ANTH 312 - Primate Behavioral Ecology

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-4
A survey course concerned with behavior of primates, including humans. Relationships between social structure, instinct, behavioral ecology, and the environment. The relevance of the study of evolution and non-human primate behavior to an understanding of human behavior will be emphasized.

Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-4 - Upper Division Social and Behavioral Sciences
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas 1A, 1B, 1C and GE-2 with grade C- (CR) or better (GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division GE Area 4 requirements (Area D1-2 requirements for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous, or Online-Synchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Understand biological approaches to human and other primate behavior;
apply basic qualitative and quantitative methods related to behavioral data and research methods;
examine human diversity holistically and scientifically, discriminating among and analyzing conceptions and misconceptions of ethnicity and human biological variation.

GE-UD-4. Upper-division Social and Behavioral Sciences Learning Outcomes

analyze how power and social identity affect social outcomes for different cultural and economic groups using methods of social science inquiry and vocabulary appropriate to those methods;
demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply accurately disciplinary concepts of the social or behavioral sciences; and
demonstrate an understanding of and ability to effectively plan or conduct research using an appropriate method of the social or behavioral sciences.