ANTHR 101
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Cultural Anthropology
Anthropology
College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences
Course Description
Aspects of society and culture: kinship, beliefs, economy, and political order among peoples worldwide. Methods and perspectives used in social/cultural anthropology.
When Taught
All Semesters/Terms
Min
3
Fixed/Max
3
Fixed
3
Fixed
0
Note
Additional seats for specific sections may be available to Freshman Mentoring participants through registration envelopes. NOTE: Also offered by BYU Independent Study; enroll anytime throughout year; one year to complete; additional tuition required.
Title
Culture and Social Life
Learning Outcome
Learn to identify culture as a way of interpreting experience; that culture informs both social life and individual psychology, shaping and coloring how people perceive and act in the world.
Title
Character Development
Learning Outcome
Recognize the strength that comes from doing hard things, including how to effectively identify key points from lots of reading material.
Title
Human Cultural Diversity
Learning Outcome
The Aims of a BYU Education stipulates that students cultivate an informed awareness of the peoples, cultures, languages, and nations of the world. This class will fulfill the Global and Cultural Awareness requirement by acquiring informed awareness of either a) cultures outside their own, or b) the interplay of cultures, languages, and/or nations at an international level.
Title
Critical Thinking Methods
Learning Outcome
Grasp the social scientific principles and reasoning involved in ethnography, and recognize the value, limitations, and ethical implications of this way of making sense of social conduct.
