It examines the interaction of race, ethnicity, and class historically and comparatively and considers the problem of citizenship in relation to the growing polarization of multiple social identities. Interrelationships of aspects of individual personality and various aspects of sociocultural systems are considered. Relations of sociocultural contexts to motives, values, cognition, personal adjustment, stress and pathology, and qualities of personal experience are emphasized. Physical and behavioral differences between human males and females examined. Diverse human cultures' readings explore extent to which sex differences are universal or caused by socialization.
Course also considers role of evolution in the origin and maintenance of male-female differences.
Interdisciplinary discussion of the human predicament, biodiversity crisis, and importance of biological conservation. Examine issues from biological, cultural, historical, economic, social, political and ethical perspectives emphasizing new approaches and new techniques for safeguarding the future of humans and other biosphere inhabitants. This course examines each stage of the human life cycle, including morphological changes that occur, and the evolutionary value of those changes. Ethnographic evidence and nonhuman primate data are used to provide a broad perspective on human biological development. Introduction to the organization of the brain of humans and apes.