human populations. Topics of discussion are grounded in the human adaptability paradigm, which examines human populations’ behavioral, physiological, developmental, epigenetic, and genetic adaptations to environmental stressors. Topics include human diet, ecology, life course, adaptations to extreme environments, health and medicine, sport, natural/supernatural, and postmortem interventions. An understanding and appreciation of human biological and cultural variation are stressed.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Social Science General Ed. Requirement, Global Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.

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