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Instructor Contact Information
 
  ANTH103 - Intro To Cultural Anthropology
  Mode of Delivery:  Partially Online
  (Partially Online = Has at least one class meeting on campus)
 
 

Dena Kay Plemmons

San Diego Mesa College
7250 Mesa College Drive
San Diego, CA 92111-4998
dplemmons@ucsd.edu

 

 

This course is primarily an on-line course, but there are five (5) in class sessions --  you must be able to attend each session. Those dates/times are:

 

Tuesday 8/24, Tuesday 9/28, Tuesday 10/12, Tuesday 11/9 AND Tuesday 11/30, from 6:35 -9:45 pm

 

Location TBA.

 

You should not take this course if you can't be at all 5 in-class sessions.

 
 
Textbook and Course Material Requirements
 
  1. Cultural Anthropology: A Perspective on the Human Condition, 7e
    Author: Emily Schultz, Robert Lavenda
    ISBN: 0-195-33850-2
  2. Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
    Author: Anne Fadiman
    ISBN: 0-374-52564-1
  3. Classic Readings in Anthropology
    Author: Gary Ferraro
    ISBN: 0-534-61272-5


See District Online Schedule for official list of required and optional textbooks and materials for this class.
Purchase Textbooks Online at the SDCCD Online Bookstore

 
Hardware and Software Requirements
 

Hardware and Software:
To successfully complete this online course, you will be required to meet the minimum hardware and software requirements. View Hardware and Software Requirements.

Internet Browser:
You must use a supported Internet browser in order to successfully work in Blackboard Vista, the online course management system for this course. To see a list of supported Internet browsers, click here.

 
Course Description
 

This course presents an overview of cultural anthropology using a comparative, cross-cultural approach. Emphasis is placed on the study of how various peoples around the world have adapted to their environments and developed behaviors to meet their biological, economic, psychological, social and political needs. This course is designed for students planning to take advanced courses in Social and/or Behavioral Sciences or students majoring in Anthropology. (FT). Associate Degree Credit & transfer to CSU and/or private colleges and universities. UC Transfer Course List. CAN ANTH 4 = ANTH 103 (City,Mesa,Miramar).

 

 
Application and Registration Information
 

REGISTRATION DIRECTIONS:

  1. Complete Online Application (for new SDCCD students). Go to Student Web Services
  2. Receive registration appointment and instructions by email or mail.
  3. Register online at the Reg-e, our online registration system.
  4. Make sure that you pay your tuition so that you don't lose your registration!   Fees and Tuition Information.
  5. Order textbooks online. Visit our online bookstore.
  6. After completion of registration on Reg-e, and several days prior to the start of the semester, you will receive an email with course login instructions. If you don't receive an email please go to http://www.sdccdonline.net and login on the first day of class as follows:

    Type your Blackboard Vista Username = 7-digit College Student Identification (CSID) number
    Type your Password =  mmddyyyy (your birthdate with no hyphens, slashes, or spaces)

    For example:  1010101 (CSID number used at registration)
                           06231980 (password for the birthdate June 23, 1980 )
     
  7. If this course is closed, please login to Reg-e to be placed on a waitlist. If the waitlist is full, you will not be able to add your name to the waitlist.

You will not be able to login to your online course until the first day of the semester!!!
You must login to your online course on the first day of the session to avoid your enrollment being dropped.
Follow the login instructions at www.sdccdonline.net/login.htm

 
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