ANT 2410 - Cultural Anthropology

College of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Credit(s): 3
Contact Hours: 47
Effective Term Spring 2018 (540)

Requisites

(Prerequisite ENC 0025 and
Prerequisite REA 0017) or
Prerequisite EAP 1695 or
Prerequisite appropriate score on the college placement test.

Course Description

This course is the study of the influence of culture on human behavior. The course deals with cultural variations and similarities in the areas of subsistence techniques and technology, family and kinship, social order and disorder, and world view. This course partially satisfies the writing requirements outlined in the General Education Requirements. Note: Study Abroad opportunities may apply to this course (https://blog.spcollege.edu/international/study-abroad/).

Course Topics

Topic 1
  Study Abroad - New Zealand

Learning Outcomes and Objectives

  1. The student will demonstrate knowledge of the concept of culture and its main components by:
    1. identifying the major components of culture.
    2. recognizing the relationship between culture, the individual, and the model personality.
    3. relating historical and current theoretical orientations to the study of culture.
    4. stating the ways in which behavior is influenced by language.
    5. distinguishing between ethnocentrism and cultural relativism.
  2. The student will demonstrate knowledge of cultural variation in subsistence techniques and the use of technology by:
    1. distinguishing between the characteristics of food collectors and food producers.
    2. recognizing changes in technology and their effects on other aspects of culture.
    3. identifying cultural variations in the allocation, conversion, and distribution of economic resources.
  3. The student will understand cultural variation in the area of family and kinship by:
    1. summarizing different marriage customs.
    2. classifying different child-rearing methods.
    3. explaining different types of family structures.
    4. describing different kinship organizations.
    5. identifying a diagram of marriages, family structures, and kinship terminology systems.
  4. The student will understand conflict within and between cultures and ways in which social order is maintained by:
    1. determining the causes of inequality within cultures.
    2. describing the points of conflict between cultures.
    3. summarizing the variations in political organization.
    4. classifying the formal and informal methods of social control.
  5. The student will understand cultural variation in world view by:
    1. describing the types of supernatural forces recognized in different cultures.
    2. summarizing the various types of religious practitioners.
    3. discussing the difference between religion and magic, animism and mana, fetishes and amulets.
  6. The student will demonstrate increased ability in writing by planning and writing one or more of the following (all of which are evaluated):
    1. research, analysis, outline, evaluation or other types of papers completed outside of the direct classroom experience.
    2. research, analysis, outline, journal, evaluation or other types of essays completed during the direct classroom experience.
    3. any type of expository, evaluative, persuasive or personal response writing as described in the college publication entitled " A Resource Manual for Writing Across the Curriculum."

Criteria Performance Standard

Upon successful completion of the course the student will, with a minimum of 70% accuracy, demonstrate mastery of each of the above stated objectives through classroom measures developed by individual course instructors.

History of Changes

Revised 8/83. Revised 8/84. Per Telecourse Review 11/86 3 YR review 92/93. DBT 1/24/96, Effective Session 19961. 2000 3 yr rev reformatted MAR. SCNS change eff I, 2001 (20011). Flex access 20032 3 Year Review 2004. Amend prereq eff 20071(0385). 3 Year Review 2008. Amended prerequisites effective 20112(0450). C&I Approval: , BOT Approval: , Effective Term: Spring 2012 (450).
C&I Approval: 08/17/2017, BOT Approval: 09/19/2017, Effective Term: Spring 2018 (540)

Related Programs

  1. USF St. Petersburg - Anthropology (FSPANTH-TR) (670) (Active)
  2. USF Tampa - Anthropology (FTANTH-TR) (670) (Active)