ANT 101H5
Summer 2006
INTRODUCTION
to BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY and ARCHAEOLOGY
Web Site with link
to online version of this
syllabus: http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/~w3hmlmil
Course
CCNet page:
http://ccnet.utoronto.ca/20065/ant101h5s/
Lecture:
Tuesday & Thursday, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm,
Room 205 North Building
Tutorials:
Thursday 1-3 or 3-5, Room
172 North Building
Instructor: Dr. Heather
M.-L. Miller
Anthropology,
University of
Toronto at Mississauga
Email: hmiller "at" utm.utoronto.ca
Office: Room 208 North
Building Phone:
905-828-3741
Office
Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 2:30-3:30
Teaching Assistant: Jeff
Bursey
Email:
jbursey "at" utm.utoronto.ca
Office: Room 220 North Building
Office Hours: by appointment
Course
Description
Anthropology,
the holistic study of human behaviour and biology, is composed of four
sub-fields: biological or
physical anthropology, archaeology, sociocultural anthropology, and
linguistic
anthropology. ANT 101H, covering
the first two sub-fields, provides an introductory overview of the
study of
human biology and the study of the human past. We
will examine the methods by which anthropologists study
human biology and the past, and what anthropologists have learned using
these
methods. The main topics are the
processes by which the human species came to exist, the stages of human
development, their current and past biological diversity, and the
diversity of
cultural systems developed by past societies.
As we
will be covering an enormous amount of information, students must
attend all
lectures and tutorials, and complete all of the readings.
Lectures, tutorials, and readings will
provide overlapping material, but students are responsible for all
material
covered in any one of these formats.
Tutorials will be used to introduce and complete labs, as well
as to
review and discuss lectures, readings, and exercises.
Required
Course Materials (Available at UTM
Bookstore)
Feder,
Kenneth L. and
Michael A. Park.
2001. Human Antiquity. An
Introduction to Physical Anthropology
and Archaeology. Fourth
Edition. New York, NY:
McGraw-Hill. ISBN:
0-7674-1695-3, paperback.
Expectations,
Policies, and Common Courtesy
Attendance: Students are
expected to attend all classes, including lectures and tutorials.
Punctuality: You are expected
to arrive and be settled in your seat by the beginning of class or
tutorial and
to remain until the end of class, or you will only receive partial
credit for
tutorial attendence. Unless you
become ill, do not begin packing up books or stand to leave before the
end of
class or tutorial, because this is distracting to all.
If you know you cannot stay for the
entire period, please sit near the door and leave very quietly.
Courtesy
in Class: Every
student is expected to pay close attention in the lecture or
film. Refrain from talking during
lectures and films, except to ask or respond to a question from the
instructor. Even quiet talking is
distracting and disrespectful for your fellow students and your
instructor.
Turn off pagers and mobile phones.
In tutorials, your undivided attention and courtesy is also
expected;
however, this is your opportunity to discuss what you are learning in
class
with your TA and one another. You
are encouraged to thoughtfully ask and answer questions, but please, no
confidential, whispered conversations.
Anything you say should be directed to the class as a whole.
Email
Communication: Emailing with your
professor or TA is a form of professional communication.
Please write courteously and clearly;
do not use text-messaging abbreviations or slang. Please
clearly indicate your questions or concerns. Be
sure to provide a summary of the
email topic in the Subject line (do not just write ÒHiÓ
or leave the Subject
blank, or your email may be rejected as junk mail by the UTM server). You should ALWAYS use your UTM email
address if at all possible Ð the UTM server regularly rejects
hotmail accounts
as potential spam.
Evaluation
& Requirements
The
marked work for this course will consist of a mid-term test (25% = 100
points),
a final examination (35% = 140 points), two assigned exercises (12.5%
each=50
points, for a total of 25% = 100 points), and tutorial participation
which will
be partially but not entirely based on labs in tutorial (15% = 60
points). The total marked work will be
worth 400
points, or 100%.
MID-TERM
and FINAL EXAMINATIONS
Both the
mid-term and final exams will consist of multiple choice and short
answer
questions on ALL materials presented in the class and discussed in
tutorial
(readings, lectures, AND films).
