Throughout this advanced methods seminar, students will critically analyze past and current approaches to mixed methods research in anthropology, with a focus on biocultural anthropology. Students will interact with scholarly literature and other media and use seminar time to deliberate about what biocultural anthropology is, how to "do" biocultural anthropology, and how biocultural approaches or perspectives can be implemented. Students will learn about qualitative and quantitative methods and evaluate past scholarship in anthropology and related disciplines that attempt to cross boundaries between qualitative and quantitative.

Students will have opportunities to practice mixed methods approaches using methods exercises and study design practice. In addition, students will be expected to demonstrate application of biocultural methods by writing a research proposal that is biocultural and mixed methods focused. Themes will vary according to student interests and seminar composition.