ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Zoology, Genetics and Physical Anthropology
Areas: Physical Anthropology
Center Faculty of Biology
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: Sin docencia (Extinguida)
Enrolment: No Matriculable
- Provide the student with the necessary foundations for the proper knowledge of the nature and contents of Biological Anthropology.
- Develop the methods and promote the critical assessment in the student on the understanding of the problem of human biological variability, in its spatial and temporal dimensions, as well as its practical consequences.
- Provide a framework that integrates the problems of Biological Anthropology in the field of scientific knowledge and especially in the general context of Biology.
THEORY (38 h)
- Taxonomic framing of the human species within the Primate Order (3 h)
- Evolutionary trends in the Hominization process (10 h)
- Paleoanthropology. The fossil record. Stages of hominization. Evolutionary trends, adaptability and diversification. Phylogenetic interpretations. Origin of modern humans (6 h)
- Molecular Anthropology (8 h)
- Somatology and Human Adaptability (5 h)
- Interpretation of the diversity of human populations. The main human groups. Origin, dynamics and diversification (6 h)
PRACTICES (12 hours. 6 sessions /2 h).
- Descriptive evaluation of the cranium.
- Craniometry of neurocranium and splanchnocranium. Metric study of the jaw. Height determination.
- Age and sex estimates. Cranial capacity determination.
- Analysis of dermal papillary lines.
- Blood groups phenotyping.
- Forensic and populational applications of the analysis of the genetic diversity.
TUTORIES (3 h)
Review and clarification of doubts, or other teaching aspects raised by students.
Basic bibliography
- Jurmain, R., Kilgore, L., Trevathan, W. and Ciochon, R.L., 2018. Introduction to Physical Anthropology. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth-Cengage Learning.
- Stanford, C., Allen, J.S., Anton S.C., 2017 (4th Ed.). Biological anthropology : the natural history of humankind. Pearson, Boston.
- Valls, A., 1985. Introducción a la antropología: fundamentos de la evolución y de la variabilidad biológica del hombre. 2ª ed. Barcelona: Labor.
- S. Stinson, B. Bogin, D. O'Rourke. 2012. Human Biology: An Evolutionary And Biocultural Perspective, Second Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.*
- Cela Conde, C. J. Y Ayala, F. J. 2014. Evolución Humana. Alianza Editorial.*
- D. H. O'Rourke. 2019. A Companion To Anthropological Genetics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.*
Complementary bibliography
- Conroy G.C., Pontzer H., 2012 (3rd Ed). Reconstructing modern origins. A modern synthesis. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
- Lewin, R., 2005. Human Evolution: An Illustrated Introduction. 5th ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.
- Speicher, M.R. Motulsky, A.G. and Antonarakis, S.E. eds., 2010. Vogel and Motulsky’s Human genetics: Problems and Approaches. 4th completely rev. ed. Berlin: Springer.
- F. H. Smith And J. C. M. Ahern. 2013. The Origins Of Modern Humans: Biology Reconsidered. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.*
* References available in electronic format for USC students and PDI.
BÁSIC/GENERIC
The Basic and General competences are those that appear in the memory of the Degree.
CROSSCURRICULAR
CT1 - capacity for analysis and synthesis.
CT2 - capacity for reasoning and argumentation
CT5 - ability to develop and present an organized and understandable text
CT8 - ability in the management of Information and Communications technologies (ICTs)
CT9 - use of bibliographic resources and Internet information
CT10 - use of information provided in a foreign language
CT11 - ability to solve problems by means of the implementation of an integrated knowledge management.
SPECIFIC
CE1.c - Area of competence: instrumental knowledge, skills and abilities: Basic techniques in biology.
CE4.h - Area of competence: Biodiversity: Fossil record.
CE6.b - Area of competence: Human biology, heredity and evolution: Evolutionary mechanisms and models.
CE6.e - Area of competence: Human biology, heredity and evolution: Evolution and diversity of the human species.
CE6.e - Area of competence: Human biology, heredity and evolution: Genetic and evolutionary analysis
- Exhibition classes (non-mandatory): 3 hours of weekly master classes.
- Tutoring (non-mandatory): Clarification of the doubts raised by the students.
- Interactive classes (mandatory): Five laboratory practices (10 h), and one practice with computers (2 h).
Practices.- Two evaluation modalities that will count as 15% of the final rating:
(a) Continuous evaluation: Active participation, by attendance (mandatory non-evaluable), followed by the preparation and delivery of a final report (mandatory and evaluable). Attendance control: Appointment of each of the students listed in the group that makes up the practice. Compliance: Maximum a lack of assistance with supporting accreditation.
Or
(b) Exam of the practices developed during the course for those students with circumstances that avoid or make it very difficult to benefit from the previous evaluation modality (a).
Repeaters who have passed practices in previous courses will be assigned the grade previously obtained.
Theory.-
1) Conducting questionnaires (mandatory and evaluable) of continuous evaluation (15%) on the Virtual Campus.
