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Prerequisites: None. The course will cover the four fields of anthropology: physical archaeology linguistics and cultural. It will cover humans as primates genetics and evolution. the archeological record. language food acquisition economics and political systems group formation family systems religious and belief systems the role of art ethnicity and gender and the contemporary global culture. It will address issues common to all human groups and take a global cross-cultural perspective.

This course provides a cross-cultural study of all human behaviors and social arrangements in contemporary cultures. Topics surveyed include race and ethnicity; language; gender and sexuality; age and kinship roles; religion and spiritual life; marriage and the family; political and economic behavior; globalization and cultural change; and the arts. The main focus will be on the application of the anthropological perspective and methods for understanding social and cultural differences and similarities.