COURSE learning objectives, ACTIVITIES, and methods of assessment

LEARNING OUTCOMES
​After completing this course, you should be able to: ​
ACTIVITIES AND METHODS OF ASSESSMENT​​
  • 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. 
  • Read My Freshman Year and answer Reading Response questions
  • Read Barrett, Culture and Conduct and answer Reading Response questions
  • Read and discuss assigned articles from four sub-disciplines
  • Quiz 1: 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Read Johnson, Privilege, Power, and Difference and submit your Response Journal
  • 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, and gather data to evaluate the hypothesis. This is a skill you will need throughout your time at CC. 
  • Design, implement, and report (orally and in-writing) the results of a cross-cultural, comparative research study.  
  • Read and discuss assigned articles
  • Describe what evolutionary theory is, the material evidence that supports the theory, its mechanisms (i.e., natural selection, mutation, migration, genetic drift), and how it helps us understand human variation today and in the past. 
  • Evaluate the application of evolutionary theory to social systems
  • Read assigned chapters/articles on evolutionary processes
  • Student presentations on evolutionary concepts
  • Quiz 2