Human Ecology (lecture) WB-BI-ANG-15
The course of Human Ecology (HE) covers two main topics : (1) the sensitivity of the human organism to environmental factors and appropriate adaptive biological changes and (2) evolutionary processes and biocultural adjustments. The first topic is superior with respect to the second one. In addition to human ecology issues in relation to the general ecology, and history of EC, very important is the methodology used, including monitoring and modeling of the HC phenomena. The most important part concerns the biological adaptational changes (reactivity of the organism, biological strategy towards the environment, types of these changes). Against this background, diversity and geographical distribution of Homo sapiens are considered as well as the environmental physiology phenomena are also considered. The second topic covers issues related to the creation of Homo sapiens and socio-cultural forms of its existence. Detailed analysis concerns the cultural and bio-cultural adaptations. Lectures of this type are the basis for conducting tutorials, which include students’ presentations concerning the different ways of biological, bio-cultural and cultural adaptation to various climatic zones of the globe.
These elaborations refer to the problems of the first settlements (the largest cultural centers in the world), to material and immaterial culture, cultural change, migration and nutrition.
Subjects of lectures which are the base for tutorials
• What is human ecology (HE)
• Area of interest in Human Ecology
• Methodology in Human Ecology
• Organism reactivity
• Adaptation to environment
• Ecological problems of human development
• Anthropogeography and environmental physiology
• Human differentiation as a result of adaptive changes
• Region, human settlement and family as environment of human development
• Cultural adjustments
• Cultural adjustments to various biomes
• Civilization as adaptive strategy
• City-industrial civilization and environmental problems
• Ecology of nutrition, health and disease
• Future, postindustrial society, globalization
E-Learning
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Koordynatorzy przedmiotu
Efekty kształcenia
Knowledge:
BI1_WO1 - Student understands phenomena and processes in human ecology
BI1_WO4 - Student knows the main problems in different disciplines of human ecology and knows their relations with other ones in natural sciences
BI1_W05 – Student possesses knowledge about basic terminology in human ecology, knows current trends and methodological applications in human ecology.
Skills:
BI1_U02 – Student understands literature in Polish in human ecology; reads and understands uncomplicated scientific texts in English
BI1_U03 – Student is able to use existing sources of information, including electronic ones.
BI1_U10 - Student is able to prepare presentation and present it orally, concerning detailed biological problems
BI1_U11 – Student is able to learn under supervision.
Social competencies:
BI1_K02 –Student is able to cooperate and work within a group, playing different roles.
BI1_K05 – Student understands a necessity of improvements of his/her professional and personal competencies
BI1_K07 – Student shows a necessity of permanent actualization of his/her specific knowledge
ECTS - lectures
ECTS [1 ECTS=30 hours]
Participation in lectures: 30 hours
Preparation for exam: 30 hours
Total: 60 hours
ECTS: 60/30=2
ECTS- tutorials
Preparing for the tutorials: 30 hours
Preparing a presentation in PowerPoint
Preparing for the test: 30 hours
Total: 90 hours
ECTS: 90/30=3
Kryteria oceniania
Knowledge (BI1_W01, 04, 05)
Grade 2 (fail): Student does not understand phenomena and processes in human ecology, does not know the main problems in different disciplines of human ecology, in basic terminology and methodological applications in human ecology.
Grade 3 (sufficient): Student understands in limited degree phenomena and processes in human ecology, knows very little about main problems in different disciplines in human ecology, in basic terminology and methodological applications in human ecology.
Grade 4 (good): Student understands phenomena and processes in human ecology, knows about main problems in different disciplines of human ecology, basic terminology and methodological applications in human ecology.
Grade 5 (excellent): Student understands very well phenomena and processes in human ecology, has excellent knowledge about main problems in different disciplines of human ecology, basic terminology and methodological applications in human ecology.
