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Apr 16, 2024
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ANTH& 206 - Cultural Anthropology:CD
5.0 Credits
An introduction to the nature of culture as a set of rules for the shared, learned, and patterned forms of behavior found in each society. Emphasis on theoretical orientation, cultural adaptation and integration, social organization, and cultural variation.
Course-level Learning Objectives (CLOs)
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Define anthropology and culture.
- Distinguish cultural anthropology from archaeology, linguistic anthropology, archaeology, and other social and natural sciences.
- Conduct participant observation and service-learning projects with local community partners.
- Explain the value of participant observation and service learning as research tools in cultural anthropology.
- Reflect orally and in writing on the value of service as a means of making a difference in a community.
- Identify the crucial role of culture and evolution in the sustainability of human-ecosystem interactions.
- Explain how societies are interrelated and the increasing impact of globalization on human lives and cultures.
- Define ethnocentrism and cultural relativism.
- Recognize and describe key features of human cultures and society: adaptation, language, family, kinship, ethnicity, religion, socialization, politics, economics, gender, etc.
- Identify ways that cultural anthropological research methods, knowledge and skills can be applied to the solution of contemporary world problems.
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