Lori E. Wright - Anthropology 626

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Lori E. Wright
Associate Professor

Email:	lwright@tamu.edu
Phone:	(979) 862-7665
Office:	316E Anthropology

Paleopathology Anthropology 626
Course Overview

Course Syllabus

Course Description:

This course is designed to acquaint the graduate student with the study of disease in the past. Emphasis will be placed on diagnostic criteria of bone pathology, the coevolution of humans with pathogens that affect bone, recent molecular approaches to paleodiagnosis, and the place of paleopathology within bioarchaeological research design.

Requirements:

Brief lectures and show slides about the pathology of the week, 10 weekly pathology quizzes, seminar discussions about assigned readings, frequent student presentations based on research articles, a research paper and a final exam

Texts:*

Aufderheide AC and Rodríguez-Martín C (1998) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Paleopathology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Possibly additional readings, in Evans Library.
Packet of readings in Room 316 for you to borrow and photocopy

Grades:

Your grade for this course will be determined by your scores on the following:. Weekly pathology quizzes, pathology description assignment, seminar readings presented in class , attendance & class participation , research paper,research seminar, final exam/

Grade scale: 100-90: A, 89-80: B, 79-70: C, 69-60: D, 59-0: F

Schedule:

Week	Topic
Week 1	Intro & bone histology review
	Description & diagnoses (lecture/lab)

Week 2	Diagnosis seminars
	Quiz; Trauma lecture

Week 3	Trauma seminars
	Quiz; Hemopoeitic & Metabolic

Week 4	Seminars
	Quiz; Infectious Disease: primarily blastic

Week 5	Periostitis seminars
	Treponematosis seminars

Week 6	Quiz; Infectious Disease: primarily lytic
	Infection seminars — Description papers due!

Week 7	Quiz; Degenerative & Spondyloarthropathy
	Arthritis seminars

Week 8	Quiz; Cancer
	Cancer seminars

Week
Week 9	No class (Dr. Wright is in Spain!)
	No class (Dr. Wright is in Spain!)

Week 10	Quiz; Endocrine, congenital & cultural practices
	Seminars - Research paper abstracts due!

Week 11	Quiz; Stress markers
	Stress seminars

Week 12	Quiz; Genetic seminars
	No class (Dr. Wright is at AAA)

Week 13	Quiz; Epidemiology
	Thanksgiving Holiday!

Week 14	The Osteological Paradox
	Presentations of research papers
	Final Exam

Week 15	Research papers due — no extensions !!