Recent SemestersFall 2026, Summer 2026, Spring 2026, Fall 2025, Spring 2025Class SizeNot publishedCredits3PrerequisiteNone. � � � � Anthropology 149 COSUMNES RIVER COLLEGE 2025-2026 Official Catalog Advisory: Eligibility for ENGL C1000 (formerly known as ENGWR 300) or the equivalent skills demonstrated through the assessment process. Transfers ToUC and CSUCal-GETC Area 4 · IGETC Area 4A · CSU GE Area D1DescriptionANTH 313 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology: Medical Focus Units: 3 Hours: 54 hours LEC Prerequisite: None. � � � � Anthropology 149 COSUMNES RIVER COLLEGE 2025-2026 Official Catalog Advisory: Eligibility for ENGL C1000 (formerly known as ENGWR 300) or the equivalent skills demonstrated through the assessment process. Transferable: CSU; UC General Education: Local GE L4; Cal-GETC Area 4 C-ID: C-ID ANTH 120 This course is an introduction to the cultures and customs of human groups throughout the world with the aim of understanding how cultures function based on their world views. Topics include subsistence methods, religious belief systems, linguistics, economics, political organization, kinship, gender, marriage and family systems, social stratification, and globalization. This course emphasizes the intersection of culture and medical practices, perspectives on healing and health, and the notion that biology and culture matter equally in the human experience of disease. Through ethnographic examples the course stresses anthropological concepts such as culture, cultural relativism, holism, ethnocentrism, cross- cultural comparisons, world view, culture change, fieldwork, ethics and theory. This Introduction to Cultural Anthropology course is highly recommended for students pursuing degrees in the health fields. This class is not intended for students who have already completed Anthropology 310. A field trip may be required at the discretion of the instructor. 