Course TA: Amy Shapiro                      email address: aeshapiro@asu.edu

Office: SS 218A

Office hours: Tuesday 1:00-2:30 and Wednesday 10:30-12:00 or by appointment

Course Description:

            This course will examine the patterns and causes of human biological diversity in the world. The origin and dispersal of all major human populations will be discussed. Past and present research into the subject will be reviewed, including debates about the origin of modern human variation, the meaning of "race", human adaptation, and the biological, archaeological and linguistic evidence for the colonization and settlement of the world.

Pre-requisites: ASM 104 with a grade of D or better

Required Texts: There are two required texts.

Relethford, JH (2003) Reflections of Our Past, Westview Press.

Nabhan GP, (2004) Why Some Like it Hot: Food, Genes, and Cultural Diversity. Island Press

Additional Reading:

            Additional reading will be placed online on Blackboard. These readings will provide additional information about topics covered in class and some are required for particular homework assignments.

Course webpages: http://www.public.asu.edu/~acstone/World/ and on blackboard.

Course Format: This is a lecture course that will include homework assignments and tests.

Final Grades:

 A-/ A/ A+          89.5-93.4/ 93.5-97.4/ 97.5-100               Excellent

B- /B/ B+          79.5-83.4/ 83.5-87.4/ 87.5-89.4              Good

C/ C+               69.5-77.4/ 77.5-79.4                              Average

D                      59.5-69.4                                             Passing

E                      <60                                                      Failure

XE                                                                                Failure due to Academic Dishonesty 

Incompletes: A mark of "I" (incomplete) is given by the instructor when you are otherwise doing acceptable work but are unable to complete the course because of illness or other conditions beyond your control. You are required to arrange with the instructor for the completion of the course requirements. The arrangement must be recorded on the Request for Grade of Incomplete form (http://students.asu.edu/forms/incomplete-grade-request).

Late Assignments: Unexcused late assignments will not be accepted.  Excuses for an assignment must be made an approved in advance of the due date of the assignment.  Requests for excuses must be written, either on paper or email, and approval must be obtained, either by an email reply or by having the paper excuse signed. In order to get credit, with the late assignment you must turn in a copy of the email approval or signed written excuse.

Grade Appeals: ASU has formal and informal channels to appeal a grade. If you wish to appeal any grading decisions, please see  http://catalog.asu.edu/appeal.

Course Schedule: Week by week (or day by day) outline of lectures/lab topics, readings and assignments or other landmark events is posted on the course website.

Course Policies: Talking and texting on cell phones are a distraction to other students in the class. Please put all cell phones away and turn them off or on silent during class.

Student Standards: Students are required to read and act in accordance with university and Arizona Board of Regents policies, including:

The ABOR Code of Conduct: Arizona Board of Regents Policies 5-301 through 5-308: http://www.abor.asu.edu/1_the_regents/policymanual/chap5/5Section_C.pdf

Academic Integrity: All students are responsible for reviewing and following ASU’s policies on academic integrity: http://provost.asu.edu/academicintegrity. If you fail to meet the standards of academic integrity in any of the criteria listed on the university policy website, sanctions will be imposed by the instructor, school, and/or dean. Academic dishonesty includes borrowing ideas without proper citation, copying others’ work (including information posted on the internet), and failing to turn in your own work for group projects. Please be aware that if you follow an argument closely, even if it is not directly quoted, you must provide a citation to the publication, including the author, date and page number. If you directly quote a source, you must use quotation marks and provide the same sort of citation for each quoted sentence or phrase.  You may work with other students on assignments, however, all writing that you turn in must be done independently.  If you have any doubt about whether the form of cooperation you contemplate is acceptable, ask the TA or the instructor in advance of turning in an assignment. Please be aware that the work of all students submitted electronically will be scanned using SafeAssignment, which compares them against everything posted on the internet, online article/paper databases, newspapers and magazines, and papers submitted by other students.

Student Support and Disability Accommodations: ASU offers support services through Counseling (http://students.asu.edu/counseling), the Learning Resources Center (www.asu.edu/lrc), and the Disability Resource Center (http://www.asu.edu/studentaffairs/ed/drc/). If you are a student in need of special arrangements for we will do all we can to help, based on the recommendations of these services. For the sake of equity for all students, we cannot make any accommodations without formal guidance from these services.