Current Courses
Spring 2025
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ANTH 5433-001
Maternal & Child Health -
ANTH 6433-001
Maternal & Child Health
Fall 2024
Teaching Philosophy
School should teach students to be independent learners. Students should learn how to find information, evaluate its credibility and include it in their worldview.
Courses I Teach
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Anth 5234/6334
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Population Issues in Anthropology
This class is about the history and dynamics of the human population. Topics include changes in numbers of people and their age distributions; land use, residence patterns and density; epidemiology of pre-and post-industrial cultures; warfare and violence; genetic evolution, the industrial revolution, and its consequences. -
Anth 5433/6433
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Maternal and Child Health
This class is course in human evolution. It elucidates ancestral patterns of reproduction and parenting in our species, including identiļ¬cation of basic mammalian and primate biology, energetic costs of pregnancy and lactation and cross-cultural comparisons of child care. Because humans are mammals, the core unit of measurement is the mother-infant pair.
SyllabusAnth5234fall2022.pdf