A retired anthropologist friend from a state university told me that except for the U of Illinois, the top-ranked university programs are abandoning the intro...
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Karen Muir
kmuir@...
Dec 1, 2010 4:48 pm
When you say the "intro course" do you mean a general anthropology course? or an intro to cultural? or ??? Karen ... A retired anthropologist friend from a...
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Katrina Worley
katworley
Dec 1, 2010 4:52 pm
To my knowledge, we've never taught a 3/4 field "Intro to Anthropology" course, and I don't think it's ever been a part of the curriculum at most CCs in...
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Karen Muir
kmuir@...
Dec 1, 2010 5:20 pm
We also have never had a multiple field intro. We offer Intro to Cultural, Prehistory, Intro to Biological, and Forensic Anthropology. All of these transfer...
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Philip Stein
phil3900
Dec 1, 2010 5:29 pm
I agree. We have always offered distinct courses in each of the 4 fields and enrollment remains strong. A general intro courses has never been a part of our...
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Lloyd Miller
lloyd.miller@...
Dec 1, 2010 5:53 pm
Yes, Karen, I meant a four/five-field introductory/general anthropology course. Lloyd ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Johnson, Ellen C. K.
Johnson@...
Dec 1, 2010 6:15 pm
John Staeck has been trying to introduce College of DuPage students to Anthro. in general, with some on each subfield (new course in the last 3-4 years), but...
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Deborah Shepherd
deborah_j_sh...
Dec 1, 2010 6:22 pm
At my campus, we've offered Intro to Physical and Intro to Cultural for years, and more recently I started up Principles of Archaeology and Environmental...
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Sydney Hart
sydneyhart1
Dec 1, 2010 6:35 pm
At the City Colleges of Chicago, we have an Intro. course that's a 4-fields course, Cultural Anthropology, Physical Anthropology, and Archaeology as 3 separate...
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Bob Muckle
canadianarch...
Dec 1, 2010 6:46 pm
The big universities in my part of the world either never had the general intro, or gave it up decades ago. My place abandoned the general intro course about...
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Gilliland, Mary
sunny_hvar
Dec 1, 2010 6:47 pm
I'll weigh in on behalf of Pima Community College, in Tucson. Some years ago we created two intro-level courses for non-majors that combine 2 sub-fields each....
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Patricia Hamlen
phamlen@...
Dec 1, 2010 7:08 pm
Here at Harper we offer Introduction to Anthropology and it is one of our most popular courses, of course we are also offer Cultural Anthropology and...
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Bob Muckle
canadianarch...
Dec 1, 2010 7:09 pm
Anybody see this? Apparently the AAA wants to disassociate itself with science or something like that. I read about it on a 'Psychology Today' blog. You can...
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Gilliland, Mary
sunny_hvar
Dec 1, 2010 7:20 pm
Very interesting! Maybe this is why it is so difficult to get a Physical Anthropologist for the 5-field panel. Many told me they no longer join the AAA. Mary...
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Deborah Shepherd
deborah_j_sh...
Dec 1, 2010 7:29 pm
I just read this (it was the latest entry on the matter). http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/fetishes-i-dont-get/201012/the-remains-the-aaa Bizarre. From:...
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Patricia Hamlen
phamlen@...
Dec 1, 2010 8:31 pm
I think this article could be making my point. From: SACC-L@yahoogroups.com [mailto:SACC-L@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Deborah Shepherd Sent: Wednesday,...
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Anthropmor
anthropmor@...
Dec 1, 2010 9:19 pm
I am teaching the general anthro course right now in a community college. I am desperately trying to get Intro to Arch & Intro to Physical Anth added to our...
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Ann Bragdon
annbrag...
Dec 1, 2010 9:21 pm
Our Physical Anthropology courses are mushrooming across our 5- college system.. students are attracted because it fulfills a natural science requirement in...
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Anthropmor
anthropmor@...
Dec 1, 2010 9:23 pm
Yea gads! Mike Pavlik ... From: Gilliland, Mary <mkgilliland@...> To: SACC-L <SACC-L@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wed, Dec 1, 2010 1:20 pm Subject: RE: [SACC-L]...
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Greg Smith
Greg.Smith@...
Dec 1, 2010 9:35 pm
As far as I know, there are no General Anthro courses in Wyoming's eight (eight!) community colleges. Intro to Cultural is the bread and butter at my school...
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tadmci
Dec 1, 2010 10:10 pm
There is a really useful roundup of all of the news and blogs discussing this issue from Neuroanthropology. The link is below. Tad ...
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Katrina Worley
katworley
Dec 1, 2010 11:30 pm
We teach (by abut a 3:1 margin) more physical anthro classes than cultural, for that very reason. Be prepared though... I've noticed that a lot of those...
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Lori Barkley
lbarkley9
Dec 1, 2010 11:36 pm
I have a 4-field intro course, as well as separate intro to bio anth & intro to cultural anth courses. I inherited the 4-field course, bio anth was introduced...
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Anthropmor
anthropmor@...
Dec 2, 2010 2:52 am
Yeah, I used to teachthat class & I had to argue for evolution every semester. BTW- I went to U of I , and we did not have general anth for undergrads, either....
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mep1mep
pmaack
Dec 2, 2010 5:08 am
We (I guess I mean I) just added General Anthropology a couple of years ago and I just, yesterday, heard that the Intro to Physical passed our curriculum ...
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Kent Morris
kenthm52
Dec 2, 2010 6:01 am
Long Beach City College in So. Cal. has never had a general anthro course--don't know if that's good or bad... ... From: "Lloyd Miller"...
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Lloyd Miller
lloyd.miller@...
Dec 2, 2010 6:29 am
Here's an additional reference on this issue, a lengthy article but it summarizes and excerpts comments from a number of other blogs. I'm amazed at how many...
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Lloyd Miller
lloyd.miller@...
Dec 2, 2010 7:28 am
Thank you all for your quick responses to my inquiry. It seems that community college anthropology offerings follow closely the curricula of their state...
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Deborah Shepherd
deborah_j_sh...
Dec 2, 2010 7:26 pm
This is exactly the problem I have--students thinking my course is an easy way to avoid taking a "hard" biology course yet still meet AA degree requirements,...
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Katrina Worley
katworley
Dec 2, 2010 8:05 pm
I've noticed the same thing. The last couple of semesters when I've given the "you signed up for this course having read the description, right?" part of the...
