Instructor Contact Information

 

Introduction to Physical Anthropology - Fully ONLINE

 

Samantha Hurst, Ph.D.

Adjunct Professor, Anthropology

San Diego Mesa College

E-mail shurst@sdccd.edu  

 

+ Use WebCT e-mail after semester begins.

 

The instructor will NOT be issuing Add Codes for this course.

 

 

Textbook and Course Material Requirements

 

Our Origins:  Discovering Physical Anthropology

 

Clark Spencer Larson

ISBN 10: 0393977370


Purchase Textbooks Online at the SDCCD Online Bookstore

 

Hardware and Software Requirements

 

Hardware and Software:
To successfully complete this online course, you will be required to meet the minimum hardware and software requirements. View Hardware and Software Requirements.

Internet Browser:
You must use a supported Internet browser in order to successfully work in WebCT, the online course management system for this course. To see a list of supported Internet browsers, click here.

 

Course Description

 

This course is an introduction to the study of biological anthropology. The course will cover: the evolutionary biology of humankind based on information from the fossil record and the human skeleton; the genetics of both individuals and populations; our primate relatives; human adaptation and human variation; among our topics. SDCCD Online course is only offered through the internet.

Students must be disciplined, well-organize with regard to deadlines, computer literate, and motivated. If you are taking the 4-week intersession course you will be expected to spend a minimum of six to eight (6-8) hours on the internet each week completing your assignments; if you are taking the 16-week semester class you will be expected to spend a minimum of three (3) hours on the internet each week completing your assignments. This course is not self-paced.

 

General Course Objectives

 

Understand the subfield of biological anthropology in the larger context of the social and life sciences, including a brief history of the discipline of anthropology as a whole.

 

Examine the roots of evolutionary thinking and how it became a central tenet of biological anthropology.

 

Describe the applications of modern genetic research (molecular, Mendelian, population) in unraveling some of the mysteries of human evolution.

 

Survey the field of human adaptation and variation and the ways in which evolutionary forces mold human populations.

 

Learn about living nonhuman primates by their classification, anatomical and behavioral adaptations and social life.

 

Develop an understanding of the human fossil record, as well as the environmental context in which fossils are found and describe the periods of Earth's history during which both nonhuman and human primates arose.

 

Identify the genus Homo and the causes and consequences of dispersal from Africa into the sequence of hominids leading to anatomically modern humans... Homo sapien sapiens.

 

Application and Registration Information

 

REGISTRATION DIRECTIONS:

  1. Complete Online Application (for new SDCCD students). Go to Student Web Services
  2. Receive registration appointment and instructions by email or mail.
  3. Register online at the Reg-e, our online registration system
  4. Make sure that you pay your tuition so that you don't lose your registration!
    Tuition and Fees Information.
  5. Order textbooks online. Visit our online bookstore.

6.  After completion of registration on Reg-e, and several days prior to the start of the semester, you will receive an email with course login instructions. If you don't receive an email please go to http://www.sdccdonline.net and login on the first day of class as follows:
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Type your WebCT ID = 7-digit College Student Identification (CSID) number
Type your Password =  mmddyyyy (birthdate with no hyphens, slashes, or spaces)
For example:  1010101 (CSID number used at registration)
                          06231980 (password for birthdate June 23, 1980) 

  1.  If this course is closed, please login to Reg-e to be placed on a waitlist. If the waitlist is full, you will not be able to add your name to the waitlist.

You will not be able to login to your online course until the first day of the semester!!!
You must login to your online course on the first day of the session to avoid your enrollment being dropped. Follow the login instructions at http://www.sdccdonline.net/login