ANTH 260 Lab

Extra Credit Opportunities

You may earn up to two points to apply to your final lab grade. Your final lab grade cannot exceed 30 points.

You must attend one or more of the public talks listed below and write a one-page essay (standard formatting, double spaced). Your essay should focus on research methodology and should link elements of the presentation with elements from lab materials/information.

Extra credit essays must be turned in by email within 48 hours of presentation (~6PM 2 days after talk)

Points to focus on include (but are not limited to):

  • What is the presenter’s main research question?
  • What types of variables are they dealing with? How do they operationalize their variables?
  • What type of data was used? How was it collected/gathered? Populations worked with?
  • What types of measures were taken to increase internal/external validity?
  • What types of statistical analyses were used?
  • What self-critiques are made by the researcher?
  • Based on points from this talk what might we have done better in our studies?
  • What additional questions can be asked concerning the researcher’s topic that were not addressed?
  • How did you see elements of research methodology we discussed in lab used in the presenter’s research design?

Note that many of these points will not necessarily be explicitly stated by the presenter, but may be implicitlyreferred to.

Essays will be evaluated along the following criteria: Connections between course content and talk details, discussion of presenter’s methodology/work, and clarity/organization in writing.Essays will be awarded .5, .75, or 1 point each.

Talks:

April 16, 4 PM, Dr. Bruce Ellis (Univ Arizona)

“Beyond Allostatic Load: Rethinking the Role of Stress in Regulating Human Development”

Dengerink Admin Room 110

April 17, 4:30 PM, Dr. Adam Boyette (WSUV)

"Learning to Share in an Egalitarian Society: The Nature of Childhood Among Aka Forest Foragers of the Central African Republic"

VECS 122

April 23, 4 PM, Don Shannon (Willamette Cultural Resources Associates)

“Conducting Ethnographic Research with Native Americans in the Northwest”

VLIB 201