Final Exam Information

• Final: Tuesday, March 18th, 4-7pm
  • You may have the entire three hours to complete the exam; however I expect the exam can be finished in 1 1/2 hours.
  • You must begin the exam at 4pm
• Please bring a BLUE BOOK to the exam (smaller size is fine).
• The final will have three sections like the midterms--identification, short answer, short essay
• The idenitification and short answer sections will be slightly longer than in the midterms
• There will be some options for the identification and short answer sections
• Point values will be indicated for each question--use this information to budget your time and effort wisely
• The exam will cover lectures and readings since the second midterm (Feb 22nd - Mar 14th)
• Readings include:
  • Whorf, 1964
  • Hirschfeld, 1994, Is the acquisition of social categories based on domain-specific competence or knowledge transfer?
  • Hirschfeld, 1996, The cultural biology of race
  • Gil-white, 2001
  • Boyer, Ch.1-7
• At the end of Friday's class (Mar 14th), we will have a mini-review of the most important concepts from the Boyer chapters
• Office hours before the exam:
  • Tuesday, March 11th, 10-12
  • Tuesday, March 18th, 10-12
• Final exam scores and final grades will be posted by perm number on the website for those students who grant permission to do so. If you wish to have your scores posted, please sign the waiver in office hours or after class.

Midterm 2 Information

• Midterm 2: Wendesday, February 20th
• Please bring a BLUE BOOK to the exam (smaller size is fine).
• The midterm will be short-answer/short-essay
• It will have three sections like the first midterm--identification, short answer, short essay
• There will be some options for the identification and short answer sections
• Point values will be indicated for each question--use this information to budget your time and effort wisely
• The exam will cover lectures and readings since the first midterm (Jan 30th - Feb 15th)
• Readings include:
  • Freeman, Ch. 7; Ch. 8 (pp. 103-105, 110-112); Ch. 9 (pp. 117-122); Ch. 10 (pp.125-129)
  • Freeman, Ch. 11 (pp. 137-143); Ch. 12; Ch. 14
  • Mead, excerpt: Coming of Age in Samoa
  • Whiting, 1994, altruistic and egoistic behavior in six cultures
  • Daly & Wilson, 1988
  • Nisbett & Cohen, 1996, attitudes towards violence
  • Cohen, Nisbett et al, 1996, "experimental ethnography"
  • Figueredo et al, 2004
• NOTE: I will be out of town for a job interview Feb. 16-20th. I'm going to Berlin, Germany. I will have email access during this time, so you may email me with questions, but please allow for extra time for me to get back to you and for the time difference (Germany is 9 hours ahead). If you would like to meet with me before the exam and cannot make office hours, please email me to schedule a time on Thursday or Friday.
• Midterm scores will be posted by perm number on the website for those students who grant permission to do so. If you wish to have your scores posted, please sign the waiver in office hours or after class.

Midterm 1 Information

• Midterm 1: Monday, January 28th
• The midterm will be short-answer/short-essay
• Please bring a BLUE BOOK to the exam (smaller size is fine).
• One section will be short definition/identification (1-2 sentences) of key terms
• One section will be longer, short-essay responses
• Point values will be indicated for each question--use this information to budget your time and effort wisely
• The exam will cover lectures and readings since the beginning of the quarter
• Readings include:
  • Brown, 1991
  • Pinker, 2002
  • Freeman, Ch 1-2: only as supplement/reinforcement of ideas discussed in Brown and in lecture
  • Freud excerpt: focus on basic idea/theory of incest only, as reviewed in class
  • Malinowski excerpt: focus on basic idea/theory of incest only, as reviewed in class
  • Westermarck excerpt
  • Shepher, 1971
  • Wolf, 1970
  • Lieberman et al, 2003
  • Rozin & Fallon, 1987: attend class on Friday for info on most important aspects of this article
  • Haidt et al, 1997
• Office hours before the exam:
  • Thursday, 1/24, 10-11:30am
  • Friday, 1/25, after class 3-3:30pm
• Midterm scores will be posted by perm number on the website for those students who grant permission to do so. If you wish to have your scores posted, please sign the waiver in office hours or after class.