SOC208 — Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
3 Credit(s) This course is designed to be a holistic overview of the cultural anthropological perspective which will describe in the broadest possible sense what it means to be human. The emphasis will be on culture, sets of learned behavior and ideas that human beings acquire as members of a society and use to adapt to and to transform the world in which we live. Topics to be covered at the introductory level will include: the anthropological perspective; culture and the human condition; ethnographic fieldwork; history, anthropology, and the explanation of cultural diversity; language; cognition; play, art, myth and ritual; worldview; kinship; marriage and the family; relationships beyond kinship; social organization and power; subsistence or making a living; the world system; and anthropology in everyday life.
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- Agriculture Business Transfer Major
- Agriculture Education Transfer Major
- Agronomy Transfer Major
- Animal Science Transfer Major
- Associate of Arts
- Associate of Science
- Biology Transfer Major
- Business Transfer Major
- Criminal Justice Transfer Major
- Digital Media Transfer Major
- Elementary Education Transfer Major
- English Transfer Major
- Exercise Science and Kinesiology Transfer Major
- History Transfer Major
- Human and Family Services Transfer Major
- Journalism Transfer Major
- Psychology Transfer Major
- Secondary Education Transfer Major
- Social Work Transfer Major
- Sociology Transfer Major