Anthropology
3 semester credits. This course examines the forces that shape human cultures, communities, and social life across the world. Drawing on the methods and perspectives of cultural anthropology - including cross-cultural comparison, ethnographic observation, and fieldwork - students will explore the diversity and variation that characterize human experience across different societies and contexts. Topics include the relationship between people and their environment, systems of social organization, law, politics, economics, and religion, as well as the rituals, symbolic practices, and community structures through which cultures express identity, transmit values, and navigate change. Students will develop an understanding of human beings as social and cultural actors, gaining the analytical tools to engage critically and empathetically with cultural difference in an interconnected world.
Cross-listed from Food and Culture
Cross-listed from Food and Culture
Cross-listed from Wine and Culture
Cross-listed from Urban Studies
Cross-listed from Art History
Cross-listed from Art History
Cross-listed from Philosophy
Cross-listed from Sociology
Cross-listed from Sociology
Cross-listed from Sociology
Cross-listed from Sociology
Cross-listed from Sociology