ANTH 1110 - Cultural Anthropology
3 Credits
Introduces students to the anthropological subfield focused on human culture. Culture is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by individuals as a member of society. Examines the tension between the claim that culture can be both universal as well as particular. This class offers a broad survey allowing for this comparison of universals and particulars around the world, including larger concepts of identity, cultural manifestation, operation of institutions, and issues of inequality and globalization.
Major Content Areas
Defining Anthropology, its methods, ethics, communication and subfields.
What is culture vs. ethnicity and race.
The manifestation of culture and the operation of Institutions: Economics, Politics, Family, Religion, Education, the Arts.
The Modern World System: Colonialism, Cultural Development and Survival.
Role of the Anthropologist today.
Learning Outcomes
Define the culture concept.
Critically analyze various cultures from a culturally relativistic perspective.
Describe ways that culture and nature shape human institutions.
Articulate the relationships between human agency and structure.
Critically analyze the effects of colonialism and globalization.
Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MNTC) Goals
05 - Hist/Soc/Behav Sci
08 - Global Perspective
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