Student Learning Outcomes are statements of knowledge, skills and abilities individual students should possess and can demonstrate upon completion of a learning experience or sequence of learning experiences. This course will provide you with information to develop a broad base of appreciation and understanding of biological processes that have played in a role in the development of humans and their closest animal relatives.Â
Articulate general principles of biology and science, as it relates to biological anthropology (SLO 1), which includes understanding evolution, basic cellular processes, genetic transmission, human variation and the scientific method.
Delineate the classification of non-human and human primates in a taxonomic relationship, focusing on their evolutionary origins and shared behavior (SLO 2), which includes understanding the biological relationship between primates and humans, as well as investigating primate behavior to better understand human behavior.
Understand the trajectory of human evolution based on key fossil finds (SLO 3), which includes understanding, interpreting and analyzing the current human fossil evidence to explain hominin evolution.