| Course Name | Cultural Anthropology |
| Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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| SOC 205 | Fall | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| Prerequisites | None | |||||
| Course Language | English | |||||
| Course Type | Required | |||||
| Course Level | First Cycle | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | - | |||||
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| Assistant(s) | - | |||||
| Course Objectives | This course aims to provide students with theoretical tools from anthropological studies in analyzing contemporary or historical human groups by focusing on their daily lives. It is expected that students acquire facility in discussing and analyzing social and cultural forms originated in different contexts and attain a deeper understanding in reading theoretical and cultural texts. |
| Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | This course examines the history of ideas that configured the ways in which social scientists engaged in the studies of human communities and their lives, as well as introducing some of the major themes that figure in contemporary discussions. We will look at how anthropologists and scholars in related fields have come to understand “ethnography,” “culture,” “structure,” “symbols” and “time” as the key concepts in analyzing the social lives of human beings. Not only do these frameworks shape understanding of human groups, they have also partaken in the political imaginaries of their time. In this way, anthropology is not a detached science, if there is any such thing, but an engagement to shape the world in accord with the ways social scientists conceive and study the distinctions between normal and deviant, objective and subjective, and cultural and natural. We will focus on some of the most important discussions in the contemporary literature to investigate the political potentialities in understanding human societies. |
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| Core Courses | X |
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| Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
| 1 | Introduction | |
| 2 | Anthropology and Anthropological Perspective | Peoples & Bailey pp. 1-20; 115-130 |
| 3 | Meanings of Culture and Origins of Culture | Peoples & Bailey pp. 20-45 |
| 4 | Modes of Living: Culture and Nature | Peoples & Bailey pp. 133-159 |
| 5 | Exchange & Economic Systems | Peoples & Bailey pp. 166-183 |
| 6 | Marriages & Families | Peoples & Bailey pp. 190-202 |
| 7 | Gender in Comparative Perspective (Movie Screening) | Peoples & Bailey pp. 242-266 |
| 8 | Organization of Political Life | Peoples & Bailey pp. 271-291 |
| 9 | Midterm | |
| 10 | Movie Screening | |
| 11 | Make-up Class: Analyzing Movie Through Anthropological Perspective | |
| 12 | Social Inequality & Stratification | Peoples & Bailey pp. 293-313 |
| 13 | Religion & Worldview | Peoples & Bailey pp. 315-342 |
| 14 | Review of the semester | |
| 15 | Review of the semester | |
| 16 | Final Exam |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | James Peoples and Garrick Bailey. 2014. Humanity: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, |
| Suggested Readings/Materials |
| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation | 1 | 10 |
| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments | 1 | 30 |
| Presentation / Jury | ||
| Project | ||
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exam | ||
| Midterm | 1 | 30 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 30 |
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 3 | 70 |
| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 1 | 30 |
| Total |
| Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | ||
| Study Hours Out of Class | 15 | 3 | 45 |
| Field Work | |||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | |||
| Portfolio | |||
| Homework / Assignments | 1 | 8 | |
| Presentation / Jury | |||
| Project | |||
| Seminar / Workshop | |||
| Oral Exam | |||
| Midterms | 1 | 10 | |
| Final Exams | 1 | 11 | |
| Total | 122 |
| # | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | To have the knowledge of classical and contemporary theories in sociology, and be able to comparatively analyze these theories. | |||||
| 2 | To have the knowledge of main methodological approaches in sociology as well as social research and data analysis methods. | X | ||||
| 3 | To have knowledge in the fields of general sociology, sociology of institutions, social structure and change, and applied sociology. | X | ||||
| 4 | To be able to determine the appropriate methods in the design of the planning stage and conclusion of a sociological project, individually or as part of a team. | X | ||||
| 5 | To be able to diagnose the social dynamics behind personal problems by using sociological imagination. | |||||
| 6 | To be able to define social problems at local, national, and global level, and offer new policies for solutions. | X | ||||
| 7 | To be able to apply commonly-used computer programs for data collection and analysis in sociological research. | X | ||||
| 8 | To be able to develop a socially responsible, scientific and ethical perspective regarding the collection, analysis, interpretation and presentation of data. | X | ||||
| 9 | To be able to analyze different aspects of the social world by drawing on the knowledge produced by other disciplines of the social sciences. | X | ||||
| 10 | To be able to constantly renew herself/himself professionally by following scientific and technological developments in sociology and social research. | |||||
| 11 | To be able to collect sociological data and communicate with sociologists and other social scientists in a foreign language ("European Language Portfolio Global Scale", Level B1). | |||||
| 12 | To be able to speak a second foreign at a medium level of fluency efficiently. | |||||
| 13 | To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise. | |||||
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