ANTH 1101 - Introduction to American Culture
3 Credits
Explores the cultural diversity that comprises the current American population and the issues that drive Americans today. This course provides an introduction to American culture with emphasis on those who have arrived in the past 200 years including their transitions, mobility, and interchange. Classroom discussions, lectures and activities will focus on the effects of each succeeding immigrant group on American culture through the operation of American dominant culture, worldview, and institutions; with focus primarily on the role of the individual and consumerism within American society.
Major Content Areas
Defining Anthropology: Cultural Anthropology, Physical Anthropology, & ArchaeologyDefining Culture, types of culture, forms of culture. American Dominant Culture: Individualism and Super Consumerism. American Institutions; Economic, Government, Family, Religion, Education. Multiculturalism, assimilation, social construction of race, gender, identity and linguistic diversity. Belonging, exclusion, types of citizenship The role of the United States of America in the world of today
Learning Outcomes
Articulate the variety of American cultures, including those groups that have suffered discrimination and exclusion. Describe and discuss American dominant culture. Articulate examples of unequal power structures within American society as well as anti-hegemonic forms of resistance. Articulate cultural, social, religious and linguistic differences among the variety of American peoples. Develop and articulate person opinions of what role the United States of America should play in world affairs including the role of world citizen. Describe anthropological perspectives on the social construction of race and how race and ethnicity are used to empower some and disadvantage others.
Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MNTC) Goals
08 - Global Perspective 7A - Human Diversity
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