Discuss the role and scope of socio-cultural anthropology.
Demonstrate mastery of basic (socio-cultural) anthropological terms and concepts, apply them in cross-cultural contexts, and have an understanding of anthropological methods of inquiry.
Demonstrate a capacity for coherent, principled analysis of concrete social problems.
Compare and contrast the structures of social relationships and belief systems that operate in different cultural settings.
Display familiarity with a variety of topics, institutions, organizations and cultural processes (e.g., family, kinship, economics, politics, technology, race, ethnicity, and globalization) and get acquainted with a variety of theoretical perspectives that have been used in anthropology to shed some light on these issues.
Mode of Delivery
Face to face
Prerequisites
No
Recommended Optional Programme Components
No
Course Description
This course is designed to introduce students to the field of socio-cultural anthropology, which studies human cultures, in all times and places, and in all their forms. In this course, you will learn how to think like an anthropologist and find the opportunity to examine other cultures as well as your own. The reading material selected for this course will challenge you to think outside of your own cultural assumptions, help you to look at human culture from a critical distance and approach cultural diversity with thoughtfulness and sensitivity.
Course Contents
WEEK
TOPICS
1st Week
Introduction to the General Topics and Content of the Course
2nd Week
The scope of anthropology and its relationship with other sciences
3rd Week
Field methods
4th Week
Culture, ethnocentrism, cultural relativism, universality
5th Week
The construction of races, cultural racism
6th Week
Food production, settled societies, social organizations
7th Week
Midterm Exam
8th Week
Cultural change, adaptation
9th Week
World system
10th Week
Economic systems
11th Week
The construction of gender
12th Week
Applied anthropology
13th Week
Colonialism and development
14th Week
The Social and Cultural Past, Way of lives and Developments of Humans, Social Evolution
15th Week
Public Holiday
16th Week
General Overview
Recommended or Required Reading
Conrad, P.C. (2004) Anthropology: The Exploration of Human Diversity. McGraw Hill Publish
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
Lecture
Discussion
Presentation
Questions/Answers
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Quantity
Percentage (%)
Mid-term
1
35
Assignment
2
25
Total(%)
60
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)
60
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)