2) Final written examination of the subject taught in the course (70%), complementary to the continuous evaluation. The contents of the theory are developed in two main parts. The overall note of the final review is established, in principle, by the weighted average for both parts. However, in order to reach 50% of the maximum score it is necessary to obtain at least 35% of the maximum possible rating of each part.
To pass the subject, the student will be required to reach at least 50% of the maximum score in each of the 3 evaluable sections (practices, questionnaires and final exam).
On the second opportunity the evaluation criteria will be modified only in the elimination of the questionnaires. In this case the weight of the score of the Practice Memory will be 30%.
The positive evaluation achieved by either side (Theory/Practice) will be kept for four academic courses.
The review and questionnaires shall assess competencies: CG1, CG2, CG5, CT1, CT2, CT5, CT9, CT10, CT11, CE1.c, CE4.h, CE6.b, CE6.d, CE6.e
The implementation of practices and the report of practices will evaluate the competencies: CB3, CB5, CG2, CT1, CT2, CT5, CT8, CT11, CE1.c, CE4.h, CE6.e.
Face-to-face hours:
- Theoretical: 38 hours
- Practices: 12 hours
- Tutoring: 3 hours
- Evaluation: 4 hours
Non-face-to-face hours: 93 total hours (80 hours of study and 13 h elaboration practices report)
Total workload: 150 hours
- Continuous attendance and monitoring of teaching.
- Bibliographic support oriented to the preparation and study of the subject.
- Tutoring as a support system to clarify or deepen individually in those aspects that the student needs to settle.
Contingency Plan
Throughout the course, and especially if we reach scenarios 2 or 3, direct communication channels will be established with students (forums, virtual tutorials, Moodle messaging, and especially USC email...) especially through an operational Virtual Classroom of the subject onthe Moodle platform , available to students from the first moment.
Teaching methodology
Scenario 2 (distance; partial restrictions to the physical presence):
- Exhibition classes: 3 hours of weekly master classes with alternate shifts in the classroom, provided that its organization is compatible with the adoption of the measures established in the health protection protocols of the University of Santiago de Compostela in force at all times.
- Tutoring: Clarification of the doubts raised by the students. Face-to-face or virtual.
- Interactive classes: Two laboratory practices (2.5 h face-to-face synchronous+2.5h virtual asynchronous each), and one practice with computers (2 h face-to-face synchronous in computer classroom).
Scenario 3 (closure of the facilities; inability to teach with physical presence):
- Exhibition classes: Virtual classes with temporality adapted to be able to impart the contents expressed in this teaching guide. Teaching would adapt, as far as possible, to a virtual synchronous strategy, and failing that to an asynchronous teaching.
- Tutoring: Clarification of the doubts raised by the students. Virtual.
- Interactive classes: Two laboratory practices (5 hours virtual each, divided into 2-3 sessions), and one practice with computers (2 hours virtual). Teaching would adapt, as far as possible, to a virtual synchronous strategy, and failing that to an asynchronous teaching.
Remote synchronous classes would be performed using the MS Teams platform. For activities and asynchronous content, the USC Virtual Campus (Moodle platform) will be used, for which a Virtual Classroom of the subject will be created.
Evaluation system
The final examination shall, in principle, be face-to-face. However, in the event that health scenarios require USC to cancel such face-to-face tests, they will become telematic, using the MS Teams platform.
Continuous evaluation tracking in Scenario 3 will be done through the MS Teams and Moodle platform participation records.
For cases of fraudulent conduct of exercises or tests, what is included in the Student Academic Performance Assessment and Grade Review Regulations shall apply.
Jose Luis Blazquez Caeiro
Coordinador/a- Department
- Zoology, Genetics and Physical Anthropology
- Area
- Physical Anthropology
- Phone
- 881813333
- b.caeiro [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Javier Rodriguez Luis
- Department
- Zoology, Genetics and Physical Anthropology
- Area
- Physical Anthropology
- Phone
- 881813262
- javier.rodriguez.luis [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Temporary PhD professor
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| 11:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | Classroom 03. Carl Linnaeus |
| Tuesday | |||
| 11:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | Classroom 03. Carl Linnaeus |
| Wednesday | |||
| 10:00-11:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 | Spanish | Classroom 04: James Watson and Francis Crick |
| 11:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | Classroom 03. Carl Linnaeus |
| Thursday | |||
| 10:00-11:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 | Spanish | Classroom 04: James Watson and Francis Crick |
| Friday | |||
| 10:00-11:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 | Spanish | Classroom 04: James Watson and Francis Crick |
| 05.20.2022 10:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 01. Charles Darwin |
| 05.20.2022 10:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 | Classroom 01. Charles Darwin |
| 05.20.2022 10:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 | Classroom 02. Gregor Mendel |
| 05.20.2022 10:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 02. Gregor Mendel |
| 05.20.2022 10:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 | Classroom 03. Carl Linnaeus |
| 05.20.2022 10:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 03. Carl Linnaeus |
| 07.06.2022 10:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 01. Charles Darwin |
| 07.06.2022 10:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 | Classroom 01. Charles Darwin |
| 07.06.2022 10:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 | Classroom 02. Gregor Mendel |
| 07.06.2022 10:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 02. Gregor Mendel |