In Anthropology, you can explore many topics, including human biology, health and evolution, food trade and sustainability, social networks and the arts, technology from the stone age to the information age, global cultures and indigenous heritage, social media and endangered languages, and international human rights.
Here are four examples of great courses that are frequently offered:
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Anthropology provides creative insights and solutions for tackling business problems often overlooked by more data-driven approaches. From the practical (e.g., how to design a user-friendly digital platform) to the ethical (e.g., what are the responsibilities of a corporation to society), this course explores how practitioners and companies engage anthropology to study, critique, and/or meet the needs of the private sector.
Introduction to the goals, methods, and theories that archaeologists use to learn about the past. The pursuit and interpretation of archaeological evidence are explored by reviewing case studies from across the globe and diverse time periods. Topics include food and subsistence, culture change, social life, political economies, and archaeological ethics.
Introduction to the natural history of humans (Homo sapiens). Includes coverage of evolutionary theory and its relevance for understanding contemporary human biology, genetics and inheritance, description and analysis of human biological variation and adaptation, human-environment biocultural interactions, similarities and differences between humans and non-human primates, and the fossil record for primate and human evolution.
An introduction to the field of linguistic anthropology, the social scientific study of language. Examines how languages reflect cultures, how language use reproduces culture(s), how linguistic categories relate to categories of thought, and how linguistic variation both reflects and shapes social categories such as gender, class, race, and ethnicity.
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