Transfers ToUC and CSUCal-GETC Area 4 · IGETC Area 4A · CSU GE Area D1 · CSU GE Area DDescriptionThe course explores how anthropologists study and compare human cultures. Cultural anthropologists seek to understand the broad arc of human experience focusing on a set of central issues: how people around the world make their living (subsistence patterns); how they organize themselves socially, politically and economically; how they communicate; how they relate to each other through family and kinship ties; what they believe about the world (belief systems); how they express themselves creatively (expressive culture); how they make distinction among themselves such as through applying gender, racial and ethnic labels; how they have shaped and been shaped by social inequalities such as colonialism; and how they navigate culture change and processes of globalization that affect us all. Key concepts of power, social justice, equity, ethnocentrism, cultural relativism, race, anti-racism, decolonization, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, kinship, ritual, belief systems, and symbolism will be covered. Ethnographic case studies highlight these similarities and differences, and introduce students to how anthropologists do their work, employ professional anthropological research ethics and apply their perspectives and skills to understand humans around the globe. Students will write a research paper based on original fieldwork in a local community. (C-ID ANTH 120). 