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Anthropology of Adolescence: Biocultural Interactions

Course Overview

Date / Time Location Credits Minimium Tuition*
9/3/24 - 12/13/24
MoWe 5:30p.m. – 6:45p.m.		 McCormack M01-0410 3 $1984 (guest students)
Date
9/3/24 - 12/13/24
Time
MoWe 5:30p.m. – 6:45p.m.
Location
McCormack M01-0410
Credits
3
Min. Tuition*
$1984 (guest students)

Description

This course takes an anthropological, biological, and phylogenetic approach to questions about adolescence, including: What elements of growth and maturation define adolescence, and is this life stage unique to humans? How do the body's priorities change, and what can we learn about the selective pressures that shaped human evolution when we examine those changes in the context of ecological and cultural variation? How, at the threshold of adulthood, is gender newly constructed, and what commonalities and cultural variations in the gender inculcation process exist across the glove? Texts will include literature on human growth and development; comparative data from non-human primates; anthropological literature on rites of passage viewed cross-culturally; and literary dramatizations of coming of age.

This course is closed for registration.

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Course Details

Session

Regular Academic Session

Class Dates

9/3/2024 - 12/13/2024

Location

McCormack M01-0410

Enrolled / Capacity

18 / 35

Status

Closed

Instructor

Meredith Reiches

Tuition*

$1984 (guest students)

* The tuition estimate is based on minimum, single-course cost to a new student who is a Massachusetts resident and not enrolled in a multi-course program. State residency, online/in person modality, and matriculation to a degree program may affect cost.

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