Anthropology - General Anthropology

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This course is an introduction to the discipline of Anthropology. Our goal is to understand human diversity in the past, present, and future through the lenses of the four primary fields of Anthropology: Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology, and Sociocultural Anthropology. Students will be introduced to major concepts, research approaches, important findings, and critical controversies within the discipline as a whole. We will investigate such questions as: How did humans evolve? How have human cultures and languages developed? What tools, technologies, and new kinds of knowledge and expertise emerge in the face of global environmental, social, political, and economic change? Satisfies: Goal 3 Social Sciences (GE3S) , Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS)