Transfers ToUC and CSUCal-GETC Area 4 · IGETC Area 4A · CSU GE Area D1DescriptionThis course explores how anthropologists study and compare human culture. Cultural anthropologists seek to understand the broad arc of human experience focusing on a set of central issues, including: subsistence patterns; social, political, and economic organization; patterns of communication and creative expression; familial and kinship relations; belief systems; gender, racial and ethnic identity labels; the developmental influence of social inequality; and internal culture change resulting from external forces. Ethnographic case studies and professional anthropological research ethics are employed to introduce students to the tools used to understand humans around the globe. 