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School of Archaeology and Anthropology · ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
This course will familiarise students with common methods used in biological anthropology. Specifically, it will deal with issues including the methods of data analysis, data presentation and hypothesis testing within the discipline of biological anthropology. This will be accomplished through students conducting both qualitative and quantitative analysis on an existing data set, and then interpreting the results of that analysis. The main aim of this course is to prepare students for the data analysis portion of their own thesis projects and future research in the discipline.
Oral presentation of methods relevant to a thesis, 20 minutes
Learning outcomes 1
Peer review of two other orally presented methods relevant to a thesis
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 5
Written report describing data analysis pertaining to a research project, 3000 words
Learning outcomes 2, 3, 4, 5
130 hours of total student learning time made up from: a) 24 hours of contact over 12 weeks of lectures and workshops; and b) 106 hours of independent student research, reading and writing.