Bachelor Degree Courses

• Introduce self and explain course expectations.
• Integrate the course concepts through interaction with other Learners and your Mentor.
• Access information efficiently and effectively.
• Evaluate information critically and competently.
• Practices ethical behavior in regard to information and information technology.
• Describe the major subfields of anthropology.
• Illustrate how anthropology is a scientific discipline.
• Classify the evidence for geological evolution.
• Explain how new species evolve from existing ones.
• Define the characteristics of culture.
• Describe the taxonomic system of classifying and naming species.
• Compare the different types of primates and the traits that distinguish them.
• Summarize what you know about the evolution of primates.
• Compare human sexual behavior to that of most mammals.
• Define what scientific evidence refutes the existence of biological human races.
• Measure what we know about the social organization of non human primates.
• Compare the different types of marriages we find in human societies.
• Define the features of the human communication system.
• Compare the variable features of religious systems.
• Describe the processes that bring about change within a cultural system.
• Discuss the ways culture and biology interacts to produce human behavior.
• Explain how anthropological knowledge can be applied to modern concerns.
• Define the status of our species today.

· What is anthropology?
· Genetics and evolution
· Primate evolution: from early primates to hominoids
· The origins of culture and the emergence of homo
· The Upper Paleolithic world
· Origins of food production and settled life
· Origins of cities and states
· Human variation and adaptation
· The concept of culture
· Social stratification and economic systems
· Political life: social order and disorder
· Associations and interest groups
· Psychology and culture
· Applied and practicing anthropology
· Global social problems