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Anthropology 202
Peoples and Cultures: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Credit hours: 5
GEC categories: soc sci individuals and groups course
Prerequisites: An open mind
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Example Syllabus: no dates cultural syllabus fall 2008.doc
Website: http://anthropology.ohio-state.edu/faculty/pages/kitchen.php
Course Objectives: My main objectives: 1) To help you understand major theories used to explain various cultural patterns; 2) To acquaint you with the diversity of peoples, places and cultures that make up our world; 3) To give you an understanding of the major patterns of human adaptation to their environment; 4) To learn about your own culture by studying other cultures; 5) To assist you in understanding the impact of our collective actions on other cultures, the global economy, and global environmental issues; 6) To encourage you to treat people in other cultures with sensitivity, dignity and respect. Making the unfamiliar familiar is a first step.
Course Content: I hope that the course will convey a sense of excitement in discovering other lifestyles. We will examine the diversity of human societies (including various economic, political, religious, subsistence and social systems) around the world. Sometimes this will mean "visiting" the "exotic" and remote non-industrial societies you have seen on National Geographic, and sometimes we will stay home and look (with fresh eyes) at your own culture.
Method of Presentation: Power point lectures with slides, films, large and small discussion groups. Readings will come form an edited volume (Angeloni, E., Annual Editions: Anthropology, McGraw-Hill) and a textbook by Bailey & Peoples (Essentials of Cultural Anthropology, Wadsworth).
Method of Evaluation: You will be evaluated based on your attendance & participation, exams (multiple choice & short answer), short informal 'responses' to a few of the assigned readings, and your Self-Ethnography Journal (a collection of short introspective essays).
