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Description:
Introductory laboratory course focusing on scientific methodology to explore/experiment with topics from Anthropology lecture sections. Topics include Mendelian genetics, population genetics, human variability, forensics, medical anthropology, epidemiology, hominin dietary patterns, non-human primates, primate dental and skeletal anatomy, fossil hominins, chronometric dating, environmental challenges to hominins, environmental impact of hominin behavior, general methodologies utilized in physical anthropological research, and the general study of hominins as bio-culturally adapting animals. As an honors course, it is a full thematic seminar with advanced teaching methods focusing on major writing, reading, and research assignments, student class lectures, group discussions and interactions. Material covered will be enhanced and research techniques and methodologies explored in greater depth than in the non-honors version of this course.
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Prerequisite:
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Corequisite:
Completion of or concurrent enrollment in ANTH 1H.
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Advisory:
Advisory: Not open to students with credit in ANTH 1L.
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Repeatability:
Not Repeatable.
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Hours:
3 hours lab per week. 36 hours total per quarter.
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Foothill GE Area:English
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Transferability:
Both
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Transfer GE:
Information regarding how this course is applied toward CSU GE/Breadth or IGETC certification is available at:
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Foothill Transfer GE Guide
Department Note:
For more information about the online anthropology degree, see
foothill.edu/onlinelearning/students/aa_courses/aa_anthropology.html.
