ANT 101H5
Summer 2007
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/20075/ant101h5s/
Lecture:
Tuesday & Thursday, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm,
Room 160 North Building
Tutorials:
Thursday 1-3 or 3-5, Room
160 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: Agnes
Gozdzik
Email:
agnes.gozdzik 'at' utoronto.ca
Office: tba
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.
Required
Course Materials (Available at UTM
Bookstore)
Feder,
Kenneth L. and
Michael A. Park.
2007. Human Antiquity. An
Introduction to Physical
Anthropology and Archaeology.
Fifth Edition. New York,
NY: McGraw-Hill. ISBN-10:
0-07-304196-3 OR ISBN-13:
978-0-07-304196-3; paperback.
MAKE SURE YOU
HAVE THE FIFTH EDITION! Earlier
editions will have different information.
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 attendance. Unless you
become ill, do not begin packing up books or stand to leave before the
end of
class or tutorial; this is distracting to all. If
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 'Hi' or leave the
Subject
blank, or your email may be rejected as junk mail by the U of T server). You should ALWAYS use your UTOR
email address -
the U of T server regularly rejects hotmail and other accounts as
potential spam.
Evaluation
& Requirements
To do
well in this course, 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.
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 the section 'Term Tests' under 'General
Regulations'
in the UTM Calendar for 2006-2007.
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 and essay
format only, not multiple choice.
* For
the Final Exam, see the section 'Examinations' under 'General
Regulations'
in the UTM Calendar for 2006-2007.
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 and essay format only, not multiple choice.
The two
exercises will be due IN CLASS on the dates specified on the schedule
below,
and will be worth 12.5% each, for a total of 25%. You
may use lecture and tutorial notes and the text for
these exercises, but no discussion with or 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. Exercises
may NOT be submitted by email.
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
the section "Academic Honesty" under "General Regulations",
and the section "Discipline Codes: The Code of Behaviour on Academic
Matters" under "Codes and Policies" in the UTM Calendar for
2006-2007. It is your
responsibility to be familiar with this code, and adhere to it. Also read the information on plagiarism
on the web site, http://www.utoronto.ca/writing/plagsep.html.
****LATE
EXERCISES: Late assignments will lose 20 points per calendar day late,
including weekends. 10 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. Turning in the
final essay one day late will result in a loss of 20 points. If the final essay is 3 days late, the
loss would be 50 points, the total value of the assignment. (You cannot lose more points than the
assignment is worth.)
It is your
responsibility to turn in late assignments to the instructor IN PERSON
in her
office, at her convenience.
DO NOT submit your assignment to anyone else.
DO NOT submit the assignment by email, nor slide your
assignment under the instructor's office door. The
assignment has not been submitted until you sign the
submission form. You should also
always keep a copy of your assignments.
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 - copying each
other
constitutes the academic offense of unauthorized aid or plagiarism.
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.
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, and responding in a thoughtful and
polite way
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
TA's convenience the following week; however, make-ups may not be
possible
for some labs. You must turn in
your make-up lab summary as soon as possible, 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 3 |
Introduction to Course; History
of Evolutionary Theory |
Skim Ch.1 & 2 after class |
|
|
Th July 5 |
Cell Biology and Genetic Principles Modern
Evolutionary Theory NOTE: Plan
on reading Ch. 4 twice if you don't have biology background! |
BEFORE Class read: Ch. 2: History; Ch. 3: Overview; Ch.4:
Genetics |
|
|
Tutorial Th July 5 |
Introduction to Tutorials & Labs Discussion/Questions
about Lectures Lab 1: Evolutionary Relationships
& Skeletal Anatomy |
Handout A on CCNet (Human Skeleton) |
|
2 |
T July 10 |
Anthropology;
Scientific Method & Other Anthropological Approaches;
Taxonomy; The
Primates |
Ch. 1: Framework (read carefully); Ch. 2: History
(review); Ch. 5: Primates (begin - through p. 132) |
|
|
Th July 12 |
Evolutionary History of the Primates; Primate Behavioural Models for Human Evolution; Film:
Life in the Trees
(26 min); Life
on Earth series,BBC Exercise
1 handed out - email Dr. Miller if miss class |
Ch. 5: Primates (rest of chapter); Ch.
6: Behavioral Models |
|
|
Tutorial Th July 12 |
Lab
1 summary due Discuss Lectures and Readings Lab 2: Primate/Hominoid Skeletal
Anatomy |
Handouts on CCNet |
|
3 |
T July 17 |
Exercise 1 Due Material Approaches to the Past; Film - Those Who Came Before - 1st half (30 min) |
Ch. 7: The Material Record of the Past |
|
|
Th July 19 |
Hominid Origins / Bipedal Primates |
Ch. 8: Emerging Human Lineage |
|
|
Tutorial Th July 19 |
Lab
2 summary due Discuss Lectures, Film, and Readings Review for Midterm |
Review for Midterm |
|
4 |
T July 24 |
Midterm Test |
Review All Readings & Notes |
|
|
Th July 26 |
Early Homo in Africa; Homo erectus & Contemporaries: Africa & Beyond;
Archaic ('Premodern') Homo sapiens (including Neanderthals) |
Ch 9: Human Lineage Evolves |
|
|
Tutorial Th July 26 |
Lecture on Fieldwork; Discuss Lecture
and Readings Lab 3: Archaeological Analysis |
Any Handouts on CCNet |
|
5 |
T July 31 |
Neanderthal Culture Homo sapiens sapiens |
Ch 9 con't; Ch 10:
Evolution of Modern Humans |
|
|
Th Aug 2 |
Human Biological and Culture Variation;
The Question of Race;
Film: Skin Deep: The
Science of Race (CBC: The Nature of Things) Exercise
2 handed out - email Dr. Miller if miss class |
Ch. 10: Biological Diversity (pp. 341-352); Readings on
CCNet |
|
|
Tutorial Th Aug 2 |
Lab 3 summary due Discuss Lectures, Film, and Readings Lab 4: Biological Anthropology: Vitamin D & Skin Colour
Variation |
Readings/Handouts on CCNet |
|
6 |
T Aug 7 |
Life in the Upper Palaeolithic; Food Production |
Ch. 11: Upper Palaeolithic; Ch. 12: Origins of Agriculture |
|
|
Th Aug 9 |
Exercise 2 Due Defining & Explaining Civilization; Early
Civilizations |
Ch. 13: Civilizations |
|
|
Tuturial Th Aug 9 |
Lab 4 summary due Discuss Lectures and Readings;
Review for Final |
Review for Final |
|
Exam |
TBA |
FINAL EXAM (week of August 13-17) |
Review All Readings and Notes |