ANTH 1023 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

Credits: 3
Hours/Week: Lecture 3Lab None
Course Description: This course examines the fundamental social processes that universally bind humans together and tear them apart: subsistence, language, kinship, reproduction, alliances, food production, economics, competition, warfare and death. The anthropological approach to these topics is to study human societies from around the world using the guiding concepts of culture and evolution.
MnTC Goals
5 History/Social/Behavioral Science, 8 Global Perspective

Prerequisite(s): Assessment score placement in RDNG 1000 or completion of RDNG 0900 or RDNG 0950 with a grade of C or higher.
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: None

Major Content

Introduction to Anthropology
Human Origins and Evolutionary Theory
Culture as Socially Transmitted Information
The Individual and Society
The History of Anthropology
Anthropological Theory
Patterns of Subsistence
Language
Kinship
Sex, Gender, Marriage, and the Division of Labor
Alliances, Competition, and Warfare
Cultural Contact

Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course students will be able to:

explain the anthropological concept of culture.
articulate their understanding of cultural evolution.
evaluate the effects of the developed world on indigenous populations.
describe patterns of human subsistence.
critically evaluate racist claims about human variation.
assess the empirical strength of various anthropological theories.

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ANTH 1023 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology