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Course Descriptions

   
101 Human Biological Evolution
Units: 3
Transferablity: UC:CSU
Prerequisite: None
Lecture: 3 hours
Description: The relation of humans to the animal world; their evolution; fossil evidence, genetics; racial classification; contemporary forms and distribution.

   
102 Human Ways of Life: Cultural Anthropology
Units: 3
Transferablity: UC:CSU
Prerequisite: None (May be taken before Anthropology 101)
Lecture: 3 hours
Description: The development of culture from its origins through the beginnings of civilization; main themes are language, society, religion, political and economic organization, and analogies are drawn for contemporary, primitive and peasant societies.

   
103 Archaeology: Reconstructing the Human Past
Units: 3
Transferablity: UC:CSU
Prerequisite: None
Lecture: 3 hours
Description: Objectives and methods of modern archaeology; important archaeological discoveries throughout the world; contributions of archaeology toward understanding development of human culture.

   
109 Gender, Sex and Culture
Units: 3
Transferablity: UC:CSU
Prerequisite: None
Lecture: 3 hours
Description: This course provides a world-wide comparison of gender roles and sexuality as viewed from various perspectives, including the biological/evolutionary, the cultural, the psychological, the historic, and the prehistoric, especially as they relate to the status of women and men in modern Western Society.

   
111 Laboratory in Human Biological Evolution
Units: 2
Transferablity: UC:CSU
Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: Anthropology 101
Lecture: 1 hour
Laboratory: 2 hours
Description: This course offers the students a hands-on laboratory experience in selected topics in biological anthropology, including human genetics, modern human variation, the living primates, human evolution, and forensic analysis.

   
121 Anthropology of Religion, Magic and Witchcraft
Units: 3
Transferablity: UC:CSU
Prerequisite: None
Lecture: 3 hours
Description: A consideration of the origins, functions and varieties of religious beliefs and practices, with special emphasis on primitive and prehistoric societies.

   
141 Medical Anthropology
Units: 3
Transferablity: CSU
Prerequisite: None
Lecture: 3 hours
Description: Presents a survey of healing systems in tribal, peasant, and industrialized societies. Emphasis is placed on the ritual aspects of all healing systems, including that of our modern society and on understanding medicine as both a cultural and biological system.