ANTH - Anthropology

ANTH201 Introduction to Biological Anthropology

Credits 4

Registration Requirement: RD090 and WR090, or IECC201R and IECC201W, each with a grade of "C" or higher; or placement above stated course levels.

Biological anthropology covers four areas: genetic variation, primate paleontology, human evolution and modern human variation. Emphasis is placed on the fossil record and the interactions between biology, environment and culture in the evolution of the hominoid and human species as well as current genetic, environmental and cultural factors in contemporary human populations.

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  1. Apply knowledge of human behavior and social phenomena to social and community issues.
  2. Discuss narrative of human evolution.
  3. Identify paleoanthropoligical methods, primatology and biological variation.
  4. Relate basic genetics, evolutionary theory and fossil hominid.

ANTH202 Introduction to Archaeology and World Prehistory (Cultural Literacy course)

Credits 4

Registration Requirement: RD090 and WR090, or IECC201R and IECC201W, each with a grade of "C" or higher; or placement above stated course levels.

This class is an introduction to the study of archaeology. Class topics include a brief introduction to archaeological methods and an overview of world prehistory from the mammoth hunters to the earliest civilization.

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  1. Describe the cultures of the Mesolithic.
  2. Describe the methods, goals, and concepts of archaeology.
  3. Examine the cultures of the Neolithic, the advent of agriculture, early civilization.
  4. Examine the cultures of the Upper Paleolithic.
  5. the peopling of the America.

ANTH203 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (Cultural Literacy course)

Credits 4

Registration Requirement: RD090 and WR090, or IECC201R and IECC201W, each with a grade of "C" or higher; or placement above stated course levels.

This class focuses on the anthropological concept of culture. Students learn how culture is studied while performing cross-cultural analyses of various aspects of culture such as religion, language, economy and technology. Emphasis is placed on understanding cultural differences.

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  1. Apply knowledge of human behavior and social phenomena to social and community issues.
  2. Describe and explain cross cultural similarities and differences concerning subsistence strategies, gender, family, technology and religion.
  3. Describe and explain the culture concept, culture change and anthropological linguistics.

ANTH240 Language and Culture (Cultural Literacy course)

Credits 4

Registration Requirement: RD090 and WR090, or IECC201R and IECC201W, each with a grade of "C" or higher; or placement above stated course levels.

This course provides answers to these provocative questions by exploring the anthropological disciplines of descriptive, historical and ethno linguistics: How does language work? Where is it in the brain? How do children acquire it? How does language affect thought and our perception of the world? How is our language different from that of other animals? How did human language evolve and develop throughout history?.

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  1. Apply knowledge of human behavior and social phenomena to social and community issues.
  2. Demonstrate knowledge of theories concerning the manner in which language affects thought and our perception of the world.
  3. Describe and define phone, phenome, morpheme, syntax and grammar.
  4. Describe knowledge of theories concerning the origins, evolution and historical developments of language throughout history.
  5. Describe the anatomy of human speech.
  6. Describe, define and identify idiolect, dialect, pidgin and Creole.
  7. Distinguish human vocal communication from that of other animals, especially primates.

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Cultural Literacy course