3 credits
Fall 2025 Lecture Upper DivisionData from last updated 11/17/2025
Fall 2025
Fall 2025 Instructors:
This course examines human universal patterns and cross-cultural variation in pregnancy, birth, and infant care practices, using evolutionary and biocultural perspectives. Students will connect course themes to current events and controversies, such as medical models of birth, public breastfeeding, and parent-infant co-sleeping.
Learning Outcomes1Identify evolutionarily novel aspects of the human reproductive pattern.
2Compare birthing, infant feeding, and infant care practices across human societies using a biocultural framework.
3Evaluate contemporary medical controversies surrounding pregnancy, birth, and babies critically.
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