Instructor Contact Information

 

Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Fully Online

Dena Plemmons, Ph.D.
Adjunct Faculty
San Diego Mesa College


e-mail: dplemmons@ucsd.edu

 

 

Textbook and Course Material Requirements

 

Thinking Like An Anthropologist: A Practical Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
John Omohundro, Ph.D.
ISBN : 0073195804

Classic Readings in Cultural Anthropology
Gary P. Ferraro
ISBN : 9780534612726

Never in Anger
Author : Jean L. Briggs
ISBN : 9780674608283

Purchase Textbooks Online at the SDCCD Online Bookstore
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 WebCT, 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. Readings emphasize 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 not self-paced; it will require approximately five (5) hours of reading (with an average of 65 pages per week) and two (2) hours on the course site per week.

 

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!
    Tuition and Fees 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:
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Type your WebCT ID = 7-digit College Student Identification (CSID) number
Type your Password =  mmddyyyy (birthdate with no hyphens, slashes, or spaces)
For example:  1010101 (CSID number used at registration)
                          06231980 (password for birthdate June 23, 1980

  1.  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
http://www.sdccdonline.net/login