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Dec 04, 2025
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ANTH 130 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-4
Exploration of social and cultural dynamics worldwide; human-environmental relationships across cultures; effects of political economy on cultural autonomy.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-4 - Lower Division Social and Behavioral Sciences
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Synchronous.
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 sociocultural anthropology;
- explain how culture shapes and is shaped by environments, histories, biologies, pre-existing ideas, and power relations;
- use anthropological frameworks and theories to analyze various cultural phenomena (e.g., religion and ritual, gender dynamics and roles, power distribution);
- discuss the ways in which people create culture and the extent they are limited by particular cultural frameworks.
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.
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