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| Anthropology LPC |
| ANTR 1 | Biological Anthropology | 3.00 Units | ||
| This course introduces the concepts, methods of inquiry, and scientific explanations for biological evolution and their application to the human species. Issues and topics will include, but are not limited to, genetics, evolutionary theory, human variation and biocultural adaptations, comparative primate anatomy and behavior, and the fossil evidence for human evolution. The scientific method serves as foundation of the course. Recommended Course Preparation: Eligibility for ENG 1A | ||||
| College: Las Positas College | ||||
| Division: BSSL | ||||
| ANTR 1L | Biological Anthropology Lab | 1.00 Unit | ||
| This laboratory course is offered as a supplement to Introduction to Biological Anthropology either taken concurrently or in a subsequent term. Laboratory exercises are designed to introduce students to the scientific method and explore genetics, human variation, human and non-human primate anatomy and behavior, the primate/hominin fossil record and other resources to investigate processes that affect human evolution. Prerequisite: ANTR 1 with a minimum grade of C (May be taken concurrently) Recommended Course Preparation: Eligibility for ENG 1A | ||||
| College: Las Positas College | ||||
| Division: BSSL | ||||
| ANTR 2 | Introduction to Archaeology | 3.00 Units | ||
| This course is an introduction to the study of concepts, theories, data and models of anthropological archaeology that contribute to our knowledge of the human past. The course includes a discussion of the nature of scientific inquiry; the history and interdisciplinary nature of archaeological research; dating techniques; methods of survey, excavation, analysis, and interpretation; cultural resource management; professional ethics; and selected cultural sequences. Recommended Course Preparation: Eligibility for ENG 1A | ||||
| College: Las Positas College | ||||
| Division: BSSL | ||||
| ANTR 3 | Cultural Anthropology | 3.00 Units | ||
| This course explores how anthropologists study and compare human culture. Cultural anthropologists seek to understand the broad arc of human experience focusing on a set of central issues: how people around the world make their living (subsistence patterns); how they organize themselves socially, politically and economically; how they communicate; how they relate to each other through family and kinship ties; what they believe about the world (belief systems); how they express themselves creatively (expressive culture); how they make distinctions among themselves such as through applying gender, racial and ethnic identity labels; how they have shaped and been shaped by social inequalities such as colonialism; and how they navigate culture change and processes of globalization that affect us all. Ethnographic case studies highlight these similarities and differences, and introduce students to how anthropologists do their work, employ professional anthropological research ethics and apply their perspectives and skills to understand humans around the globe. Recommended Course Preparation: Eligibility for ENG 1A. | ||||
| College: Las Positas College | ||||
| Division: BSSL | ||||
| ANTR 4 | Language and Culture | 3.00 Units | ||
| This introductory course serves as a foundation for understanding language from an anthropological perspective, addressing such core questions as how, what, when, where, why and with whom we communicate. This course surveys three core areas in linguistic anthropology --structural linguistics: phonetics, phonology, morphology and syntax, as well as the biocultural basis of language; historical linguistics: origins and evolution/change, dialects, and language families; and sociocultural linguistics: language acquisition in cultural context, emphasizing the relationship between language and culture, and issues of language conservation and loss. Recommended Course Preparation: Eligibilty for ENG 1A | ||||
| College: Las Positas College | ||||
| Division: BSSL | ||||
| ANTR 7 | Native American Cultures | 3.00 Units | ||
| Survey of ways of life of traditional North American Indian cultures in different geographical areas throughout North America prior to European contact and continuing today. Topics include prehistory of Native American cultures, cultural change in response to European contact, current Native American socio-economic conditions, recent legislation including NAGPRA, social movements and cultural renewal. | ||||
| College: Las Positas College | ||||
| Division: BSSL | ||||
| ANTR 12 | Magic/Religion/Witchcraft/Heal | 3.00 Units | ||
| Cross-cultural perspectives on spirituality, religious practice, myth, ancestor beliefs, witchcraft and the variety of religious rituals and practitioners found in the cultures of the world. Examination of the cosmologies of different cultures through the anthropological perspective. Emphasis is placed on how knowledge of the religious practices and beliefs of others can help us to understand the multicultural world in which we live. Comparison of the ways in which diverse cultures confront the large and fundamental questions of existence: those dealing with the meaning life, birth and death, and with the relationship of humans to each other and to their universe. Recommended Course Preparation: Eligibility for ENG 1A/1AEX | ||||
| College: Las Positas College | ||||
| Division: BSSL | ||||
| ANTR 13 | Intro to Forensic Anthropology | 3.00 Units | ||
| Introductory course in the application of physical anthropology to the medico-legal process with an emphasis on the identification of human skeletal remains. Includes basic human osteoology and odontology , assessment of age at time of death, sex, ancestry, trauma analysis, pathology, and general physical characteristics including height and weight based upon minimal skeletal remains. Estimation of time since death, crime scene analysis, animal scavenging, and identification procedures. Recommended Course Preparation: Eligibility for ENG 1A | ||||
| College: Las Positas College | ||||
| Division: BSSL | ||||
| ANTR 29B | Independent Study, Biological | .50 to 2.00 Units | ||
| Students choose a topic to research within the field of biological anthropology and, with the guidance of the instructor, produce a final product to deliver the results of their findings. | ||||
| College: Las Positas College | ||||
| Division: BSSL | ||||
| ANTR 29C | Independent Study, Archaeology | .50 to 2.00 Units | ||
| Students choose a topic to research in the field of archaeology or human prehistory and, with the guidance of the instructor, produce a final product to deliver the results of their findings. Strongly Recommended: Eligibility for ENG 1A | ||||
| College: Las Positas College | ||||
| Division: BSSL | ||||
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