Anthropology
Traditionally divided among the four subdisciplines of cultural anthropology, biological anthropology, linguistic anthropology and archaeology, the discipline seeks to holistically examine the human experience in all times and places.
Anthropology 101-Cultural and Social Anthropology
A cross-cultural approach to the nature of culture as humanity’s means of existence, focusing on such topics as the method of scientific research in cultural anthropology, the basis of language, subsistence, exchange, gender, race and ethnicity, a comparative study of events of the human life cycle, family and kinship, religion and ritual, and theories of social change and development. 3 credits. Fulfills category C.
Anthropology 102-Human Evolution
This course applies Darwinian evolutionary theory to an examination of the position of the human species within the animal kingdom, the characteristics of primates, the evolutionary origins of human behavioral patterns, the fossil record of human evolution, the study of race, and continuing human evolution. 3 credits. Fulfills category C.
Anthropology 103-Archaeology and Prehistory
This course investigates the contribution made by
archaeological science to an understanding of the
process by which human society evolved from earliest
forms to the emergence of complex civilizations in
various parts of the world prior to historical times.
3 credits. Fulfills category C.
Anthropology 220-Native North Americans
This course is an analysis of Native American cultures north of Mexico from early times to the modern era. Ecological, historic and ethnographic data are utilized to review the various cultural areas. The southwest, plains, northwest, southeast and northeast cultures. 3 credits.