Cultural Anthropology: Distance Learning
Anthropology 2

Brief Course Description
This is an online course in Cultural Anthropology. It is done entirely on the internet. All course work is assigned, submitted, graded, and returned via the internet. No visits to campus are necessary: registration is done electronically, as is enrollment, coursework, testing, grading, and the assignment of the final grade. Students interested in this course should have a working knowledge of basic computer systems and the internet.

The course is the equivalent of the classroom version of Cultural Anthropology. Weekly communication with other students and with the instructor will ensure timely movement through the coursework. Assignments, quizzes, exams, and projects will stimulate involvement in the course material.

Students who successfully complete the course will:

1. understand the origins and development of the human species;
2. identify variations in social customs unique to individual cultures;
3. compare and contrast different societies in scientific terms;
4. understand the uniqueness of human culture and behavior;
5. identify and describe characteristics of human culture;
6. locate and discuss the most important cultural groups on a world map;
7. explain the importance of culture to the human species;
8. discuss various scientific theories as to human cultural variation today;
9. discuss the importance of kinship and the family to human society;
10. trace the evolution of human culture from its beginning to the present; and
11. comprehend the structure and function of various other aspects of human culture such as art, politics, economics, religion, social stratification, subsistence, and other topics.