Course ID: ANTH R102 Curriculum Committee Approval Date: 10/28/2015 Catalog Start Date: Fall 2016 COURSE OUTLINE OXNARD COLLEGE I. Course Identification and Justification: A. Proposed course id: ANTH R102 Banner title: Intro to Cultural Anthropology Full title: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Previous course id: ANTH R102 Banner title: Intro to Cultural Anthropology Full title: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology B. Reason(s) course is offered: This course is required for anthropology majors throughout the UC and CSU including those at CSUCI and CSUN. It is also included as a Core requirement in the AA-T in Anthropology. In addition, it provides general education credit for students following IGETC, CSU GE-Breadth, or Oxnard College General Education. C. Reason(s) for current outline revision: Creation of Honors Course D. C-ID: 1. C-ID Descriptor: ANTH 120 2. C-ID Status: E. Co-listed as: Current: None Previous: II. Catalog Information: A. Units: Current: 3.00 Previous: 3.00 B. Course Hours: 1. In-Class Contact Hours: Lecture: 52.5 Activity: 0 Lab: 0 2. Total In-Class Contact Hours: 52.5 3. Total Outside-of-Class Hours: 105 4. Total Student Learning Hours: 157.5 C. Prerequisites, Corequisites, Advisories, and Limitations on Enrollment: 1. Prerequisites Current: Previous: 2. Corequisites Current: Previous: 3. Advisories: Current: Previous: 4. Limitations on Enrollment: Current: Previous: D. Catalog description: Current: This course explores how anthropologists study and compare human culture. Cultural anthropologists seek to understand the broad arc of human experience focusing on a set of central issues: how people around the world make their living (subsistence patterns); how they organize themselves socially, politically and economically; how they communicate; how they relate to each other through family and kinship ties; what they believe about the world (belief systems); how they express themselves creatively (expressive culture); how they make distinctions among themselves such as through applying gender, racial and ethnic identity labels; how they have shaped and been shaped by social inequalities such as colonialism; and how they navigate culture change and processes of globalization that affect us all. Ethnographic case studies highlight these similarities and differences, and introduce students to how anthropologists do their work, employ professional anthropological research ethics and apply their perspectives and skills to understand humans around the globe. Credit will not be awarded for both the honors and regular versions of a course. Credit will be awarded only for the first course completed with a grade of C or “P” or better. Previous, if different: This course explores how anthropologists study and compare human culture. Cultural anthropologists seek to understand the broad arc of human experience focusing on a set of central issues: how people around the world make their living (subsistence patterns); how they organize themselves socially, politically and economically; how they communicate; how they relate to each other through family and kinship ties; what they believe about the world (belief systems); how they express themselves creatively (expressive culture); how they make distinctions among themselves such as through applying gender, racial and ethnic identity labels; how they have shaped and been shaped by social inequalities such as colonialism; and how they navigate culture change and processes of globalization that affect us all. Ethnographic case studies highlight these similarities and differences, and introduce students to how anthropologists do their work, employ professional anthropological research ethics and apply their perspectives and skills to understand humans around the globe. E. Fees: Current: $ None Previous, if different: $ F. Field trips: Current: Will be required: [ ] May be required: [X] Will not be required: [ ] Previous, if different: Will be required: [ ] May be required: [ ] Will not be required: [X] G. Repeatability: Current: A - Not designed as repeatable Previous: 1 - H. Credit basis: Current: Letter graded only [x] Pass/no pass [ ] Student option [ ] Previous, if different: Letter graded only [ ] Pass/no pass [ ] Student option [ ] I. Credit by exam: Current: Petitions may be granted: [ ] Petitions will not be granted: [X] Previous, if different: Petitions may be granted: [ ] Petitions will not be granted: [ ] III. Course Objectives: Upon successful completion of this course, the student should be able to: A. Define the scope of anthropology and discuss the role of cultural anthropology within the discipline. B. Recognize the methods, theories and perspectives used to study and understand human cultures. C. Explain the importance of the