ANTHROPOLOGY 2202-30

Summer 2006

(Online)

Introduction to Physical Anthropology

3 credits

(Meets Minnesota Transfer Credit Goals 5 and 10)

 

Ø      Do you want to gain unique insights to human behavior, learning, and culture?

Ø      Do you want to know what scientific evolution is all about?

Ø      Would you like to learn about the amazing structure of the human skeleton and how it makes us the successful physical machine that we are?

Ø      Do you want to know how life was like for humans and their ancestors living 20,000 and more years ago?

Ø      Would you like to have some idea why more than 6,000,000,000 humans on planet Earth can be so different and yet so much the same?

Ø      Are you ready to study both biological and social processes to gain a unique perspective on the nature of being human?

 

No prerequisite other than natural curiosity required (although completion of high school biology is strongly recommended.)

 

This course will utilize the following textbook:

William A. Haviland, et al. (2005) Evolution and Prehistory: The Human Challenge, 7th ed. Belmont, CA: Thompson Wadsworth.

 

 

Instructor: Dr. Deborah Shepherd, office: B254, phone: 763-433-1195

email: deborah.shepherd@anokaramsey.edu

on the web: http://www.ar.cc.mn.us/shepherd/