If you complete this course and do well, you will be able to:
- Critical Thinking
- Describe the connection between culture, society, and individuals.
- Communication
- Demonstrate the ability to develop, convey, and exchange ideas in writing to a given anthropological concept.
- Cultural and Social Understanding
- Define and critique ethnocentrism.
- Identify cross-cultural differences in various means of communication.
- Summarize the impact of global markets on local communities.
- Information Literacy
- Analyze why globalization disrupts and reorganizes cultures all across the globe, with both positive and negative consequences.
- Explain quantitative and qualitative methods in the analysis of anthropological research.
- Theory and Application
- Identify principles, practices and ethics of anthropological research and methodology.
- Characteristics of Culture
- Identify characteristics common to all cultures.
- Explain how cultures are learned and transmitted.
- Identify material and non-material culture.
- Describe relationships between the physical environment and aspects of culture.
- Language and Communication
- Explain the emergence of language, speech, and writing.
- Social Institutions
- Contrast family and household forms across cultures.
- Articulate how religion is related to other parts of a cultural system.
- Compare political and economic systems.
- Social Change
- Identify the key mechanisms of cultural change.