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Introductory Cultural Anthropology

Social SciencesUndergraduateCollege of Liberal Arts

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Explicate the anthropological concept of culture, specifying how evidence for human cultural learning demonstrates the lack of evidence for the existence of biological "races".

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Summarize how cultural anthropologists use participant-observation to learn about the ways of life of living people, and how these change over time and across space.

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Articulate the importance for cultural anthropologists of symbolic processes in all human activities.

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Demonstrate the ability to read, think, and evaluate qualitative data from a critical perspective.

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Demonstrate writing skills that involve communicating ideas clearly, synthesizing information, and analyzing and applying anthropological concepts.

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Demonstrate knowledge of, and respect for, human cultural diversity worldwide and through time.