BIOLOGY OF HUMAN POPULATIONS PROGRAM

The Program

The program is designed to expose interested biology majors to a number of anthropology courses, primarily in biological anthropology. A second goal is to assure that anthropology majors concentrating in biological anthropology achieve a strong foundation in the basic biological sciences. The program should be of particular interest to premedical and predental students and to anthropology and biology majors considering graduate work in areas involving the biology of human populations. Application to the program from non-matriculated students require the approval of the director.

Requirements

Any student majoring in anthropology or biology also may choose to enter the Biology of Human Populations program. Program participants are required to take the courses listed below. All courses within the student's major count toward departmental requirements as well as toward program requirements. For matriculated students, successful completion of the program is recorded on official university transcripts. Non-matriculated students receive a certificate of completion.

Anthropology

ANTH C100 (Culture and Human Behavior) or
ANTH 103 (Introduction to Cultural Anthropology)
ANTH 212 (Human Variation)
ANTH 316 (Nutrition, Growth, and Behavior) and two from the following list of courses
PSYCH 270 (Statistics)
ANTH 313 (Developmental Models in Human Evolution)
ANTH 317 (Human Epidemiology)
ANTH 412 (Issues in Biological Anthropology)

Biochemistry

BIOCHM 383 (Biochemistry I)

Biology

BIOL 111, 112 (General Biology I and II)
BIOL 210 (Cell Biology)
BIOL 252 (Genetics) or
BIOL 2554 (Genetics/lecture only)
BIOL 290 (Population Biology and one from the following list of courses:
BIOL 312 (Developmental Biology and Embryology)
BIOL 313 (Developmental Biology and Embryology/lecture only)
BIOL 316 (Neurobiology)
BIOL 317 (Endocrinology)
BIOL 319 (Endocrinology/lecture only)
BIOL 342 (Ecology)
BIOL 352 (Evolution)

A grade point average of 2.0 or better is required for successful completion of the program. Courses taken on pass/fail basis may not be used to satisfy program requirements.

Transfer Credit Policy

The approval of transfer credits will be considered on a case-by-case basis by the program director.

Information

The Biology of Human Populations Program accepts students only as resources permit. For further information about the program, students should contact the Anthropology Department.