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Course Criteria
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5.00 Credits
Seminar. Emphasis is on the social impact of parks and reserves. Integrated conservation and development projects (ICDPs) based on protected areas; alternative ways to derive local social benefits from them. Cases include Yellowstone, Manu, Galápagos, Ngorongoro, and Guanacaste. 5 units, Spr (Durham, W)
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5.00 Credits
(Same as ANTHRO 266A.) Seminar. History, techniques and impacts, institutions for forest management, challenges to maintain indigenous resource bases in a globalizing world, policy framework, and emerging conservation and development alternatives. (HEF IV) GER:DB-SocSci 5 units, Spr (Irvine, D)
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4.00 - 5.00 Credits
(Same as ANTHRO 269. Graduate students register for 269.) The principles and practice of effective communication in science. Grant proposals, conference presentations, and scientific journal articles. Focus is on writing and speaking skills in professional contexts. GER:DB-SocSci 4-5 units, Win (DeGusta, D)
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
(F,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. Ethnographic look at human behavior, including cultural transmission, social organization, sex and gender, culture change, and related topics in N. America. Films. GER:DB-SocSci 3-4 units, Win (Wilcox, M)
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4.00 - 5.00 Credits
(Same as ANTHRO 271.) Language as an evolutionary adaptation of humans. Comparison of communicative behavior in humans and animals, and the inference of evolutionary stages. Structure, linguistic functions, and the evolution of the vocal tract, ear, and brain, with associated disorders (stuttering, dyslexia, autism, schizophrenia) and therapies. Controversies over language centers in the brain and the innateness of language acquisition. Vision, color terminology, and biological explanation in linguistic theory. GER:DB-NatSci 4-5 units, not given this year
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5.00 Credits
(Same as ANTHRO 275, HUMBIO 180.) The human skeleton. Focus is on identification of fragmentary human skeletal remains. Analytical methods include forensic techniques, archaeological analysis, paleopathology, and age/sex estimation. Students work independently in the laboratory with the skeletal collection. GER:DB-NatSci 5 units, Win (DeGusta, D)
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5.00 Credits
(Same as ANTHRO 275B.) Skeletal analytical methods such as paleopathology, taphonomy, osteometry, and functional and evolutionary morphology. Strategies for osteological research. Students conduct independent projects in their area of interest. GER:DB-NatSci 5 units, Spr (DeGusta, D)
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3.00 - 5.00 Credits
(Same as ANTHRO 277, HUMBIO 114.) The changing epidemiological environment. How human-induced environmental changes, such as global warming, deforestation and land-use conversion, urbanization, international commerce, and human migration, are altering the ecology of infectious disease transmission, and promoting their re-emergence as a global public health threat. Case studies of malaria, cholera, hantavirus, plague, and HIV. (HEF III; DA-C) GER:DB-SocSci 3-5 units, not given this year
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5.00 Credits
For upper division undergraduates. The extent and pattern of variation among human genomes, the origin of these patterns in human evolution, and the social and medical impact of recent discoveries. Topics include: the Human Genome Project; human origins; ancient DNA; genetic, behavioral, linguistic, cultural, and racial diversity; the role of disease in shaping genetic diversity; DNA forensics; genes and reproductive technology. GER:DB-NatSci 5 units, Spr (Jobin, M)
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5.00 Credits
History, politics, science, and anthropology of cancer; political and economic issues of disease and health care in the U.S., including the ethics and economics of health care provision, the pharmaceutical industry, carcinogen production, and research priorities. 5 units, Win (Jain, S)
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