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ANTH 1002 Class notes

Anthropology for a better world

Week 2 Friday noon tut

Welcome again to ANTH 1002: Anthropology for a better world.

This class will be an adventure. To make sure that you each grow and develop in your thinking and understanding, stick to the weekly cycle.

  • Read Module Zero.
  • Set a weekly schedule that works for you.
  • Consider talking to an academic advisor about your strategies for the short and the long term.

Reminder: The quiz in Week 3 is in the tutorial in which you are registered in Week 3.

How does a tut turn into a community?

What makes a great tut?

Log on to Padlet and comment here: https://padlet.com/sydney/what-makes-a-great-tut-lbhrvkyx3qimiy1y.

The link is in a Canvas announcement posted today.

Innate and acquired

Figure 3. Traits can fall into one of two columns, either innate (left) or acquired, meaning learned (right), and one of two rows, either universal (top) or particular (bottom). (Image created by gen AI.)

Discuss the UPIA grid

Form groups of 3 or 4.

Introduce yourselves. Select one reporter and one note taker.

Discuss:

  1. For each quadrant, generate some examples of a behavior or trait that belongs there.
  2. Which were easy and which were hard?
  3. Which ones were controversial? Why?

We will hear from each group’s reporter about what was easy, hard, and controversial.