The mid-term
will be worth 100 points or 25% and the final will be worth 140 points
or 35%,
for a total of 240 points or 60% of the course grade.
The final exam will be cumulative, although material
presented after the mid-term will be more heavily covered.
***MISSED
EXAMS***
Avoid
missing an exam - the procedure for taking a make-up exam is
strictly regulated by the university, and these policies will be
followed in
all cases. Please notify the
instructor by email or phone as soon as possible if you miss an exam.
* For
the Mid-term Exam, see Section 7.9 "Term Tests" in the UTM Calendar
for
2005-2006. A valid doctor's
excuse or
similar university-approved excuse will be required to take the make-up
for the
mid-term. ONE makeup will be given
for the mid-term, the week after the regular exam.
All makeup exams will be short answer format only, not
multiple
choice.
* For
the Final Exam, see Section 7.14 "Examinations" in the UTM Calendar
for
2005-2006. You will have to submit
a petition to Registrarial Services, among other requirements, and
re-take the
exam during the Deferred Examinations Period (possibly Feb. 2007 during
Reading Week, or as
otherwise scheduled by the university). All
makeup exams will be short answer format only,
not multiple choice.
The two
exercises will be due IN CLASS on the dates specified below, and will
be worth
12.5% each, for a total of 25%.
You can use your own lecture and tutorial notes and the text for
these exercises,
but no help from other students.
You will not
have all the relevant information needed to answer these exercises
until
shortly before they are due, so be sure to keep time free in the day or
two
before the exercises are due. When you hand in your exercises in
class, you
must sign the submission form; otherwise the
exercise has not officially been submitted. All
exercises must be submitted directly to the course instructor.
PLAGERISM
on EXERCISES: You may get lecture
or tutorial notes from other students for days when your are absent,
but the
answers you submit must be your own independent work. Exercises in
which
duplication is detected will be severely penalized.
For more details, see "Academic Honesty"
and the Code of Behaviour on Academic Matters in the UTM
Calendar
for 2005-2006 under "Code of
Behaviour on
Academic Matters". It is
your responsibility to be familiar with this code, and adhere to it.
****LATE
EXERCISES: (1) Late exercises will lose 2% of the total mark for the
class (8
points) per calendar day, including weekends. 1%
(4 points) will be deducted for assignments
turned in after the first
hour of class on the date due, even if the
assignment is turned in on the due date. It
is your responsibility to
turn in late assignments to the instructor in her office, at her
convenience.
DO NOT
submit your assignment to the secretary nor to anyone else in the
Department of
Anthropology. DO NOT slide your assignment under the instructor's
office
door. The assignment has not been
officially submitted until you sign the submission form. You are
also
advised to make a copy of your assignments before submitting them.
TUTORIAL
PARTICIPATION
Participation
is worth 60 points or 15% of the course grade.
These are points you have to EARN, not points you get
automatically for showing up. Tutorial
participation will be based on a number of things:
(1) Attendance
& Questions on lecture and Reading: To
foster preparation for active discussion, your teaching
assistant will expect you to bring two neatly handwritten questions or
comments
to each tutorial, one on the lecture and one on the readings. Each student should write
his/her
own questions independently Ð copying each other constitutes the
academic
offense of unauthorized aid or plagiarism. When
studying your readings and your lecture notes, prepare
questions about any items that seemed especially puzzling to you, and
raise
these questions in tutorial. Items can be anything: a statement, the
location,
a name, the situation, a conflict, an irony, etc. "How" or
"Why" questions are especially useful, because they encourage more
thought and discussion. In tutorials, your task is not merely to ask
questions
of the teaching assistant, but also to respond to questions raised by
others in
a thoughtful way.
Your
two questions will be handed in for attendance
records. The TA will not answer
them in writing; to find the answer, you need to ask them in class. If you attend all tutorials and turn
in all questions, you will receive (at most) points equal to a C grade.
(2) Lab
Summaries: After each tutorial
in which there is a lab, you will be required to write half a page (no
more,
single-spaced, 12 point font, 1 inch margins) on the lab experience, in
which
you indicate the main goal of the lab (What were you supposed to
learn?) and
what data was used to achieve this goal (What kind of objects? What
kind of
analysis?). These lab summaries
are due in tutorial the following week, together with your questions
(put them
on one piece of paper). You will NOT receive a letter or
number grade on the
lab summaries, you will only receive a notation of "poor", "OK", and
"good".
