Research methods in anthropology and human ecology. From the field to the lab WF-OB-PORM
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What are the biggest problems facing humanity in the 21st century? Hunger? Regional water shortages? Global pandemics, including acquired immunodeficiency syndrome? Meeting global energy demands? Global warming? Worldwide financial collapse? International terrorism? The answer is all of these and more. Increasingly, scientists dealing with the issue of sustainable development and the human-environment relationship realize that man is part of nature, and it has always been so. Therefore, modern problems require a new, more integrated, transdisciplinary understanding of how humans have interacted with the rest of nature in the past. Assessment of the needs of modern man in the context of sustainable development partly results from the biological basis, adaptation, and behavior that people have had in the past. Using laboratory methods, we are able to reconstruct this information and draw conclusions about human functioning in the environment in the past and today. For example, as part of the course, students learn how to reconstruct an ancestral diet, discuss what a "sustainable diet" is based on information about people who lived many hundreds of years ago. The content presented in the class concerns human research on the basis of skeletal remains. The purpose of the course is to provide knowledge how human societies interacted with ecosystems, and what methodology allows us to establish this.
Term 2024/25_L:
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(in Polish) Opis nakładu pracy studenta w ECTS
Term 2023/24_L: 6 ECTS = 1 ECTS (lecture) + 2 ECTS (participation in the discussion during the classes)+ 3 ECTS (mastering the Essential FTIR software and preparation for tests) | Term 2024/25_L: 1 ECTS corresponds to 25–30 hours of student workload. | Term 2022/23_Z: 6 ECTS = 1 ECTS (lecture) + 2 ECTS (participation in the discussion during the classes)+ 3 ECTS (mastering the Essential FTIR software and preparation for tests) |
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Preliminary Requirements
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Learning outcomes
Student explains the relationships and interdependencies between various natural and social science disciplines, particularly those dealing with the living and non-living components of nature.
The student is able to apply basic knowledge of mathematics, physics and chemistry to describe processes occurring in the natural environment.
Knows the terminology and methods used in natural science research. Characterizes isotope techniques for studying environmental components and is able to combine knowledge from various fields of natural science in order to solve environmental problems and issues related to human-environment relations.
Assessment criteria
Lecture:
1. 70% attendance.
2. Final test (100-90% very good, 80-70% good, 60-50% satisfactory, less than 50% insufficient).
Bibliography
literature available from the lecturer, or selected recent open access publications
Term 2024/25_L:
Suggested literature available to those interested from the lecturer: York, R. (2006). Ecological paradoxes: William Stanley Jevons and the paperless office. Human Ecology Review, 143-147. |
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