Intro to Cultural Anthropology

 This course examines the broad range of similarities and differences in the human cultural experience, placing emphasis on how customs, rituals, values, and lifestyles develop and change around the world. Basic concepts central to cultural anthropology – including cultural relativism, ethnocentrism, race, ethnicity, gender, social organization, kinship, ritual, power and inequality, and ethnographic fieldwork – and methods of inquiry are introduced to understand how humans adapt to their physical and social environments. Minimum grade of "C-" is required to count toward major. Offered fall, spring, summer.