ANTH 101 Section 001
Primates, People, and Prehistory
MWF 12:20-1:10 153 Gambrell
Instructor: Dr. Gail E. Wagner Teaching Assistant: Joe Samolis
Office Hours: T Th 2:00-3:00 MWF 11:00-12:00, or by appointment
or easily by email appointment 102 Hamilton
300 Hamilton (corner Pickens & Pendleton) 777-3159; jamolis@aol.com
777-6548; gail.wagner@sc.edu
COURSE GOALS: To introduce you to the field of anthropology, especially human biological and cultural evolution. To encourage you to think scientifically about what makes us human.
COURSE OUTLINE: The course is divided into three sections: Introduction, Hominid Evolution, and The Cultural Record.
READINGS: Required text: Physical Anthropology & Archaeology, 1st edition, by Conrad Phillip Kottak, 2004, McGraw-Hill. Additional readings on the web will be assigned. You are expected to read the assigned readings BEFORE class discussion for that day, and may expect in-class quizzes on the readings.
CLICKERS: You are required to buy a clicker for this course and bring it with you to each class period. Clickers will be used to take daily attendance and for in-class surveys, quizzes, and games.
VIDEO: Question sheets on each video will be posted on the Blackboard page. These are to be printed and brought to class on the day of the video, filled out during the film, and handed in at the close of class that day.
ATTENDANCE: Attendance is REQUIRED. Students are expected to attend all classes and all tests. Missed days will be deducted from your final score for the course.
QUIZZES AND TESTS: Quizzes will be given at each video on the content of the video. We will have announced and unannounced quizzes to help you study for the tests. Two tests are scheduled, as well as a final comprehensive examination. Make-up tests are rarely allowed and will be more difficult than the scheduled test. Absence from tests or quizzes will be excuses (and tests allowed to be made up) ONLY if you have a written statement from your doctor or a parent. NOTIFY the professor via email of the reason for your absence AT THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE MOMENT. Worksheet exercises are assigned and completed on the Blackboard site. Worksheets go off line after the due date and may not be available for make-up, so complete your assignments by the date/time assigned.
GRADING: Grades will be based as follows out of a possible score of 300 points. Tests may include multiple choice, matching, true/false, fill-in-the-blank, short answer, and essay. All test scores, worksheet scores, and video questions will be counted. The lowest quiz score will be dropped. No extra credit will be offered, so work at completing the assignments in a timely manner to make the best possible grade.
Points Percent Points Percent
Video questions 20 7% Test 1 50 17%
Worksheets 75 25% Test 2 50 17%
Quizzes 30 10% Final Exam 75 25%
Points Grade Percent
273-300 A 91-100
240-272 B 80-90
195-239 C 65-79
150-194 D 50-64
PROJECTED COURSE OUTLINE
Part I: Introduction
JAN 10 What Makes Us Human?
12 What is Anthropology?
Read: Chapter 1
14 Ethics and Anthropology
Read: Ethics, pp. 35-37 and Chapter 3, pp. 57-70
17 NO CLASS: MLK Day
19 Data Recovery
Read: Chapter 3, pp. 70-73
DUE: Post homepage and email address on Blackboard
21 Dating the Past
Read: Chapter 3, pp. 73-80
DUE: Worksheet 1 (Dating Techniques)
24 Evolution and Genetics
Read: Chapter 4, pp. 83-87
QUIZ: Anthropology through Dating
26 Genetics
Read: Chapter 4, pp. 88-96
DUE: Worksheet 2 (Genetics)
28 Genetics, cont.
31 Adaptation
Read: Chapter 4, pp. 96-107
QUIZ: Genetics and Evolution
FEB 2 Introduction to Primates
Read: Ch. 5, pp. 109-116
4 Anthropoids
Read: Ch. 5, pp. 116-120
7 Apes
Read: Ch. 5, pp. 120-128
DUE: Worksheet 3 (Primates)
9 Primate Behavior
Read: Ch. 5, pp. 129-137
Among the Wild Chimpanzees (55 min)
11 Primate Behavior
DUE: Worksheet 4 (Zoo Observation)
14 Human Diversity and Race
Read: Ch. 9
16 Review of Part I
18 TEST ON PART I
(Chapters 1, 3-5, 9)
PART II: Hominid Evolution
21 CSI: The Human Skeleton
23 Evolution Overview and Early Primates
Read: Ch. 6, pp. 143-149
25 Early Primates
Read: Ch. 6, pp. 150-162
DUE: Worksheet 5: Primate Evolution
28 [Midpoint] Hominids
Read: Ch. 7, pp. 165-181
QUIZ: Skeleton through Early Primates
MAR 2 Bipedalism
Lucy in Disguise (30 min)
4 Australopithecines
Read: Ch. 7, pp. 181-190
DUE: Worksheet 6 (Australopithecines)
7-11 NO CLASS, Spring Break
14 Early Homo
Read: Ch. 8, pp. 193-198
QUIZ: Australopithecines and Bipedalism
16 Homo erectus
Read: Ch. 8, pp. 199-204
A Human Way of Life (52 min)
18 Archaic Homo sapiens
Read: Ch. 8, pp. 204-209, 218-225
21 Evolutionary Theory
Read: Ch. 8, pp. 196-198, 210
DUE: Worksheet 7 (Evolutionary Models)
23 Review of Part II, Hominid Evolution
25 TEST ON PART II: HOMINID EVOLUTION
(Chapters 6-8)
PART III: The Cultural Record
28 Paleolithic
Read: Ch. 8, pp. 210-214, 217
30 Cave Art and Venus Figurines
Read: Ch. 8, pp. 214-216
DUE: Worksheet 8 (Paleolithic)
APR 1 Mesolithic Old World and Archaic New World
Read: Ch. 8, pp. 216-225
4 Making Tools
Flintknapping (45 min)
6 Domestication
Read: Ch. 10, p. 261
QUIZ: Paleolithic through Mesolithic
8 Early Food Production
Read: Ch. 10
DUE: Worksheet 9 (Domestication)
11 Early Food Production, cont.
13 Social Systems
Read: Ch. 11, pp. 286-289
QUIZ: Domestication through Food Production
15 Complex Societies
Read: Ch. 11, pp. 281-284, 299-305
18 Complex Societies, cont.
Cahokia Mounds – Ancient Metropolis (60 min)
20 States
Read: Ch. 11, pp. 284-286, 290-299, 306-309
DUE: Worksheet 10 (Complex Societies)
22 Indus Valley: Harappan Civilization
25 Review for Final Examination
FINAL COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION
Saturday, 30 April 2005
2:00-4:00 pm