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| CATALOG INFORMATION
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| Discipline and Nbr:
ANTHRO 2 | Title:
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY |
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| Full Title:
Cultural Anthropology |
| Last Reviewed:4/25/2022 |
| Units | Course Hours per Week | | Nbr of Weeks | Course Hours Total |
| Maximum | 3.00 | Lecture Scheduled | 3.00 | 17.5 max. | Lecture Scheduled | 52.50 |
| Minimum | 3.00 | Lab Scheduled | 0 | 3 min. | Lab Scheduled | 0 |
| | Contact DHR | 0 | | Contact DHR | 0 |
| | Contact Total | 3.00 | | Contact Total | 52.50 |
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| | Non-contact DHR | 0 | | Non-contact DHR Total | 0 |
| | Total Out of Class Hours: 105.00 | Total Student Learning Hours: 157.50 | |
Title 5 Category:
AA Degree Applicable
Grading:
Grade or P/NP
Repeatability:
00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
Also Listed As:
Formerly:
Catalog Description:
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Exploration of human cultural diversity and interrelationships on a global scale. Comparative analysis of traditions such as kinship, childrearing, religion, magic, political systems, relationship to nature, and language.
Prerequisites/Corequisites:
Recommended Preparation:
Eligibility for ENGL 100 or ESL 100.
Limits on Enrollment:
Schedule of Classes Information
Description:
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Exploration of human cultural diversity and interrelationships on a global scale. Comparative analysis of traditions such as kinship, childrearing, religion, magic, political systems, relationship to nature, and language.
(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:
Recommended:Eligibility for ENGL 100 or ESL 100.
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:CSU;UC.
Repeatability:00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION
| Associate Degree: | Effective: | Fall 1981
| Inactive: | |
| Area: | D
H
| Social and Behavioral Sciences
Global Perspective and Environmental Literacy
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| CSU GE: | Transfer Area | | Effective: | Inactive: |
| | D | Social Science | Fall 1981 | |
| | D1 | Anthropology and Archeology | | |
| | D5 | Geography | | |
| | D6 | History | | |
| | D7 | Interdisc Social or Behavioral Science | | |
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| IGETC: | Transfer Area | | Effective: | Inactive: |
| | 4 | Social and Behavioral Science | Fall 1981 | |
| | 4A | Anthropology and Archeology | | |
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| CSU Transfer: | Transferable | Effective: | Fall 1981 | Inactive: | |
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| UC Transfer: | Transferable | Effective: | Fall 1981 | Inactive: | |
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| C-ID: |
| CID Descriptor: ANTH 120 | Introduction to Cultural Anthropology | SRJC Equivalent Course(s): ANTH2 |
Certificate/Major Applicable:
Major Applicable Course
COURSE CONTENT
Outcomes and Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:
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Students completing this course will be able to:
1. Identify and analyze patterns of diversity (uniqueness) and global
culture (interconnected or interrelated patterns of culture).
2. Comprehend and apply the concepts of cultural relativity,
ethnocentrism, culture, modernism, post-modernism, and globalization.
3. Evaluate varying human responses to similar social and environmental
challenges.
4. Apply introductory terms and concepts used in contemporary
ethnographic description.
5. Locate and contrast a broad range of cultures presented in
readings and class sessions
6. Synthesize and critique various field methods and theories regarding
the study of culture today and in the past.
7. Classify and analyze the confrontation and/or convergence of local
and global culture patterns in recent contexts.
Topics and Scope
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To be explored in local, regional, and global (or interconnected)
contexts.
1. The concept of culture in local and global use today.
2. Variations in collecting and analyzing cultural data (ethnography and
ethnology).
3. Language and communication in individual and global cultural contexts.
4. Human relationships with nature; subsistence; and patterns of
environmental balance.
5. Economic exchange in various cultural and global settings.
6. Kinship, marriage, and the family.
7. Childrearing and its relationship to personality in regional and
global settings.
8. Religion and magic as forces of human unification and/or conflict.
9. Culture change and the future of globalization in anthropological
perspective.
Assignments:
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Students enrolled in this class will complete written assignments that
involve either classic term paper research or data collection and analysis
in a local or field population. All textbooks will be read as homework.
Map tests and film response papers may be assigned at preference of the
instructor.
Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.
| Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing. | Writing
30 - 40% |
| Term papers, FIELD STUDY OR BOOK REVIEWS | |
| Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills. | Problem Solving
0 - 0% |
| None | |
| Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams. | Skill Demonstrations
0 - 0% |
| None | |
| Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams. | Exams
60 - 70% |
| Multiple choice, True/false, Matching items | |
| Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories. | Other Category
0 - 0% |
| None | |
Representative Textbooks and Materials:
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Haviland, Wm. A
2001 Cultural Anthropology, 10th edition. New York: Harcourt Brace.
Kottack, Conrad Phillip
2000 Cultural Anthropology, 8th edition. Boston: McGraw Hill.
Ember and Ember
1999 Cultural Anthropology, 9th edition. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
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