Equivalency Details

This course explores human culture worldwide, including cultural elements and systems, diversity and cross-cultural interactions, and cultural change. It covers concepts essential to the discipline of cultural anthropology, such as holism, fieldwork, and environmental adaptation. Course topics include worldview, domestic groups, kinship, gender, power structures, economics, religion, and artistic expression.

The course deals with the origin, diversification, and evolution of humans and their cultures from extinct primitive systems to modern industrial civilizations. Students will be exposed to the major sub-fields of anthropology: physical anthropology, archaeology, linguistics and cultural anthropology. A primary focus will be the biological and cultural processes that made human beings unique among living organisms. This course meets the General Education competency of Values, Ethics, and Diverse Perspectives (VE).