ANTH 101
How to Be Human
Fall 2017
(also offered Spring 2018)
Division II
Exploring Diversity Initiative
This is not the current course catalog
Class Details
Is there such a thing as “human nature”? Why have human societies developed such a bewildering range of customs to deal with problems common to people everywhere? This course addresses these questions by introducing students to the comparative study of human social life and culture. Topics surveyed in the course include economics, language and thought, kinship and marriage, law and politics, and the wide variations in human belief systems, including religions. The course also considers the ways that anthropology, a discipline that was until recently practiced almost exclusively by Westerners, approaches other societies in search of insights on our own customs and values. Ethnographic descriptions of both “simple” tribal societies and complex modern ones are a prominent part of the readings. This course explores differences and similarities between cultures and societies and ways in which they have interacted and responded to one another in the past.
The Class:
Format: lecture/discussion of case studies and ethnographic films
Limit: 30
Expected: 30
Class#: 1037
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Limit: 30
Expected: 30
Class#: 1037
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation:
two short essays, a final examination and class participation
Prerequisites:
first-year students and sophomores
Enrollment Preferences:
first-year students and sophomores; juniors and seniors admitted only by permission of instructor
Distributions:
Division II
Exploring Diversity Initiative
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ANTH 101 - 01 (F) LEC How to Be Human
ANTH 101 - 01 (F) LEC How to Be HumanDivision II Exploring Diversity InitiativeTR 11:20 am - 12:35 pm
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