Length of Course: One semester (14 weeks)

 

Classroom Hours Per Week: 4 hours lecture

 

Number of Credits: 3 credits

 

Prerequisite: C+ or higher in English 098 or LWA 099 placement or equivalent external score

 

An introduction to the comparative study of culture. This course focuses on the concepts of adaptation and evolution and the ethnographic method. A basic frame work that includes habitat, technology, social organization, economy, political structure and religion/ideology is developed for understanding and comparing ethnographic cases. A brief overview of the physical evolution of human is included at the beginning of the second term.

 

 

Week 1                        Chap.    1        The Nature of Anthropology
Weeks 2 - 3                               2        The Nature of Culture
Weeks 4 - 5                               5        Making a Living
Weeks 6 - 7                               6        Economic Systems
Week 8                                       3        The Beginnings of Human Culture
Week 9                                       7        Sex & Marriage
Weeks 10 - 11                          8        Family & Household
Weeks 12 – 13                         9        Kinship & Descent

 

Quizzes (multiple choice, short essay questions) 30%
Research Paper/Project 10%
Midterm Exam 20%
Final Exam 30%
Discussion/class participation 10%

 

Haviland et el, Cultural Anthropology (3rd Canadian Edition); Chodkiewicz, Ed., Peoples of the Past and Present

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UVic: Anth 100 level (1.5 units)