UW-Milwaukee: L&S Freshman Scholars Seminars

Fall 2008 Seminars

Anthropology

Places of the Dead: The Archeology of Cemeteries (Full)

Pat Richards, Senior Scientist

This course will help students to understand the past through cemetery studies. This course explores the history of cemeteries as social phenomena and how archaeological investigations have contributed to our understanding of the role cemeteries play and have played in cultures. We will be reading reports of investigations of cemeteries as well as histories of cemeteries. Students will learn to correlate documentary and skeletal evidence in order to understand the advantages and limitations of each. We will explore the aspects of material culture and burial representativeness, as well as issues of preservation, skeletal evidence and demographics.

Dr. Pat Richards has been involved in excavation and analysis of several historic and prehistoric cemeteries including the Milwaukee County Pauper cemetery and the Old Catholic Cemetery of Milwaukee. She is interested in both material culture and biological aspects of cemeteries including exploration of questions relating to definitions of childhood, health, material culture, and spatial distribution within cemeteries. For fun she tortures her children by visiting any cemetery they pass during the course of driving vacations.

Number: ANTHRO 193, SEM 001
Credits: 3SS
Time: MW 9:30am-10:45am
Place: SAB G28
Class Number: 53546

Sex, Drugs, Rock n Roll (You Name It): The Neuroendocrinology of Young Adulthood (Full)

Benjamin Campbell , Visiting Assistant Professor

Recent research in psychobiology has demonstrated continuing changes in hormones and the brain during young adulthood with important implications for behavior. At the same time, more socially orientated studies indicate that young adult behaviors are strongly influenced by exposure to the social environment, including peers, parents and media. Together these findings suggest that the intellectual, social and behavioral development of college students may be uniquely tied to processes of brain maturation.

The freshman seminar proposed here uses our understanding of brain development and its social influences to discuss the college experience with freshman just starting college. The seminar will consider the development of neuroendocrine systems associated with judgment during adolescence and young adulthood and their implications for experimentation with drug and alcohol use, intimate social relationships, music and social bonding experiences. In addition, the course will discuss neuroendrocrine circuits involved in stress and the role they may play in depression, eating disorders and events such as the recent rash of campus shooting. We will also discuss how brain and hormonal changes during this period may be effected for good or bad by the relative freedom/lack of structure on college campuses.

Essential learning outcomes of this course include familiarity with the vocabulary and major concepts of behavioral neuroscience. In addition, a major focus will be on the development of a critical perspective about the scientific study of human behavior and how it can be applied to an understanding of one's self and one's peers during the college years.

Benjamin Campbell is on the faculty of the anthropology department at UWM. His research interests are focused on the evolutionary study of human biology and behavior which he approaches through hormonal and genetic analyses. He is particularly interested in the interaction of biology and environmental in the development of the brain during childhood, adolescence and young adulthood. He has conducted research in various parts of Africa, including pastoral nomadic groups in northern Kenya. His current work includes the study of risk-taking in young men, as well as the evolution of human life histories. His hobbies including running, hiking, and watching movies.

Number: ANTHRO 193, SEM 002
Credits: 3SS
Time: TR 9:30am-10:45am
Place: SAB 240
Class Number: 60212

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