学生 in this course will attain an understanding of various primate groups and their 进化ary histories. This knowledge will enable them to critically evaluate contemporary hypotheses regarding the 进化 of primate behavior. 通过在夏延山动物园亲自收集数据, students will gain insight into the environmental factors shaping primate behavior and produce a final project based on these findings. 学生们还将讨论环境保护问题, 对灵长类动物的威胁, and the primate traits that reduce or promote survival in human-altered habitats.

What does it mean to be human in the Anthropocene – a time when we know human-caused climate change challenges lifeways and ecosystems globally? 本课程以人类学的视角来理解这个时代. 我们讨论诸如人类的过去如何影响现在这样的问题, 缓解和适应如何指导复原力, 以及公平的社会生态——自我, 社区和系统, 以及超越人类的相互依赖——需要整体战略. Different versions of the course stress 文化 or 考古 perspectives, 然而，所有这些都涉及以社区为基础的学习, 是否以在巴卡校区的实地研究为基础, 参与联合国气候谈判, 或者召开关于可持续性的对话.

How do we know what happened in the past when we don't have any written or oral records of what occurred? The answer is archaeology – the scientific study of the past through the material traces of human activity. 在这篇介绍考古学的文章中, students learn what archaeologists do and how they think through a combination of hands-on experiences in the classroom, 在CC校区, 在为期一天的实地考察中记录了一处考古遗址. 学生们了解不断变化的社会, 文化, 以及人类过去的环境维度和方法, 理论, 而考古学家们所依赖的伦理则揭示了这段过去. The course is designed to develop critical thinking skills and an understanding of the scientific method through the study of archaeology. These are essential skills students can use in any academic discipline, career, and in life.

This course will introduce students to and allow them to critically explore settler colonialism as a distinct and pervasive form of contemporary colonialism which reproduces white supremacy and social inequalities. The course critically examines anthropology’s participation in colonial discourses that have dispossessed and oppressed indigenous peoples. It further explores settler colonial discourses that manifest in popular culture forms including horror and science fiction narratives.