Contemporary Theory

Contemporary Theory
Important current theoretical frameworks in anthropology.
ANTHR
203
 Hours3.0 Credit, 3.0 Lecture, 0.0 Lab
 PrerequisitesANTHR 101
 TaughtFall
 ProgramsContaining ANTHR 203
Course Outcomes

Contemporary Theory

  • Students will develop an enhanced understanding of human beings and human being through the paradigms of the most important theorists and theories applicable to anthropology and archaeology.
  • Students will begin their preparation to write a theoretically informed senior thesis and to eventually produce an accurate and insightful interpretation of another system of thought and tradition of social practice.
  • Students will be able to describe the positions, ideas, and approaches utilized to analyze human artifacts and institutions.
  • Students will demonstrate the ability to think soundly and critically, to communicate effectively, and to write a clear and convincing essay.

Human Cultural Diversity

Students will develop an enhanced understanding of human beings and being human through course assignments.

Research Skills and Methods

Students will be prepared to write a theoretically informed senior these, to eventually produce an accurate and insightful inerpretation of another system of thought and tradition of social practice through course assignments. These assignments will also assist each student in being able to describe the positions, ideas, and approaches that will most help he/she in making sense of human artifacts and institutions, of particular activities, events, roles, places, and other objects.

Research Skills and Methods

Students will demonstrate the abilities to think soundly, to communicate effectively, and to write a clear and convincing essay.