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Students will analyze how individuals are organized into social groups, ranging from intimate groups to bureaucracies. This course introduces the organization of groups can influence individual behavior? nature and interrelationships of basic social institutions, such as family, education, religion, and economy. Pre-requisite(s): None. Co-requisite(s): None. 5 quarter hours

This course introduces students to the fundamental concepts, theories, methods and approaches in cultural anthropology. Students will learn how anthropologists study humans’ cultures and the ways they differ across time and space. Students will also examine how anthropologists analyze the variations in how people approach and solve problems, cooperate or conflict, produce and reproduce, and express and share beliefs. Topics include the anthropological ways of understanding language, marriage, family, gender, ethnicity, social inequality, environment, globalization, law, and economics. Pre-requisite(s): None. Co-requisite(s): None 5 quarter hours