ANTH 300 - Anthropology of Global Change

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-4
An introduction to applied and economic anthropology. The relevance of anthropology to contemporary socio-economic issues and challenges including applications to education, infectious disease, criminalization, gentrification, imperialism, and economic globalization.

Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-4 - Upper Division Social and Behavioral Sciences
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas 1A, 1B, 1C and GE-2 with grade C- (CR) or better (GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division GE Area 4 requirements (Area D1-2 requirements for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

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

define and explain essential terms in anthropology (particularly, applied and sociocultural anthropology);
use anthropological frameworks and theories to examine contemporary cultural issues;
explain how participant-observation can be used to study social problems;
and analyze opposing viewpoints using evidence rather than preconceived notions.

GE-UD-4. Upper-division Social and Behavioral 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.