ANTH& 206 Cultural Anthropology (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Social Sciences; General Transfer Elective
Formerly ANTHR 220-CCN
Course Description
We examine human behavior and belief across cultures. We learn how anthropologists work; how culture is created; how and why economic, social, and political systems differ across cultures; and the impacts of colonialism and globalization.
Course Content
A. Concept of culture: what it is and how it works
B. Ethnocentrism, cultural relativism, and extreme relativism
C. Ethnographic research methods, field techniques, and ethics
D. Cross-cultural exploration of subsistence and economic systems
E. Cross-cultural exploration of gender as a social construct
F. Cross-cultural exploration of social stratification and power relations
G. Cross-cultural exploration of family, marriage, kinship systems, and descent
H. Cross-cultural exploration of religion / worldview
I. Impacts of colonialism, modernization, and globalization
Student Outcomes
1. Explain how cultural anthropology fits into the overall discipline of anthropology.
2. Explain what culture is, how it is acquired, and how it works.
3. Distinguish and illustrate the concepts of ethnocentrism, cultural relativism, and extreme relativism.
4. Apply an ethnographic perspective to compare and discuss subsistence and economic systems across cultures.
5. Apply an ethnographic perspective to compare and discuss marriage, family, kinship systems, and descent across cultures.
6. Apply an ethnographic perspective to compare and discuss political systems and social control across cultures.
7. Apply an ethnographic perspective to compare and discuss social differentiation across cultures.
8. Explain and illustrate religion / worldview from an anthropological perspective.
9. Identify and discuss the impacts of and responses to colonialism, modernization, and globalization.
10. Discuss global citizenship and contemporary issues from an anthropological perspective.
Degree Outcomes
Social Sciences: Graduates analyze and interpret social phenomenon using social science theories and methods.
Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.
Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
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