Cultural Anthropology |
2024-2025 UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES CATALOG
Effective 1 June 2024 through 31 May 2025
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Minor
18 Credit Hours
This program is offered by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences/Global Languages, Cultures and Societies Department聽and is only available at the St. Louis main campus.
For information on the general requirements for a minor, see Minor under the Academic Policies and Information section of this catalog.
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.
Special Requirements
In addition to the general University requirements for a minor:
- Students who transfer in ANSO 1060 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology must take an additional 3 credit hour ANSO elective at 四虎影视.
Required Courses
- ANSO 1060 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology聽(3 hours)
- ANSO 2200 Peoples and Cultures聽(3 hours)
- ANSO Electives聽(12 hours, of which 6 hours are at 3000-level or above)
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