1. What is culture and what is its purpose in human society?
2. What elements of culture are common to all people, throughout time?
3. What accounts for the imbalance in modern males? (Book 2, below)
4. How do anthropologists understand culture in theoretical terms?
5. What is the true "nature" of the human species?
6. How did humans live, think, and feel during that long era called prehistory?
7. When, where, why, and how did humans first appear on Earth?
8. How did we get from native culture to modern culture in evolutionary terms?
9. Is global monoculture our inevitable destiny?
10. Do we, as individuals, play any role whatsoever in the course of future events?
The instructor's perception of the uniqueness of an honors course lies not in the quantity of material presented, but in the quality of conceptual understanding that serves as the framework for the course. We will spend more time and effort on the "why's" of culture, rather than the "what's."