I would like to pass along some new courses that are topics courses and easy to miss.
ANTH 399 PJ: Evolution of Childhood and Adolescence taught by Dr Petra Jelinek
MW 3:00-4:20 Gregory Hall 111 3 credits
Excellent choice for students concentrating in Biology, Human Development and Family Studies, Psychology, Pre-Med, Health Sciences, Global Studies, and Education. For those of you who have registered for the PSYC crosslist, Culture and Psychology, please consider this option instead.
Description: This course studies human growth and development from biological, cultural, and evolutionary perspectives. We will investigate the universal and cross-cultural characteristics of human development from infancy through adolescence to young adulthood, and explore some of the many reasons and outcomes of an extraordinarily long childhood. These include the evolution of human brain growth patterns, the anatomical, physiological and social context of development including learning to walk, growth of gender and sex differences, acquisition of language, and the importance of social learning. In other words, why do humans take such a long time to grow up?
There are no specific prereqs, but some basic knowledge of biology such as ANTH 101, 102, 143, 240 or other biology courses is helpful.
If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Jelinek at jelinek@illinois.edu
****Dr Jelinek will be teaching another 399 course entitled “Neuroanthropology” in spring 2016.
****Also on the schedule for spring 16, new faculty Dr Jessica Brinkworth will teach “Evolution and Ecology of Immunity.” Dr Brinkworth will teach ANTH 241: Human Variation and Race in the fall.
ANTH 499 JM: Political and Legal Anthropology (flyer attached)
TR 11:00am-12:30 pm English Building 119 4 credits
This will be a good course for advanced undergrads who wish to look at the classical foundations of law and how ethnographers have looked at the complex political significance of law in different times and places.
Description: This class is an introduction to political anthropology. It is designed to cultivate your critical engagement with current work by inviting you to read a selection of contemporary texts in combination with their precedents, stretching back through the history of the discipline into the classical foundations of political thought. Through this you will gain an understanding of political concerns driving contemporary anthropological research.
Contact Dr Martin for more info jmart@illinois.edu
ANTH 199 AU: Get to Know Anthropology
W 12:00 pm-12:50 pm 109A Davenport Hall 1 credit
For new and older students, here’s an opportunity to meet faculty and learn about different career paths and opportunities anthropology has to offer.
Contact Dr Farnell for more info bfarnell@illinois.edu