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AI for Learning: Experiments from Three Anthropology Classrooms

Anthropology News

AI is shaping our everyday lives, but as anthropology teaching faculty, most of our recent AI-related conversations have had a singular focus: how to deal with generative AI tools like ChatGPT in the classroom. Below, we present case studies from three anthropology courses using three different sets of AI tools.

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The Timing Is Right for Anthro-Journo

Anthropology News

Courses in history, psychology, sociology, and political science are often part of the core curricula in journalism programs,” writes Paula Horvath in Journalism & Mass Communication Educator. Merging anthropology and journalism was attempted through the ‘70s into the aughts. Grindall and Robin Rhodes. What happened?

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Enrollment and financial crises threaten growing list of academic disciplines

The Hechinger Report

These have included anthropology, philosophy, languages, art, theater, music and women’s and African American studies. Will history repeat? Any time they see an opportunity to attack particularly the humanities and the social sciences, that’s what they’ll go after.”. I don’t think so.”.

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Cultural Dimensions of health - Introduction

Anthropology for Beginners

A specialised branch of anthropology, i.e, medical anthropology has engage in both basic research into health and healing systems and applied research aimed at the improvement of therapeutic care in clinical settings or community public health programs in prevention and disease control. A specialised branch of anthropology, i.e,

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Want More Innovation? Try Connecting the Dots Between Engineering and Humanities

Digital Promise

These founders, hailing from leading universities as well as the US Atomic Energy Commission, IBM Corp and New York Life Insurance, knew that connecting the humanities and sciences helps us make informed judgments about our control of nature, ourselves and our destiny. It is not a “history course for engineers.”

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Leonard B. Glick

Anthropology News

In 1957 Len left medicine for a field that interested him far more, beginning the study of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and getting his PhD in 1963. In 1972 he left to join the faculty of the two-year-old Hampshire College as full professor and dean of social sciences.

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Why I Study Human-Animal Relations as an Anthropologist

Anthropology 365

Anthropology is the study of humans, or as Dr. Jon Marks says: “the study of who we are and where we come from.” It also includes our relationships to our past (archaeology), our biology, our evolutionary history, and other beings (e.g., animals, plants, fungi, microbes, and the supernatural).