ANTH 114: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

ANTH 114-K01: Intro to Cultural Anthropology
(Spring 2020)

10:30 AM to 11:45 AM MW

Mason Korea (119 Songdomunhwa-ro, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon, Korea) G203

Section Information for Spring 2020

ANTH 114 - K01: Intro to Cultural Anthropology

This course introduces students to the field of cultural anthropology. Through lectures, readings, films, writing exercises, and discussions, this course will cover a range of intriguing topics with cross-cultural examples. These include assumptions that we may not even recognize as cultural, but may take for granted as a natural part of our common sense.

This course may provoke you. The course may also, at times, offend you. We are presenting controversial material on controversial topics – race, science, religion, gender, sexuality, etc. The course is designed according to the philosophy that an education is worthless if it does not provoke, challenge, disrupt and perhaps cause you to reformulate the assumptions you brought to it in the first place. At the same time, your voice and opinion is essential to this classroom space.

As much as this class serves to challenge and disrupt your existing assumptions about the world around you, your own perspective is valuable and valid, and this course aims to develop your ability to express your opinion in an intelligent and organized manner.

 

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Overview of major ideas and approaches to the study of cultures around the world. Surveys kinship, social organization, political economy, religious beliefs, language and other aspects of non-Western cultures. Limited to three attempts.
Mason Core: Social/Behavioral Sciences
Specialized Designation: Non-Western Culture
Schedule Type: Lecture
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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