Courses in anthropology and sociology (ANSO) are designed to help students develop a critical appreciation of the social-structural and social-cultural dimensions of human behavior and beliefs.
They provide the analytic tools and conceptual knowledge to examine and explain social change, various forms of inequality and their consequences, diverse social-cultural identities and experiences, and complex relationships between individual lives and social-cultural forces at local and global scales.
Learning Outcomes
- Describe the major concepts, theoretical perspectives, empirical findings and historical trends in the fields of cultural anthropology and sociology.
- Explain and apply research methods in sociology and cultural anthropology, including research ethics and the analysis and interpretation of quantitative and qualitative data.
- Examine and describe contemporary social problems/issues through social-cultural and social-structural analyses.
- Compare the diversity of human behaviors, beliefs, social structures and ethnocultural experiences at local and global scales.
