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How to Make (Some) Anthro Stick: Teaching Introductory Anthropology
So you are planning your first Introduction to Anthropology course or you are considering an overhaul of this course. What do you do? In my previous blog post I suggested that you approach the course design from the perspective that you only have one shot to make this course relevant to most students. Know your audience, I recommend. I find that a third or more of my students arrive just to fulfill a social science requirement but, more importantly, almost every student arrives without ever having taken any social science in their K-12 years. Therefore, I tell my students how glad I am that they now have a chance to learn some social science, specifically anthropology. read more…
- dateFebruary 25, 2014
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- posted bySarah Mahler
You’ve Only Got One Shot: Teaching Introductory Anthropology
“You’ve only got one shot” is what I continuously say to myself when planning for, and teaching, Introduction to Anthropology. If you pardon the military metaphor, you’ll find that there are truly solid and compelling reasons to treat Intro with missionary zeal… read more…
- dateFebruary 24, 2014
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- posted bySarah Mahler
Teaching “Collaboration” While Trying to Do It
How do you teach a course on collaboration that addresses the long history of the process in the discipline, and gets at what is new about its most recent incarnations? More significant still: How do you teach what is so important about the idea of collaboration in anthropology today, while also addressing the complex practicalities involved in trying to actually make it happen? read more…
- dateNovember 1, 2013
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- posted byAndrew Walsh