This course is offered online and it is recommended you complete a short self-assessment to ensure readiness before taking an online course.
This course explores how anthropologists study and compare human culture. Cultural anthropologists seek to understand the broad arc of human experience focusing on a set of central issues: how people around the world make their living (subsistence patterns); how they organize themselves socially, politically and economically; how they communicate; how they relate to each other through family and kinship ties; what they believe about the world (belief systems); how they express themselves creatively (expressive culture); how they make distinctions among themselves such as through applying gender, racial and ethnic identity labels; how they have shaped and been shaped by social inequalities such as colonialism; and how they navigate culture change and processes of globalization that affect us all. Ethnographic case studies highlight these similarities and differences, and introduce students to how anthropologists do their work, employ professional anthropological research ethics and apply their perspectives and skills to understand humans around the globe.
- Lecture hours/semester: 48-54
- Homework hours/semester: 96-108
Textbook: View textbook in Bookstore
Instructor:
Michele Titus, titusm@smccd.edu
IGETC: 4A-Anthropology - CSM
Section Information as of Wednesday, May 1 2024 - 02:03:22 am
Course status: Closed
InstructorSection | Meeting Date | Meeting Time | Days | Building | Room | Section | Section Description |
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Instructor: Michele Titus | 01/16-05/24 | Online course | 0000 | OLH | Online |
Critical Dates for this Course | Date |
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Last day to add class | January 29, 2024 |
Last day to drop with a refund | January 29, 2024 |
Last day to drop without a "W" | February 4, 2024 |
Last day to drop with a "W" | April 25, 2024 |
Last day to change to Pass/No Pass Grading Option | May 24, 2024 |