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SOC258

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Cultural Anthropology

Social SciencesSchool of Legal Studies & Social Services

Learning Objectives

Course Objective

Program Objective and/or
Collegewide Student Competency

1.      Define and describe the basic subject matter of anthropology and the subdisciplines: cultural, physical, linguistic, and archeological anthropology.

 

2.      Explore how anthropology can use its cross-cultural perspective to explain phenomena in the modern technological world.

 

3.      Discuss the social patterns of traditional societies and relate the phenomena to main theories of anthropology.

 

4.      Define and integrate anthropological concepts such as language, subsistence patterns, economic systems, family and kinship relationships, social control, religion, and leisure.