(3) Active
Participation: To receive a high grade for participation in
tutorials you
must not only come to all classes and do a thorough job on all labs,
but also
regularly contribute to discussions by raising questions and comments
orally
and respond to points brought up by others in class.
MISSED
TUTORIALS: If you miss a
tutorial in which a lab is done, you will receive a 0 for that
lab. If you supply a doctor's
note or other appropriate material, you may make arrangements with
your TA
to make up that lab at your TAÕs convenience on the
following week --
however, make-ups may not be possible for some labs.
You will be expected to turn in your make-up lab summary as
soon as possible, but no later than one week after the make-up session. Once lab summaries have been returned,
no labs may be made up under ANY circumstances.
Class
Schedule
Week
|
Date
|
Topic
|
Reading |
1 |
T July 4 |
Introduction to Course; The
Practice of Anthropology; Scientific
Method & Other Anthropological Approaches |
|
|
Th July 6 |
The
History and Development of Evolutionary Theory |
Ch.1: Frameworks; Ch. 2: History; Ch. 3: Overview of
Evolution |
|
Tutorial Th July 6 |
Introduction to Tutorials & Labs Discussion/Questions
about Lecture Lab 1: Evolutionary Relationships
& Skeletal Anatomy |
Handouts on CCNet |
2 |
T July 11 |
Modern
Evolutionary Theory & Genetic Principles; Living
Primates |
Ch. 4: Genetics; Ch. 5: Primates |
|
Th July 13 |
Evolutionary History of the Primates; Primate Behavioural Models for Human Evolution; Film:
Life in the Trees
(26 min); Life
on Earth series,BBC |
Ch. 5: Primates (cont.); Ch. 6: Behavioral Models |
|
Tutorial Th July 13 |
Lab
1 summary due Discuss Lectures and Readings Lab 2: Primate/Hominoid Skeletal
Anatomy |
Handouts on CCNet |
3 |
T July 18 |
Exercise 1 due Material Approaches to the Past; Film: Those Who Came Before (60 min) |
Ch. 7: The Material Record of the Past |
|
Th July 20 |
Bipedal Primates; Hominid Origins; Early
Homo in Africa |
Ch. 8: Emerging Human Lineage; Ch 9: Established Human Lineage |
|
Tutorial Th July 20 |
Lab
2 summary due Discuss Lectures, Film, and Readings Review for Midterm |
Review for Midterm |
4 |
T July 25 |
Midterm Test |
Review All Readings & Notes |
|
Th July 27 |
Homo erectus & Contemporaries: Africa & Beyond; Archaic ("Premodern") Homo sapiens (including Neanderthals) |
Ch. 10: Human Lineage Evolves; Ch.
11: Origin of Our Species |
|
Tutorial Th July 27 |
Lecture on Fieldwork Discuss Lecture and Readings Lab 3: Stone Tool Analysis |
Any Handouts on CCNet |
5 |
T Aug 1 |
Neanderthal Culture Homo sapiens sapiens |
Ch. 11 (cont); Ch 12:
Evolution of Modern Humans |
|
Th Aug 3 |
Human Variation and the Question of Race; Topics in Biological Anthropology: Nutrition &
Medicine |
Ch. 12: Biological Diversity (pp. 375-386); Readings on
CCNet |
|
Tutorial Th Aug 3 |
Lab 3 summary due Discuss Lectures, Film, and Readings Lab 4: Pottery Analysis |
Any Handouts on CCNet |
6 |
T Aug 8 |
Life in the Upper Palaeolithic; Food Production |
Ch. 13: Upper Palaeolithic; Ch. 14: Origins of Agriculture |
|
Th Aug 10 |
Exercise 2 due Defining Civilization; Explaining Civilization; Early Civilizations |
Ch. 15: Civilizations |
|
Tuturial Th Aug 10 |
Lab 4 summary due Discuss Lectures and Readings Review for Final Exam |
Review for Final |
Exam |
TBA |
FINAL EXAM (week of August 14-18) |
Review All Readings and Notes |