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Students learn and apply the research methods and theoretical constructs used by anthropologists to investigate peoples and their social worlds. We offer courses in all four of the anthropological subfields; Archaeology, biological anthropology, linguistic anthropology and cultural anthropology.
Cerritos College Transfer Center - Anthropology. IMPORTANT NOTICE: The requirements listed for the major are subject to change without notice. It is the student’s responsibility to check for the most recent information with a Cerritos College counselor or by consulting ASSIST at www.assist.org.
Identify and define major anthropological models for human behavior, including those in the areas of Kinship Subsistence and economics; Gender and family organization; Culture change; Political organization and social control
Anthropology teaches students the value of the scientific method and cultural relativism, which involves the understanding and appreciation of different societies and their practices and beliefs through cross-cultural comparison.
The class will study those societies in terms of culture growth, through a survey of the basic, learned behavior patterns. Thus the class will study a wide range of cultural phenomena, including material culture, social organization, customs, religions, languages, family life, economics, the arts and literature. Transfer Credit: CSU; UC.
How about the ways in which the world is interconnected? Programs in this LCP reflect an interest in how societies and people change over time and prepare students for a wide range of careers in which understanding human behavior and/or diverse cultures and societies is an asset.
Demonstrate understanding of he relationship of cultural anthropology to other social sciences and to the anthropological sub-disciplines of archaeology, linguistic anthropology, and biological anthropology.