Skills (BI1_U02,03,10,11)
Grade 2 (fail): Student does not understand literature in Polish in human ecology and simple scientific texts in English, is not able to: use available sources of information, prepare oral presentation, and learn under supervision
Grade 3 (sufficient): Student understands in limited degree literature in Polish in human ecology and simple scientific texts in English, is able in limited degree to: use available sources of information, prepare oral presentation, and learn under supervision
Grade 4 (good): Student understands literature in Polish in human ecology and simple scientific texts in English, is able to: use available sources of information, prepare oral presentation, and learn under supervision
Grade 5 (excellent): Student very well understands literature in Polish in human ecology and simple scientific texts in English, is able to: use available sources of information, prepare oral presentation, and learn under supervision
Social competencies (BI1_K02,05,07)
Grade 2 (fail): Student is not able to cooperate and work within a group, does not understand a necessity of improvements of his/her professional and personal competencies, does not show a necessity of permanent actualization of his/her specific knowledge
Grade 3 (sufficient): Student is partly able to cooperate and work within a group, understands in a limited degree a necessity of improvements of his/her professional and personal competencies, marginally shows a necessity of permanent actualization of his/her specific knowledge
Grade 4 (good): Student is able to cooperate and work within a group, understands a necessity of improvements of his/her professional and personal competencies, not always shows a necessity of permanent actualization of his/her specific knowledge
Grade 5 (excellent): Student is excellent in cooperation and in his/her work within a group, fully understands a necessity of improvements of his/her professional and personal competencies, always shows a necessity of permanent actualization of his/her specific knowledge
Lectures
Teaching methods: Lectures with PowerPoint presentations.
Method of assessment: test exam based on lectures
Tutorials
Passed exam in Human Ecology is the precondition for participation in tutorials
Effects of knowledge (BI1_W01, 04, 05)
Teaching method – preliminary lecture, individual reading
Assessment - written test
Effects of abilities (BI1_U02, 03, 10, 11)
Teaching method – individual reading, analysis of material for presentation
Assessment – PowerPoint presentation
Effects of social competencies (BI1_K02, 05, 07)
Teaching method – individual reading, discussion concerning different research problems
Assessment – written test
Literatura
Basic literature:
1. Campbell B., Ekologia człowieka, Historia naszego miejsca w przyrodzie od prehistorii do czasów współczesnych. Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa 1995;
2. Mackenzie A., Ball A.S., Virdee S.R., Ekologia. Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa 2000;
3. Moran E.F. Human Adaptability, An Introduction to Ecological Anthropology. Westview Press, Boulder 2008;
4. Siniarska A., Wolański N. (eds). Ecology of Aging. Kamla-Raj Enterprises, Delhi 2000;
5. Wolański N., Ekologia Człowieka. Podstawy Ochrony Środowiska i Zdrowia Człowieka, Tom 1 – Wrażliwość na czynniki środowiska i biologiczne zmiany przystosowawcze. Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa 2006;
6. Wolański N., Ekologia Człowieka. Podstawy Ochrony Środowiska i Zdrowia Człowieka, Tom 2 – Ewolucja i dostosowania biokulturowe. Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa 2006;
7. Wolański N. i B. Bogin (eds), The Family as an Environment for Human Development. Kamla-Raj Enterprises, Delhi 1996;
8. Young G.L., A conceptual framework for an interdisciplinary human ecology. Acta Oecologiae Hominis, 1, Lund 1989.
Supplementary reading:
1. Baker P.T., Human Adaptability. In "Human Biology. An introduction to human evolution, variation, growth, and adaptability" G.H. Harrison et al (eds), 3rd edition, Oxford Science Publications, Oxford, New York, Tokyo 1988. Boothroyd J. People and the Environment. Lerner Publishing Group, 2009;
2. Ellen R., Environment, Subsistence and System: The Ecology of Small-Scale Social Formations, Cambridge University Press, 1982;
3. Fox J., Rindfuss R.R., Walsh S.J., Mishra V., People and Environment. Springer, 2008;
4. Frisancho A.R., Human Adaptation and Accommodation. The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 1993;
5. Moran E.F., The Ecosystem Approach in Anthropology: From Concept to Practice. University of Michigan Press, 1991;
6. Moran E.F., Ostrom E., Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Human-Environment Interactions in Forest Ecosystems. MIT Press, 2005;
7. Siniarska A., Dickinson F., Annotated Bibliography in Human Ecology. Kamla-Raj Enterprises, Delhi 1996;
8. Young G.L., Origins of Human Ecology. Benchmark Papers in Ecology, 12, Hutchinson Ross Publ.Comp., Stroudsbourg 1983.
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