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Course Info for ANTH - 101 - 01, Spring 2024
Class number: 2200 Title: Intro to Cultural Anthropology Department: Anthropology
Career: Undergraduate Component: Lecture Session: Regular
Instructor's Permission Required: No Grading Basis: Regular Units: 1.00
Enrollment limited to 29 Current enrollment: 29 Available seats: 0
Start date: Monday, January 22, 2024 End date: Friday, May 10, 2024 Mode of Instruction: In Person
Schedule: MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM, AAC - 320 Instructor(s): Beebe, Rebecca
Prerequisite(s): None
Distribution Requirement: Meets Social Sciences and Global Requirements
Note: 12 seats reserved for first-years, 10 for sophomores, 4 for juniors, 3 for seniors.
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.