ANTH105-19S2 (C) Semester Two 2019

Human Evolution

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 15 July 2019
End Date: Sunday, 10 November 2019
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 26 July 2019
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 27 September 2019

Description

This course is an introduction to the biological, behavioural, and cultural evolution of hominids from the earliest evidence to the emergence of the Neolithic revolution.

Where have we come from? How have we become what we are today? Throughout history, these questions have been asked by people from many different cultures. Many different answers have been given in the form of mythological and legendary stories of the origin of the world and human beings. Human curiosity about our own origin has continued to modern days. The advance of modern science and technology has enabled scientists to provide better and better answers to these questions. Since the 19th century, many ancient fossil remains have been discovered and examined by paleoanthropologists. Our close relatives, modern primates, have also become subjects of research by biological anthropologists. In the past twenty years, breakthroughs in genetic studies have opened new windows into the human past.  As a result of the hard work of scholars in these fields, much progress has been made in understanding our remote past and the trajectories through which we have become what we are today. In this course, you are going to be introduced to the up-to-date knowledge about how we have become what we are today, both biologically and culturally, as well as how such knowledge has been produced in academic research.

Learning Outcomes

After taking this course, students will be able to:
a. Understand the basic principles and practices in paleoanthropology, physical anthropology    and archaeology
b. Be familiar with the up-to-date knowledge of human evolution
c. Understand the assumptions, evidence, methods, arguments and theories involved in   researches on human evolution
d. To develop cultural and bi-cultural competent based on understandings of the human past.

University Graduate Attributes

This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

Course Coordinator

Zhifang Song

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Mid-term test 25% Second lecture of week 6
Tutorial participation and note taking 10% Participation in discussions (7.5%) Notes preparation (7.5%)
Essay 25% 1500 wordds
Take Home Test 40%

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $761.00

International fee $3,188.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

Minimum enrolments

This course will not be offered if fewer than 20 people apply to enrol.

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .

All ANTH105 Occurrences

  • ANTH105-19S2 (C) Semester Two 2019