- Know key principles and methods of cultural
anthropology, and demonstrate the ability to take these understandings
and apply them to their everyday lives and the world at large. Key
concepts include: holism, cultural relativism, ethnocentrism,
comparative approach, emic/etic perspectives, culture concept,
self/other dynamic and participant observation.
- Recognize the significance of
culture in shaping human's worldview and discern how culture impacts
human's beliefs and actions, including their place in the world in
relationship to others' place in the world and how culture impacts
our understanding of who and what we are.
- Know how culture shapes and
impacts major human institutions including marriage, religion,
economics, politics, and education.
- Know the depth and breadth of the
field of cultural anthropology, anthropological theories, methods,
history and applications to real world problems.
- Know what encompasses
scientific knowledge and the ability to discern the difference
between scientific knowledge from other ways of knowing.
- Know the processes of
evolution and how they work to shape living organisms over time, and
recognize and anticipate the effects the processes of evolution have
on living organisms and connect this knowledge to real world
situations.
- Know Homo sapiens place in the
animal kingdom using a holistic and comparative approach, including
modern day Homo sapiens in relation to the following - (including both
biological and social adaptations): human variation, primate
order, hominid history.
- Apply theoretical orientations of
physical anthropology to both human and non-human primates.
- Know the depth and breadth of the
field of physical anthropology and its role in the discipline of
anthropology.
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