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COURSE SYLLABUS
1. TITLE OF COURSE: Cultural Anthropology
PREFIX/NUMBER: ANT 101 CREDIT HOURS: 3
2. PREREQUISITE: REA 090 or permission of the instructor
3. RESOURCES NEEDED:
TEXT: TBA
SUPPLIES:
4. COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Studies human cultural patterns and learned behavior. Includes linguistics, social and political organization, religion, culture and personality, culture change, and applied anthropology.
This course is one of the Statewide Guaranteed Transfer courses. GT-SS3
5. COURSE OBJECTIVES:
I. Define and discuss the methods of research and investigation utilized by anthropology, both scientific and humanistic.
II. Discuss the history, purpose, branches, and features of anthropology as well as its relation and relative position within the general framework of academic disciplines.
III. Identify and explain the procedures used by anthropologists to study world cultures, especially field and comparative methods.
IV. Discuss the qualities, both specific and universal, of culture and some of the important anthropological theories formulated to explain its formation and development.
V. Do a comparison/contrast study between two distinct cultures with regard to any cultural facet.
VI. Discuss some of the academic and applied goals of the field, and especially with regard to the promotion of intercultural tolerance and understanding.
VII. Discuss the field of linguistics and its important contributions concerning the foundations of human language (historical linguistics) its features (descriptive linguistics) and its intrinsic relationship to culture.
VIII. Define and discuss some of the important cross-cultural systems developed by human groups to reckon kinship and descent, and social affiliation.
IX. Compare and contrast a given number of cross-cultural systems of familial descent.
X. List and describe some of the strategies developed by different world cultures for the establishment of marriage, divorce, and residence.
XI. List and discuss some of the non-kinship systems of establishing human relations and association such as age, gender, and status.
XII. Discuss some of the institutions developed by humans for the purpose of organization and problem resolution.
XIII. Describe some of the methods used now in the past by humans for the purpose of food acquisition and other material comforts.
XIV. Discuss the universal nature and purpose of law and some of the cross-cultural strategies developed to impose legal rules of conduct.
XV. Discuss some of the important anthropological ideas regarding the origins, causes, and effects of war.
XVI. Define some of the cross-cultural patterns of political organization and explain how they may relate to particular circumstances.
XVII. Define and discuss the cultural institutions developed by humans to explain origins, causes, and events as well as express ethical, moral and esthetic values.
XVIII. Discuss some of the anthropological theories regarding the origins and development of religion and magic, as well as their mythical, ritualistic and dogmatic aspects.
XIX. Explain the existence of folklore as a human cultural universal, its purpose with regard to mythological, epic, and historical events, and its value both as instruction and entertainment.
XX. Discuss the culturally specific and universal aspects of human values and their formation as a part of human conduct and attitudes.
XXI. Demonstrate the ability to select and apply contemporary forms of technology to solve problems or compile information.
XXII. Write and speak clearly and logically in presentations and essays.
6. COURSE OUTLINE:
I. Introduction and Methodology
A. Field of Anthropology
B. Ethnographic Methods
C. The Nature of Culture
D. Goals of Cultural Anthropology
II. Linguistics
A. Historical Linguistics
B. Descriptive Linguistics
C. Language and Culture
III. Kinship and Social Organization
A. Descent Systems
B. Marriage Systems
C. Residence Patterns
D. Non-kin Groups
IV. Political and Economic Organizations
A. Subsistence Patterns
B. Law and Social Control
C. War and Conflict
D. Political Structures
V. Belief Systems
A. Religion
B. Magic
C. Folklore
D. Values
E. Arts
VI. Culture and Personality
A. Enculturation
B. Cognition and Perception
C. Symbolic Anthropology
VII. Culture Change
A. Acculturation
B. Cultural Evolution
C. Processes of Change
VIII. Applied Anthropology
A. Ethics
B. Consequences of Modernization
C. Careers in Anthropology
D. Anthropology’s Contribution to Society
7. METHODS OF INSTRUCTION:
To be successful in this course, students are expected to participate in discussions, readings, in-class writing, and peer review activities. The instructor may assign point values to such activities.
8. ACADEMIC INTEGRITY:
The very nature of higher education requires that students adhere to accepted standards of academic integrity. Therefore, Pueblo Community College has adopted a policy of academic conduct as described in the Student Handbook. Violation of academic integrity may be defined to include the following: cheating, plagiarism, falsification and fabrication, abuse of academic materials, complicity in academic dishonesty, and personal misrepresentation. It is the student’s responsibility to be aware of the behaviors that constitute academic dishonesty. Sanctions for violating the standards of academic integrity may include warning, probation, suspension, and/or failure of the course or assignment at the discretion of the instructor.
9. ADA NOTICE:
Students who have a documented disability may be eligible to receive accommodations for this class. Please contact the Disability Resources Center at 549-3446 for further information. |