Prerequisites: ENVS 101 or equivalent; please check requirements for declared majors/minors for exceptions.
This course examines human variation through a biocultural approach, with specific attention paid to historical and contemporary ideas of race.We explore genetics and how evolution by natural selection has favored important adaptations, how those specific adaptations have helped humans migrate and survive across the planet's habitats, and socio-cultural and scientific ideas about race that have resulted in inequalities.
Outcomes: Students will gain an understanding of how biocultural approaches help us understand human variation, with specific attention paid to skin color and the idea of race; Students will learn how scientific racism in anthropology contributed to our ideas of race, and how that can be seen in contemporary US society.
This course examines human variation through a biocultural approach, with specific attention paid to historical and contemporary ideas of race.We explore genetics and how evolution by natural selection has favored important adaptations, how those specific adaptations have helped humans migrate and survive across the planet's habitats, and socio-cultural and scientific ideas about race that have resulted in inequalities.
Outcomes: Students will gain an understanding of how biocultural approaches help us understand human variation, with specific attention paid to skin color and the idea of race; Students will learn how scientific racism in anthropology contributed to our ideas of race, and how that can be seen in contemporary US society.