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Dec 08, 2024
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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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