Courses of Study 2019-2020 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
Courses of Study 2019-2020 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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ANTHR 3305 - Anthropology of Parenting


(GB) (SBA-AS)      
Summer. 4 credits. Student option grading.

Taught online.

M. Small.

Human children are packets of genes that represent individual reproductive success. Like all animals, humans are selected by evolution to care for their offspring, but human infants and children require more intense parental investment than the offspring of most other species. Why is this so? Human parents are also influenced by cultural belief systems and ideology that play out in parenting styles. How do various belief systems influence parent-offspring interaction? In this course we will examine the human infant as a biologically designed organism that has co-evolved with caretakers, and then look at the various parenting styles across cultures that also mold our young.



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