SS-111 Cultural Anthropology

Course Description:
The course is aimed at studying different patterns of life, through human adaptations to their environments. The students in the course will familiarize themselves with the different individual groups and their societies. The students will compare and contrast the cultures studied to their own. The concept to be aware of is that cultures are different but there is no one culture superior than another. The students will also relate how cultural anthropology is related to other sciences.

Prerequisite Courses: EN110

A. PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES (PLOs):
The student will be able to:

Demonstrate a fundamental knowledge of world geography.
Demonstrate knowledge of the major cultural issues of a person's own culture as well as other cultures.
Demonstrate knowledge of major historical events affecting one's culture and other cultures.
Demonstrate familiarity with contemporary global issues.
Demonstrate an understanding of major ethical concerns.

B. STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES (SLOs) – GENERAL:
The student will be able to:

The student will discuss the general overview of cultural anthropology and its relationship to other disciplines
The student will define the nature of culture in terms of its components and how it has evolved, and compare similarities in cultures studied
The student will describe the formation and functions of social, political, and religious groups in different societies
The student will be able to discuss the causes of change in cultures, languages, customs, and religion using the holistic perspective.

SLO	SLO 1	SLO 2	SLO 3	SLO 4	SLO 5
1		I, D		I	D
2		I, D	I, D	I, D	D
3	I	I, D	I, D	I, D
4	I, D	I	I, D	I, D
5		I, D	D	I, D	D

C. STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES (SLOS) – SPECIFIC:
The student will be able to:

General SLO 1: The students will discuss the general overview cultural anthropology and its relationship to other disciplines.

Student Learning Outcomes	Assessment Strategies
1.1 Define anthropology, describe how anthropology is related to other social sciences	Group discussion-students will be tasked to explain how they know anthropology through discussions and presentation.
1.2 Explain the importance of research and ethics in anthropology	Quiz
1.3 Explain how anthropology is important to everyday life.	Quiz
1.4 Explain the challenges anthropologists face in the studies	Test

General SLO 2: The student will define the nature of culture in terms of its components and how it has evolved, and compare similarities in cultures studied.

Student Learning Outcomes	Assessment Strategies
2.1 Define culture and identify concepts of culture and ethical issues that underlie studying culture	Quiz
2.2 List and describe the different aspects of cultures. Compare and contrast traditional and western cultures	Group assignment/discussion-students will do an assignment on assigned culture to compare and contrast culture to their own culture.
2.3 Define evolution and describe how man is related to other apes by means of culture	Quiz
2.4 Discuss the significant roles of both verbal and nonverbal language as part of culture	Quiz
2.5 Discuss how culture influences personality development	Quiz
2.6 Identify the different patterns of subsistence and adaptation	Test
2.7 Describe the distribution and exchange of resources in different societies	Test

General SLO 3: The student will describe the formation and functions of social, political, and religious groups in different societies.

Student Learning Outcomes	Assessment Strategies
3.1 Discuss the types of marriage and their cultural and social functions	Assignment/class work-students will do an assignment on assigned culture to do this.
3.2 Identify types of families, their functions and why they change over time	Quiz
3.3 List and explain the principles used in kinship, clan and marriage that are used to organize people within societies	Quiz
3.5 Identify and the common-interest associations and their roles in society	Quiz
3.6 Explain the functions of political organizations and their means of social control	Assignment/class work-students will do an assignment on assigned culture to do this.
3.7 Explain the relationship between science and religion and their functions	Test

General SLO 4: The student will be able to discuss the causes and consequences of change in cultures, languages, customs, and religion using the holistic perspective.

Student Learning Outcomes	Assessment Strategies
4.1 Explain what cause social movements to occur in society	Group presentation-students will conduct research and present their findings as a group to do this. Two rubrics will be used to assess this.
4.2 Identify the different kinds of social movements	Quiz
4.3 Explain how cultural context provides the means for innovation to occur	Quiz
4.4 Identify the cause and consequences of culture loss and acculturation	Quiz
4.5 Cite examples of ethnic resurgence from both traditional and western societies	Quiz
4.6 Give examples of how misunderstandings can be a cause and consequences to structural violence in society	Test

D. COURSE CONTENT

Unit I- Anthropology and the study of culture
The nature of Anthropology
The Nature of culture
The beginnings of Human Culture
Unit II-Culture and Survival: Communicating, raising children, and staying alive
Language and Communication
Growing up Human
Patterns of subsistence
Economic Systems
Unit III- The formation of groups: Solving the problem of cooperation
Sex and Marriage
Family and Household
Kinship and Descent
Grouping by sex, age, common interest, and class
Political control and Social Control
Unit IV- Understanding differences in Culture
Religion and the Supernatural
The Arts
Culture change
The future of Humanity

E. METHODS OF INSTRUCTION
None

F. REQURIED TEXT(S) AND COURSE MATERIALS
Haviland, W.A., Prins, H.,Walrath, D., & McBride, B. (2008). Cultural Anthropology; The
human Challenge (12th ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, Cencage learning. (or most recent edition)

G. REFERENCE MATERIALS
None

H. INSTRUCTIONAL COSTS
None

I. EVALUATION
None

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