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Course Info for ANTH - 101 - 90, Summer 2026
Class number: 1004 Title: Intro to Cultural Anthropology Department: Anthropology
Career: Undergraduate Component: Lecture Session: Second Quarter
Instructor's Permission Required: No Grading Basis: Graded Units: 1.00
Enrollment limited to 29 Current enrollment: 15 Available seats: 14
Start date: Monday, June 22, 2026 End date: Friday, July 24, 2026 Mode of Instruction: Remote
Schedule: TR: 10:00AM-1:50PM, N/A Instructor(s): Conroe, Andrew
Prerequisite(s): None
Distribution Requirement: Meets Social Sciences and Global Requirements
Course Description:
Anthropology as a field asks what it means to be human: how do we know what is universal to human existence? What is natural and what is cultural? How can the strange become familiar and the familiar strange? This course introduces the theory and method of cultural anthropology as applied to case studies from different geographic and ethnographic areas. Topics to be considered include family and kinship, inequality and hierarchy, race and ethnicity, ritual and symbol systems, gender and sexuality, reciprocity and exchange, globalization and social change.