Capstone in Evolution and Human Environments

Course Description

This is a writing intensive capstone course designed for senior anthropology majors or other qualified students who have taken courses (or who are interested) in the theme of "Evolution and Human Environments". With an understanding of how evolutionary and ecological processes influence past socio-cultural and biological change and how they affect modern population bio-cultural diversity, students will identify a research hypothesis and then develop a proposal that could be submitted to a private or public funding agency. This will involve the identification of articles that will be used to write a literature review related to the hypothesis, and then move through the steps of writing a research proposal: explaining the methodology that will be used to test the hypothesis, the type of results that are anticipated, the strategy that will be used to analyze the results, and the ways in which results will be disseminated to the public. The result will be a complete research proposal based on a format from a specific funding agency.

Code

ANTH 4096

Credits

3

Subject

ANTH