Anthropology
ANT 101 INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY (3)
21 lessons, final
This course introduces the student to the study of human cultures, past and present. It offers a comprhensive introduction to anthropology, emphasizing the concepts and methods of the major sub-fields, i.e., cultural, biological, archaeology, and linguistics.
Tuition: $931
Ember, Carol R., Melvin Ember, and Peter Peregrine. Anthropology,11th Edition. Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, NJ. 2005. ISBN 0131849751
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ANT 160 CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN THE MODERN WORLD (3)
19 lessons, final
Directed at non-majors, this course is intended to introduce the student to the diversity of human cultural experience in the contemporary world. Goals of the course include gaining an appreciation for the common humanity and uniqueness of all cultures; to gain a sensitivity towards stereotypes and ethnocentrism, and to understand the distinctions between "race", ethnicity and racism. The course features extended descriptions of the cultural dynamics of the culture(s) with which the instructor has worked. (E-mail option available.)
Tuition: $931
Cavalli-Sforza, Luigi Lucas and Francesco Cavalli-Sforza The Great Human Diaspora: The History of Diversity and Evolution. Perseus Books, Cambridge, MA. 1996.
Stockard, Janice E., Marriage in Culture: Practice and Meaning Across Diverse Societies. Harcourt College Publishers, NY. 2002
Maybury-Lewis, David, Indigenous Peoples, Ethnic Groups, and the State. 2nd ed., Allyn & Bacon, Boston, MA. 2002
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ANT 221 NATIVE PEOPLE OF NORTH AMERICA (3)
32 lessons, final
A survey of the aboriginal Indian cultures of North America, and of the impact of four centuries of British, French, Spanish, and Russian contact on the Indian communities. The course will include consideration of the status of Indians in present-day North America. (E-mail option available.)
Tuition: $931
Oswalt, Wendell H., and Sharlotte Neely. This Land Was Theirs: A Study Of North American Indians. 7th ed., Mayfield Publishing Co., Mountain View, CA, 2002.
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