ANTH 2346 - General Anthropology

Credits: 3

The study of human beings, their antecedents, related primates, and their cultural behavior and institutions. Introduces the major subfields: physical and cultural anthropology, archeology, linguistics, their applications, and ethics in the discipline. This introductory survey of the four subfields of anthropology focuses on the cultural and biological diversity of humans including hominin prehistory, the emergence of Paleolithic cultures, and the agricultural and urban revolutions from an anthropological perspective. Past and present human adaptations and culture are surveyed and analyzed using the comparative and holistic approach of biological anthropology, archaeology, linguistics and ethnology.

Lecture: 3
Lab: 0
Prerequisite(s): Must be placed into college-level reading and college-level writing
Note: Core Curriculum Course.