PARTICULARITIES OF THE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM ‘ANTHROPOLOGY’ FOR STUDENTS OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY

Abstract

This review gives details of the educational program ‘Anthropology’ taught to students of clinical psychology. The program is aimed at providing information on morphological and social evolution of humans, age- and constitution-related anthropology, anthropogenesis. It informs students on the species relatedness of humans using morphological, physiological and genetic data. It also gives comparative analysis of physical (biological), social and cultural characteristics of individuals. The course on anthropology is a part ‘Mathematic and natural science’ course, so its contents are mostly related to biological anthropology, covering such areas as paleo-anthopological findings, evolution of homo species, individual, age- and constitution-related characteristics of humans, as well as racial and ethnic (biological) differences between human populations. It also touches on the topic of evolution of brain and consciousness, explicating existent theories. The last part of the course is devoted to cultural and linguistic diversity of humans, mythical, religious and social dimensions of human life.