Learning Outcomes

Understand the history and theory of cultural anthropology, characterize various types of ethnographic work and describe the ways applied anthropology can be used to solve human problems.

Evaluate and critique the assumptions, purposes, methods and ethics of anthropological fieldwork and research.

Illustrate the centrality of culture in the human experience and apply this understanding to a range of social problems such as class, caste and stratification, race, ethnicity and nationalism, and the unequal access to social resources that emerge from these systems.

Distinguish individual, social and cultural frames of analysis through the use of social and anthropological theory.

Demonstrate through the verbal and written forms a multicultural and cross-cultural perspective of our world, and distinguish the factors contributing to diversity and inequality within and among nations.

Understand our human past and the history of human civilization through archaeological concepts, theories and methods.