ANTH 5595 - Hunting & Gathering Societies

• Students will be able to analyze the relationships between human behavior and the environment across various global contexts.
• Students will be able to apply anthropological theories to hunter-gatherer societies and critically discuss their relevance to contemporary issues, including diet, health, violence, and social structure.
• Students will be able to critically discuss human diversity and adaptation in relation to hunter-gatherer societies by synthesizing information from multiple subfields of anthropology (archaeology, cultural anthropology, and physical anthropology).
• Students will be able to discuss and evaluate the origins of agriculture and complex societies in relation to the lifeways of hunter-gatherers.
• Students will be able to effectively communicate ideas in both written and oral formats in relation to hunting and gathering societies.
• Students will be able to critically analyze, critique, and compare humanistic and scientific approaches to the study of hunting and gathering societies.
• Students will be able to identify and critically discuss their own cultural rules and biases in relation to hunter-gatherer societies.
• Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the complexity of elements important to hunter-gatherer cultures, including history, foraging choices, sharing, division of labor, social inequity, communication, & other practices.
• Students will be able to identify and analyze cultural differences in verbal and non-verbal communication of hunter-gatherer societies and negotiate a shared understanding based on those differences.
• Students will be able to interpret intercultural experiences within hunter-gatherer societies and respond empathetically towards other cultural groups, suspending judgment and valuing diverse perspectives.
• Students will be able to synthesize anthropological theories and research methods to comparatively analyze hunter-gatherer societies and critically discuss the complexity of human-environment interactions.