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Proposal ID: 3426
Reports Type: New Course
Submission Date: February 14, 2008 6:56pm
Proposal Effective Term: Fall 2008
Information
Justification: As a new hire, I am submitting two new classes that will allow me to teach within
my areas of expertise Human Nutritional Evolution and Human Reproduction.
Login One of these, Anthropology 444/544: Nutritional Anthropology will examine
human nutrition and food systems from comparative, biocultural and evolutionary
perspectives. This approach will allow us to examine the interface of: 1)
biological/evolutionary; 2) sociocultural; and 3) political-economic factors that
have combined to influence human dietary patterns over time and space. Three
central areas of research in the anthropology of food and nutrition will be
addressed. First, long-term evolutionary processes will be examined within an
ecological framework as significant factors affecting human biology and
susceptibility to diet-related disease. Second, global relations of power and
inequity are examined as key factors influencing access to food and patterns of
over- and under-nutrition for both populations and individuals. Third, an
emphasis on anthropological methods in nutritional assessment including
anthropometry, paleodiet assessment, dietary recall and nutritional participant
observation will provide students with the tools to evaluate human diet from
skeletal and fossil collections through contemporary cross-cultural populations.
In combination with Anthropology 486: The Anthropology of Food, a primarily
cultural anthropology class, our students will be exposed to both the
biological/evolutionary and sociocultural components of food and diet studies in
anthropology. The course will count for four credits toward the degree and
include both laboratory time (that will expose students to anthropometrics and
dietary analysis software, for example) and lecture. Anthropology 444/544 may
be of interest to students majoring in public health, premedicine and/or nutrition,
as well as anthropology.

Comments: I have clarified assessment for the Empty Bowls Project and changed the
syllabus to reflect that grades for the reading group are based on participation
only. I'm not sure how to rearrange the grad credits to make more of the grade
come from grad only assignments without adding new assignments. Can I just
hold all of the grad students to a higher standard of critical thinking and
interpretation on the existing assignments without rearranging the point scale or
adding other assignments? The class already has a high work load. I tried to
modify the learning objectives to reflect that. Is that sufficient?

Originators
NAME TITLE DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL
Melissa Cheyney Assistant Professor Anthropology Department

Contacts
NAME TITLE DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL
David Mc Murray

Liaisons

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Course Information
Designator/Course #: ANTH 444
CIP Code: 450201
Title: NUTRITIONAL ANTHROPOLOGY

College/Department or College of Liberal Arts / Anthropology

College/School:

Credits: 4
Max Credits to 4
Graduation:
Grading Mode: A-F (includes I, W, R, S/U)
Courses Taught
Schedule:

Schedule Types: Lecture; Discussion; Laboratory

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Campus Locations:
Programs Requiring Medical Humanities (CERT)
this Course: Medical Humanities (CERT)
Biocultural Option
Food in Culture and Social Justice (CERT)
Food in Culture and Social Justice (CERT)
Biocultural Option
Biocultural Option
Biocultural Option
General Anthropology
Food in Culture and Social Justice (CERT)

Description: No description

Course Relationships
DESIGNATOR TITLE MINIMUM GRADE/SCORE
ENFORCED PREREQUISITES
None
PREREQUISITE LOGIC
Anthropology 110 and 240 or 330 are prerequisites for this course.
COREQUISITES
None
EQUIVALENT COURSES
None
SLASH COURSES
None
CROSSLISTED COURSES
None

Documents
FILE NAME FILE SIZE COMMENT DATE ADDED
444a.doc Dec 07, 2009 8:18 pm
444b.doc Dec 07, 2009 8:18 pm
444c.doc Dec 07, 2009 8:18 pm
444d.doc Dec 07, 2009 8:18 pm
444e.doc Dec 07, 2009 8:18 pm
Nutrition5:21.doc Dec 07, 2009 8:18 pm
Nutrition2-8.doc Dec 07, 2009 8:18 pm
444syl6-9.doc Dec 07, 2009 8:18 pm

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