Students will explore human culture through time by tracing its development and comparing cultures around the world. Key topics include the nature of culture; language and communication; identity and gender roles; how people make a living and exchange goods; marriage, family, and kinship systems; politics, power, and conflict; religion, spirituality, and the supernatural; cultural change; and how anthropology addresses today’s global challenges.
This course fulfils: Multicultural competency and Social and Behavioral Sciences requirement. Should you have questions about the course, please feel free to contact me at lap.siu@ttu.edu