| |
Dec 04, 2025
|
|
|
|
|
ANTH 140 - Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology
Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-4
An anthropological exploration of the human communicative capacity, starting with the communicative modalities of language and the body and culminating in the study of contemporary language and media.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-4 - Lower Division Social and Behavioral Sciences
Possible Instructional Methods: Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- define and explain essential terms and concepts in the anthropology of communication;
- compare and contrast human language with animal signaling systems;
- compare different modalities of human communication;
- compare norms of communication in different culture;
- discuss how language communicates information about power and social hierarchies;
- use linguistic-anthropological frameworks and theories to analyze mass media messages.
GE-4. Lower-division Social and Behavioral Sciences Electives Learning Outcomes
- Explain how social, political, and economic institutions and/or principles intersect with each other.
- Describe how people produce, resist, and/or transform social, political, and economic institutions/principles.
- Investigate contemporary and/or historical events/issues from a social science perspective.
Add to Folder (opens a new window)
|
|
