Courses in this FIG:

Anthropology 199 College Connections in Animal Behavior Dr. Frances White

Anthropology 171 Monkeys and Apes Dr. Frances White

Biology 132 Introduction to Animal Behavior Dr. Debbie Schlenoff

Staff Information for Anth 199:

Professor: Dr. Frances White

Campus address: Department of Anthropology

352 Condon Hall

Email: fwhite@uoregon.edu

Telephone: 346-5278

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Statement of purpose and goals:

When you first arrive as a student at the University of Oregon, you are met with an array of courses offered by a wide diversity of departments that is bewildering. It is hard to see how take charge of your academic career and identify and pursue the subjects that interest you. College connections are here to show you the relationships between courses from different departments so that you can make informed decisions and actively design your course of study as an undergraduate student at the University of Oregon. In this class, we’ll be following our interests in animal behavior to see the ways that universities are filled with connections by looking at how different departments look at animals in very different ways. We will be following studies of animal behavior through the perspectives of anthropologists, biologists, psychologists, and political scientists, and especially the animals we will be studying. During this class, we will help you develop your academic skills to make the most of the many University resources open to you. And as this is a course about animal behavior, we will use some of our time to get out and look at some animals, and as this is the University of Oregon, and the home of the Oregon Ducks, it’s only fitting that we will be looking at the campus ducks!

Readings and assignments: All worksheets and readings will be posted on Blackboard as viewable or pdf files.

Course description:

	Topic	Assignment
Week 1	Introduction: how to follow a topic through the maze of departments: tracking Animal Behavior and Evolution	Identify and find courses and faculty interests worksheet
Week 2	How to make the most of university resources 1: Blackboard / DuckWeb / Gladstone	Blackboard worksheet
Week 3	Meet the Ducks: how to collect animal behavior data and what can you really tell about what is going on in a duck’s head	Readings on data collection
Week 4	How to make the most of university resources 2: Science Library – assignment on Animal Thinking	Library Assignment
Week 5	The Evolutionary Duck: everything this duck does is about getting his/her genes into the next generation.	Readings on Blackboard
Week 6	The Psychological Duck: looking a the components of behavior	Readings on Blackboard
Week 7	The Political Duck: this duck has a strategy to succeed that involves allies and enemies	Readings on Blackboard
Week 8	The Thinking Duck versus the Emotional Duck: how much can you say about what a duck is thinking or feeling?	Readings on Blackboard
Week 9	2-year plans.  Time to think about your academic future and registration for classes.
Week 10	Class discussion of the five sides of ducks