Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 13, 2024

MerrillSinger, PhD, University of Connecticut The COVID-19 pandemic brought enhanced global attention to the anthropological concept of syndemics. As medical anthropologist Lance Gravlee observed, syndemics has achieved a broader reach than most anthropological ideas. It is a syndemic. Why teach syndemics?

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Teaching Anthropology

APRIL 13, 2024

Initially the VMP was run through the course learning management system to release a unique anthropological case scenario to each PBL group, comprised of three weekly clues culminating in a larger VM report at the end of the term. The VMP content spans the subfields of biological anthropology (evolutionary, primatology), and archaeology.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2020

In this guest post, Cori Schwarzrock shares her experience using blended learning models in her AP psychology course. I teach AP Psychology, blended and traditional, at a high school in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. You can find a great list of web tools on Catlin’s blog. My answer is a resounding “Yes!”

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Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In a 1934 lecture on techniques of the body, for example, Marcel Mauss argued that studies of movement should attend concomitantly to biological, sociological and psychological facets. Anthropologists and others have long been drawn to the pragmatics and theoretics of hygiene.

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Anthropology 365

MARCH 31, 2025

After graduating high school, I began university in 2003, majoring in biology and psychology. I had taken a couple of courses in anthropology and was excited by the fact that doing anthropology allowed me to engage in all of my interests: biology, conservation, ecology, and how humans fit in the world.

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Teaching Anthropology

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

ELIZABETH KEATING, Professor of Anthropology & Graduate Faculty, Human Dimensions of Organizations, The University of Texas at Austin Teaching through research is recognized as one of the strengths of anthropology. The interview assignment encouraged them to see anthropology in conversation with their own families.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2020

In contrast, prior psychological research on learning was often conducted in a lab with artificial tasks and then applied to more realistic educational activities and settings. Sciences of learning recognizes that many sciences inform our understanding of how people learn, such as neuroscience, psychology, sociology, anthropology, and more.

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