Anthropology 5: Proseminar in Biological Anthropology (4)
[Spring Quarter 2004]
Prof. Bruce Winterhalder
Instructions for Team Research Project
| Assignment Research Objectives Grading Schedule Class List |
I. Assignment Back to top
Your assignment as a research team is the following:
(a) You are to research a specific topic covered in the required (book-length) reading that coincides with your presentation (see below). You may choose the topic, but please check with me in advance about your choice. You should consult the primary literature cited by the book’s author, as well as any other relevant, perhaps more recent, material that you can locate. Use the search services available on the library web site ("Electronic Databases," such as: Expanded Academic ASAP). Your objective is a critical review of the topic in greater depth than was given by the book’s author.(b) Based on this research, you are to prepare an oral presentation of approximately 50 minutes for the class, with an annotated bibliography of your sources. Make enough copies of the bibliography to hand out to your classmates. You may arrange your presentation however you wish, but it should cover the 2 objectives given below.
II. Research Objectives Back to top
Your team presentation should cover:
You are encouraged to develop a part of your presentation around issues, themes or interpretations of your own choosing (up to 10 minutes).a) The basic research question, perhaps citing the history of thought on the subject (no more than 5 minutes);
b) The nature and quality of the sources that you have located, and the means that you used to find them (no more than 5 minutes);
c) A summary of the observational or experimental findings, their reliability, their interpretation, and their broader theoretical or practical significance (30-40 minutes). Be creative in how you present the material.
III. Grading Back to top
You will be graded on:
(i) The thoroughness and originality of your research;
(ii) The effectiveness with which you organize your materials to speak to issues raised in objectives (a) through (c); and,
(iii) The quality of your in-class presentation and annotated bibliography.
IV. Schedule Back to top
Class |
Source Author |
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5. |
de Waal | Presentation Team Session #1 |
8. |
Blaffer Hrdy | Presentation Team Session #2 |
11. |
Earle | Presentation Team Session #3 |
14. |
Netting | Presentation Team Session #4 |
V. Class List Back to top
Name |
E-mail Address |
Phone |
Note: Please provide me with information to correct errors or omissions in this class list (bwinterhalder@ucdavis.edu)
