ANTH 261Primate Behaviour
- Faculty
- Arts
- Offered
- Winter
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1994–95
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1972–73 to 1994–95; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
An introduction to the behaviour of non-human primates and its relevance to human development. Topics will include social organization, role behaviour, and communications patterns, as well as the history of primate studies.
As printed in the 1983–84 to 1994–95 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original. Later calendars (1995–96 on) aren’t on uwloo.
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Discussed on r/uwaterloo
3 posts and comments in 2 threads mention ANTH 261, January 2016 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.
Fall 2017
PSA: UWCourseLinker back up, disabled by default, call with [[course code]] 39 points, 31 comments
u/RayDWatson: “Testing all course codes 1/61: [[ACC604]] [[ACC605]] [[ACC606]] [[ACC607]] [[ACC608]] [[ACC609]] [[ACC610]] [[ACC611]] [[ACC620]] [[ACC621]] [[ACC622]] [[ACC623]] [[ACC624]] [[ACC625]] [[ACC626]] …”
u/RayDWatson: “… [[ANTH222]] [[ANTH229]] [[ANTH230]] [[ANTH233]] [[ANTH241]] [[ANTH245]] [[ANTH260]] [[ANTH261]] [[ANTH272]] [[ANTH289]] [[ANTH290]] [[ANTH300]] [[ANTH302]] [[ANTH303]] [[ANTH305]] [[ANTH309]] [[ANTH311]] [[ANTH320]] [[ANTH321]] [[ANTH322]] [[ANTH330]] [[ANTH335]] [[ANTH345]] …”
u/UWCourseLinker: “… ANTH 241 - Food as Culture ANTH 245 - Anthropology of Education ANTH 260 - Human Evolution ANTH 261 - Primate Behaviour ANTH 272 - Issues in Contemporary Native Communities in Canada ANTH 289 - Special Topics in Anthropology ANTH 290 - Visual Anthropology ANTH 300 - Practicing …”
Winter 2016
Recommend an easy and interesting social sciences elective 0 points, 10 comments
“2B CS student here. I'm looking for an interesting course that will also help my grades and fulfill the breadth requirement. …”
[deleted]: “… ANTH 261: Primate Behavior Really stands out as interesting to me. Unfortunately if you only want to take one course, I wouldn't recommend Psych and Soc, SMF, or WS (not that I'd ever recommend WS..) because they pretty much all require <>101 to take anything interesting. …”
Check it elsewhere
- Undergraduate Calendar, 1995–96If it ran past 1994–95, on ucalendar
- Course outlinesSyllabi from past terms (UW login)
- UW FlowStudent ratings and reviews
- WClassesPast sections back to 2004, and who taught them
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1972–73 to 1994–95, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1983–84 to 1994–95 12 calendars
An introduction to the behaviour of non-human primates and its relevance to human development. Topics will include social organization, role behaviour, and communications patterns, as well as the history of primate studies.
Offered Winter · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
- 1983–84 PDF p. 278
- 1984–85 PDF p. 280
- 1985–86 PDF p. 289
- 1986–87 PDF p. 292
- 1987–88 PDF p. 302
- 1988–89* PDF p. 301
- 1989–90 PDF p. 316
- 1990–91 PDF p. 318
- 1991–92 PDF p. 325
- 1992–93* PDF p. 323
- 1993–94 PDF p. 324
- 1994–95* PDF p. 327
* Listed that year without a description, or as not offered.
1972–73 to 1982–83 10 calendars
An introduction to the behaviour of the non-human primates with emphasis on relevance to the origin of man. Topics will include sexual behaviour, mating systems, aggression, territoriality, and communication.
Offered Winter · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
- 1972–73 PDF p. 530
- 1974–75 PDF p. 663
- 1975–76 PDF p. 459
- 1976–77* PDF p. 400
- 1977–78 PDF p. 218
- 1978–79 PDF p. 219
- 1979–80 PDF p. 229
- 1980–81 PDF p. 242
- 1981–82* PDF p. 252
- 1982–83* PDF p. 261
* Listed that year without a description, or as not offered.