ANTH2031 — Sex, Love and Evolution: An Anthropological Perspective
ANTH 2031 - Sex, Love and Evolution: An Anthropological Perspective ANTH 2031 - Sex, Love and Evolution: An Anthropological Perspective Hours/Week: Lecture 3 Course Description: This course explores the natural history of human sex and love through an anthropological lens. Topics include the biological origins of sex, sex differences, attraction, mate choice, mating systems, parenting, and conflict. After comparing patterns across species, the course shifts to a focus on humans to understand how sex, love, reproduction, division of labor, and cooperative parenting evolved from the Paleolithic to the culturally diverse modern era. Through evolutionary and then cross-cultural perspectives, the course reveals insight into our species’ origins and design and sheds light on aspects of our bodies and our psychological and social lives. MnTC Goals 5 History/Social/Behavioral Science, 8 Global Perspective Introduction to anthropology 2. Anthropological methods and theories 3. The evolution of sexual reproduction 4. Survey of animal mating systems and the patterns associated 5. Human evolution and ecology 6. Human sex, marriage, and parenting through deep time 7. Cross-cultural patterns of mate choice, marriage, and parenting 8. Sexual labor division thorugh deep time. 9. Social science writing instruction Learning
Prerequisites: ENGL0950, RDNG0940, RDNG0950, ENGL0090, ESOL0051, ESOL0052