Prerequisites: Admissions to Horizons Programming CHRHS; permission of the Instructor
Basics Texts Used:
Diamond, Jared. (2002). The Third Chimpanzee. New York: Harper-Perennial.
Holder, Philancy. (2002, 2008). Etruscans: A Beginning. HP Publishing: Cortona (IT)
Tattersall, Ian. (2001). The Human Odyssey. New York: American Museum of
Natural History.
Thomas, Elizabeth M. (2007). The Old Way: A Story of the First People. Picador:
New York.
Reference Texts:
Dawkins, Richard (2005). The Ancestor’s Tale. New York: Houghton-Mifflin.
Diamond, Jared. (2001). Guns, Germs, and Steel. New York: Harper/Collins.
Jones, Landon Y. (2000). The Essential Lewis and Clark. New York: Harper/Collins.
Krech, Shepard. (2000). The Ecological Indian. New York: Simon and Shuster.
Lawson, John. (ed. 1998). A Voyage to the New Carolina. Chapel Hill: UNC Press.
Silver, Timothy. (2000). A New Face on the Frontier. Appalachian University Press.
Lavenda, Robt. (2000). Core Concepts in Cultural Anthropology. London: Mayfield.
About the Course:
Horizons ANTHROPOLOGY is an interdisciplinary course in the social sciences and humanities, designed to weave together elements of anthropology, philosophy of science, neuroscience, and history. It provides a framework for highly able students to pursue investigations spanning the realms of many disciplines. The course pursues an investigation of mankind as an emerging, conscious, thinking, and motivated population, intent on making continual meaning out of experiences.
Using the approach of Anthropology, the course traces some of the major steps and themes in the development of culture and knowing as expressions of the special gifts that have made human beings unique. Horizons ANTHROPOLOGY emphasizes vigorous intellectual discourse and inquiry on a broad range of interrelated topics in the past and present culture. Several major independent and team-based projects anchor the course. The pacing and expectations of student learning are collegiate and emphasize multiple styles of thinking, learning, and presenting. Continuous reading assignments track the development of five major ‘understandings’ as well as three ‘paradigms’ that form the skeleton for the course.
Horizons ANTHROPOLOGY 2009 (2)
COURSE OUTLINE in General:
Unit I: WHAT is Anthropology all About? Environmental History analysis. Seeking the meaning of
Culture across history; building paradigms of inquiry;
Environment and adaptation as cultural determinants;
The structure of Field Work and Ethnography. Local
Individual Ethnography Project.
Unit II: ORIGINS, Origins, everywhere: the rise of human beings;
Development of the brain, hand, and social groupings
‘Into the Great Leap’—setting off on the Journey;
Migration and the growth of differentiated groups.
Unit III: The Search for Structure thru Culture: Ethnography as
A critical lens of inquiry for anthropology; Journeys
Of Place and Shelter, settings for Family/Social
Order; Agriculture as a fuel for differences
Unit IV: Cultural Institutions and Rules: Marriage, Kinship, Property
And Child-rearing; Case Study—The Yanomami
Unit V: Ancient Journeys: Etruscans, Africans, American Indians.
Influence of place and movement on evolving culture;
The rise and fall of social systems; impacts on
Patterns of settlement and survival
Unit VI: Knowledge and Imperfection: The REALLY BIG
QUESTIONS emerging about EVERY culture—and
Potential answers that have been generated and
Discussed in Anthropology: Position Paper Debates
Unit VII: Summing Up: Is the Whole greater than the PARTS?
HORIZONS ANTHROPOLOGY Fall Term 2010
‘Origins, Journeys, and Cultural Curiosities’
Grade Levels: 10th-11th One Semester credit (0.5)
Prerequisites: Admissions to Horizons Programming CHRHS; permission of the Instructor
Basics Texts Used:
Diamond, Jared. (2002). The Third Chimpanzee. New York: Harper-Perennial.
Holder, Philancy. (2002, 2008). Etruscans: A Beginning. HP Publishing: Cortona (IT)
Tattersall, Ian. (2001). The Human Odyssey. New York: American Museum of
Natural History.
Thomas, Elizabeth M. (2007). The Old Way: A Story of the First People. Picador:
New York.
Reference Texts:
Dawkins, Richard (2005). The Ancestor’s Tale. New York: Houghton-Mifflin.
Diamond, Jared. (2001). Guns, Germs, and Steel. New York: Harper/Collins.
Jones, Landon Y. (2000). The Essential Lewis and Clark. New York: Harper/Collins.
Krech, Shepard. (2000). The Ecological Indian. New York: Simon and Shuster.
Lawson, John. (ed. 1998). A Voyage to the New Carolina. Chapel Hill: UNC Press.
Silver, Timothy. (2000). A New Face on the Frontier. Appalachian University Press.
Lavenda, Robt. (2000). Core Concepts in Cultural Anthropology. London: Mayfield.
About the Course:
Horizons ANTHROPOLOGY is an interdisciplinary course in the social sciences and humanities, designed to weave together elements of anthropology, philosophy of science, neuroscience, and history. It provides a framework for highly able students to pursue investigations spanning the realms of many disciplines. The course pursues an investigation of mankind as an emerging, conscious, thinking, and motivated population, intent on making continual meaning out of experiences.
Using the approach of Anthropology, the course traces some of the major steps and themes in the development of culture and knowing as expressions of the special gifts that have made human beings unique. Horizons ANTHROPOLOGY emphasizes vigorous intellectual discourse and inquiry on a broad range of interrelated topics in the past and present culture. Several major independent and team-based projects anchor the course. The pacing and expectations of student learning are collegiate and emphasize multiple styles of thinking, learning, and presenting. Continuous reading assignments track the development of five major ‘understandings’ as well as three ‘paradigms’ that form the skeleton for the course.
Horizons ANTHROPOLOGY 2009 (2)
COURSE OUTLINE in General:
Unit I: WHAT is Anthropology all About? Environmental History analysis. Seeking the meaning of
Culture across history; building paradigms of inquiry;
Environment and adaptation as cultural determinants;
The structure of Field Work and Ethnography. Local
Individual Ethnography Project.
Unit II: ORIGINS, Origins, everywhere: the rise of human beings;
Development of the brain, hand, and social groupings
‘Into the Great Leap’—setting off on the Journey;
Migration and the growth of differentiated groups.
Unit III: The Search for Structure thru Culture: Ethnography as
A critical lens of inquiry for anthropology; Journeys
Of Place and Shelter, settings for Family/Social
Order; Agriculture as a fuel for differences
Unit IV: Cultural Institutions and Rules: Marriage, Kinship, Property
And Child-rearing; Case Study—The Yanomami
Unit V: Ancient Journeys: Etruscans, Africans, American Indians.
Influence of place and movement on evolving culture;
The rise and fall of social systems; impacts on
Patterns of settlement and survival
Unit VI: Knowledge and Imperfection: The REALLY BIG
QUESTIONS emerging about EVERY culture—and
Potential answers that have been generated and
Discussed in Anthropology: Position Paper Debates
Unit VII: Summing Up: Is the Whole greater than the PARTS?