ANTH 350 - Indians of California

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-D
Archaeology, ethno-history, and ethnography of the people living in and around what is now known as California before Old World-New World contact.

Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area D1-3 requirements.
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 with grade C- (CR) or better.
Equivalent Quarter Course: ANTH 3505.
Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-D - Upper Division Social Sciences
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

discuss the origins and development of prehistoric cultural patterns throughout California;
identify the underlying similarities as well as the wide range of variability of native societies in California;
explain the astonishing proliferation of cultural and linguistic groups in native California;
discuss the ecological diversity of the native peoples’ adjustment to the resources offered by the natural order, including the general patterns of life within each of the major ecological zones;
summarize the destruction wrought upon the native peoples and their cultures through the impact of European and American cultural systems;
summarize the native peoples’ responses to European and American colonization;
discuss the nature of Native Californian cultural heritage in today’s world.

UD-D. Upper-division Social Sciences Learning Outcomes

analyze how power and social identity affect social outcomes for different cultural and economic groups using methods of social science inquiry and vocabulary appropriate to those methods;
demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply accurately disciplinary concepts of the social or behavioral sciences; and
demonstrate an understanding of and ability to effectively plan or conduct research using an appropriate method of the social or behavioral sciences.