ethnographic method in the study of culture. D. Employ the relativist perspective while discussing cultural variation. E. Demonstrate an understanding of anthropological concepts including ethnicity, gender, political organization, economic systems, kinship, rituals and belief systems. F. Explain the interconnectedness of the economic, political and sociocultural forces of globalization amongst diverse cultural groups. G. Analyze and evaluate the ethical issues anthropologists encounter, and professional ethical obligations that must be met in the study of and application in cultural groups different from their own. H. Independently collect and arrange ethnographic data. I. Propose various dynamics or processes by which culture change occurs. IV. Student Learning Outcomes: A. Students completing the course will be able to analyze how beliefs and behaviors in different culture or subcultures may be adaptive and/or maladaptive, and will be able to discuss the principle of cultural relativism. B. Students will develop skills in ethnographic writing, speaking and presentation. C. Students will be able to classify various societies using more than one anthropological schema and will be able to assess the impact of modernization and globalization on human cultures. D. Students completing the course will be able to apply scientific method to understand human cultures and subcultures. E. Students will be able to observe and treat other cultures, which may be quite distinct from their own, with respect, objectivity and a high regard for ethics. F. Students will possess an anthropological framework for lifelong observation and understanding of their own culture, subcultures, and the cultures of others, including a command of modern research and informational retrieval skills. V. Course Content: Topics to be covered include, but are not limited to: A. Introduction to Anthropology: Its history, theories, methods and perspectives 1. Anthropology as a fundamental Enlightenment Science, and as a descendant of Western philosophy and the science of history. 2. Pre-anthropological attempts at understanding races, cultures, foreigners and ethnic groups. 3. Emic v. etic analysis. 4. Synchronic v. diachronic studies, the role of participant observation. 5. How cultural relativism and holism relate to the development of ethnography. 6. Basic theories a. Functionalism b. Structural-Functionalism c. Structuralism d. Diffusionism 7. The limitations of anthropology. B. Anthropological study of human cultures in comparative perspective 1. Geographical range and variation 2. Temporal range and variation 3. The role of ethnographic in comparing cultures 4. Participant-observation, theories of culture, cultural boundaries, culture change. 5. Avoiding ethnocentrism, accounting for the observer effect. 6. Early anthropology and the concept of culture shock/cognitive dissonance. C. Subsistence 1. Types of subsistence a. Hunter-Gatherers/Foragers b. Simple Farmers c. Pastoralists d. Agricultural civilizations e. Industrial and industrializing civilizations f. Post-industrial civilizations g. Peripatetic cultures 2. Theories about subsistence a. Ecological anthropology b. Structural functionalism (or other example) D. Family and Kinship 1. Structural anthropology and the basics of kinship. 2. Functional and ecological explanations of kinship. 3. How to chart kin systems, known human variations in kinship. 4. Marriage patterns, polygyny, monogamy, polyandry, locality, lineage and clan. 5. Lineages and localities 6. Fictive kinship E. Social, Political and Economic Organization 1. Exchange, gifting, reciprocity, barter and markets: the various ways goods and services change hands. 2. The rise of ancient market economies and the evolution of money. 3. Social Control and Authority 4. Bands, tribes & ethnicities, kin-based systems of social control. 5. Civilization, the rise of the Nation-State, and specialized means of social control. 6. Symbolic means of social control, including proverbs, mass media, folklore and peer pressure. 7. Stage theories of social control. 8. Colonial and imperialism as extensions of social control. 9. Tactics of resistance and primitive rebellion. 10. Ethnic revitalization movements. F. Language and Communication 1. Basic linguistic: phonology, syntax, semantics, proxemics 2. Historical linguistics 3. Child language acquisition. 4. Signs and symbols G. Belief Systems 1. Worldview: Philosophy, Nature and the Supernatural. 2. The rise of spiritual traditions and the evolution of religion. 3. Symbolic systems and their basic components. 4. Ethos, folk philosophy and philosophy H. Art and expressive Culture 1. Music and dance as basic human activities, their evolution and their present role in culture. 2. Oral traditions, storytelling, cosmologies,