MSCI-265C The Human Body: Anatomy, Variation, Adaptation

3 Credits

The human body is an exquisite formation that structures our movements, abilities, and identities. Careful observation, description and analysis of human anatomy can inform an understanding of the most intimate and personal of our experiences as well as fostering a deeper understanding of what it means to be a human animal. By engaging with data as well as using direct observational skills, including analytical drawing of forms from life, reference and animal dissections (non-human), students will work to define both the consistent and the variable in human anatomy, physiology, and genetics. By developing an understanding of the range of variation that characterizes our species at the level of the individual, the population, and the species as a whole, students will be challenged to break away from a categorical understanding of variation to recognize continuous ranges of variation.