COURSE learning objectives, ACTIVITIES, and methods of assessment

LEARNING OUTCOMES
​After completing this course, you should be able to: ​
ACTIVITIES AND METHODS OF ASSESSMENT​​
  • Generate original insights into human and cultural diversity using cross-cultural comparative research methods and the Human Relations Area Files
  • Understand how the comparative method may be used to solve problems in several types of jobs/careers. 
  • Identify an answerable and specific research question, a hypothesis, independent and dependent variables, appropriate inferential statistics, and gather data to evaluate the hypothesis. This is a skill you will need throughout your time at CC. 
  • Understand the importance of statistical tests for analyzing different types of data and how data are used to make inferences and draw conclusions.
  • Develop your ability to effectively design, implement, and orally present convincing evidence-based results in multiple venues. 
  • Design, implement, and report (orally and in-writing) the results of a cross-cultural, comparative research study. 
  • Create a Research Design
  • Create a Data Table
  • Create new insights through your cross-cultural research study
  • Class readings and discussions
  • Read and discuss assigned articles
  • Develop and demonstrate an anthropological perspective to better understand past and present human and social conditions (e.g., inequality, race) with an emphasis on explaining human and cultural diversity (variation). 
  • Read Barrett, Culture and Conduct, a primary source for understanding key anthropological concepts
  • Read and discuss assigned articles as an introduction to anthropology
  • Read eHRAF ethnographies to understand the work of sociocultural anthropologists
  • The Cross-Cultural Research Report will be presented in a style consistent with an scientifically-focused anthropological perspective
  • Rely on a denser, more richly connected network of anthropological knowledge, skills, and methods. I hope that this denser network will help you better understand your fellow humans and assist you in making a positive impact on the world. That is, it will help you become a more thoughtful and stronger world citizen. 
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  • Key Concepts Quiz:  the focus is on understanding what anthropology is, ways it is practiced in each of the four sub-disciplines, and to be able to define and apply key terms in the discipline. ​