ANTH& 100: Survey of Anthropology

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Class Program
Anthropology
Credits
5
Clinical Hours None
Weekly Contact Hours
5
Course ID
091421
Meets Degree Requirements For
Diversity,
Social Science
Description

This course provides an introduction to the subfields of anthropology: biological anthropology, archaeology, anthropological linguistics, and sociocultural anthropology.  The class explores what it means to be human through a holistic approach, which examines the physical and social context of the human experience.

Grading Basis
Graded

Course Learning Outcomes

Program Learning Outcomes

  1. Identify and explain the complexity of biological and cultural diversity throughout time and across space.

    Problem Solving
    Critical Thinking,
    Qualitative Reasoning
    Communication
    Oral Expression,
    Written Expression
    Social Interaction
    Cultural Diversity
    Inquiry
    Information Literacy
    Level
    Beginner
Program Learning Outcomes

  1. Identify and explain the complexity of biological and cultural diversity throughout time and across space.

    Problem Solving
    Critical Thinking,
    Qualitative Reasoning
    Communication
    Oral Expression,
    Written Expression
    Social Interaction
    Cultural Diversity
    Inquiry
    Information Literacy
    Level
    Beginner

  2. Demonstrate a holistic, comparative, and biocultural understanding of human diversity.

    Problem Solving
    Critical Thinking,
    Quantitative Reasoning
    Communication
    Oral Expression,
    Written Expression
    Social Interaction
    Cultural Diversity
    Inquiry
    Information Literacy,
    Documentation
    Level
    Beginner
Program Learning Outcomes

  1. Demonstrate a holistic, comparative, and biocultural understanding of human diversity.

    Problem Solving
    Critical Thinking,
    Quantitative Reasoning
    Communication
    Oral Expression,
    Written Expression
    Social Interaction
    Cultural Diversity
    Inquiry
    Information Literacy,
    Documentation
    Level
    Beginner

  2. Identify and evaluate historical and contemporary schools of anthropological thought.

    Problem Solving
    Critical Thinking,
    Quantitative Reasoning
    Communication
    Oral Expression,
    Written Expression
    Social Interaction
    Cultural Diversity
    Inquiry
    Information Literacy
    Level
    Beginner
Program Learning Outcomes

  1. Identify and explain the complexity of biological and cultural diversity throughout time and across space.

    Problem Solving
    Critical Thinking,
    Qualitative Reasoning
    Communication
    Oral Expression,
    Written Expression
    Social Interaction
    Cultural Diversity
    Inquiry
    Information Literacy
    Level
    Beginner

  2. Demonstrate a holistic, comparative, and biocultural understanding of human diversity.

    Problem Solving
    Critical Thinking,
    Quantitative Reasoning
    Communication
    Oral Expression,
    Written Expression
    Social Interaction
    Cultural Diversity
    Inquiry
    Information Literacy,
    Documentation
    Level
    Beginner
Program Learning Outcomes

  1. Identify and explain the complexity of biological and cultural diversity throughout time and across space.

    Problem Solving
    Critical Thinking,
    Qualitative Reasoning
    Communication
    Oral Expression,
    Written Expression
    Social Interaction
    Cultural Diversity
    Inquiry
    Information Literacy
    Level
    Beginner

  2. Demonstrate a holistic, comparative, and biocultural understanding of human diversity.

    Problem Solving
    Critical Thinking,
    Quantitative Reasoning
    Communication
    Oral Expression,
    Written Expression
    Social Interaction
    Cultural Diversity
    Inquiry
    Information Literacy,
    Documentation
    Level
    Beginner
Program Learning Outcomes

  1. Identify the role that anthropology has played in creating, maintaining, or dispelling out ideas about the human condition in popular and scientific domains.

    Problem Solving
    Critical Thinking,
    Quantitative Reasoning,
    Qualitative Reasoning
    Communication
    Oral Expression,
    Written Expression
    Social Interaction
    Cultural Diversity
    Inquiry
    Information Literacy,
    Research,
    Documentation
    Level
    Beginner

  2. Identify and evaluate historical and contemporary schools of anthropological thought.

    Problem Solving
    Critical Thinking,
    Quantitative Reasoning
    Communication
    Oral Expression,
    Written Expression
    Social Interaction
    Cultural Diversity
    Inquiry
    Information Literacy
    Level
    Beginner
Program Learning Outcomes

  1. Identify the role that anthropology has played in creating, maintaining, or dispelling out ideas about the human condition in popular and scientific domains.

    Problem Solving
    Critical Thinking,
    Quantitative Reasoning,
    Qualitative Reasoning
    Communication
    Oral Expression,
    Written Expression
    Social Interaction
    Cultural Diversity
    Inquiry
    Information Literacy,
    Research,
    Documentation
    Level
    Beginner
Program Learning Outcomes

  1. Develop basic knowledge of data collection methods and analytic techniques in anthropological research.

    Problem Solving
    Quantitative Reasoning,
    Qualitative Reasoning
    Communication
    Written Expression
    Social Interaction
    Cultural Diversity
    Inquiry
    Information Literacy,
    Research,
    Documentation
    Level
    Beginner

Core Topics

  1. Ethnocentrism and cultural relativism as it pertains to understanding contemporary cultural diversity.
  2. Ethnographic research is the cornerstone of anthropology.
  3. Evolutionary theory, science, and the scientific method.
  4. The living non-human primates.
  5. The primate and hominin record over the past 65 million years.
  6. Basics of archaeological research.
  7. Human cultural evolution and the archaeological record.
  8. Human variation and how race is culturally constructed
  9. Linguistics: structural, historical, social, and ethnolinguistics.
  10. Subsistence as the core of culture.
  11. Political-economic lives.
  12. Kinship, marriage, sex, and gender.
  13. Religion and worldview.
  14. Race and ethnicity.