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Oct 15, 2024
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ANTH 214 - Native American Traditions Credits: 3 Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Description: This course provides a survey of Native American cultures from both Native and non-Native perspectives. Social, economic, religious and artistic traditions will be examined. Course content includes a review of prehistoric origins as well as an evaluation of the effects of centuries of contact with people from Europe, Africa and Asia.
Prerequisites: None. Corequisites: None. Recommended: ANTH 112 or ANTH 201
Course Category: Liberal Arts | Social Science This course counts toward Schoolcraft’s General Education Requirements. This course counts toward a Michigan Transfer Agreement General Education Requirement.
This Course is Typically Offered: Winter Only Check Course Availability
Course Competencies
- Apply the four subfields of anthropology to the study of Native Americans.
- Evaluate ethnocentric bias and examples of cultural relativism.
- Illustrate the concepts of culture, culture as adaption and culture area.
- Assess the archaeological theories and creation stories about the origins of first Americans.
- Discriminate between the etic and emic perspectives on the traditional culture history of Native Americans.
- Outline the record of key U. S. government policies pertaining to American Indians.
- Explore active construction of culture and responses to change.
- Determine how social and economic structures by culture area are adaptations to shared human needs.
- Explore major issues of importance to contemporary Native Americans.
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