Anthropology 131 - Culture:What Makes It All Work

Institution:

University of California-Los Angeles

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Description:

Lecture, three hours. Preparation: two lower division social sciences courses (may be from different departments). Examination of some basic questions addressed by anthropologists in their study of what is meant by culture. Consideration of theories of culture and evolutionary origins of culture. Review of new analytic methods that allow students to begin to do quasi-experimental research into nature of culture and introduction to multiagent simulation as framework for modeling how culture can be both supra-organic and embedded in minds of culture bearers. P/NP or letter grading.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.ucla.edu/

Phone Number:

(310) 825-4321

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Quarter

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