RENEE L PENNINGTON portrait
  • Assistant Professor (Lecturer), Anthropology Department
801-581-6251

Current Courses

Fall 2024

  • ANTH 5234-001
    Population Issues Anthr
    Location: GC 5750 (GC 5750)
  • ANTH 6334-001
    Population Issues Anthr

Spring 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

  • Anth 5234/6334 - 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 - 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.