Instructor Contact Information

 

ANTH 103: Intro to Cultural Anthropology
Fully Online
(Note:  Fully Online = no oncampus meetings or exams)
CRN# 77319

Laura T. González
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
San Diego Miramar College

10440
Black Mountain Road, San Diego, CA 92126
(619) 388-7534
Lagonzal@sdccd.edu

 

 

Textbook and Course Material Requirements

 

                                               

REQUIRED READINGS

 

Introducing Cultural Anthropology by Roberta Edwards Lenkeit (2006) 3rd ed. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing.
textbook

 

This book is available at the bookstore and online book stores, where you may be able to find it as a used book. It is also on reserve at the Miramar College library where you may check it out and read it on the premises. We use this text extensively throughout the course, including for all Unit Tests. The textbook is mandatory.

Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman by Marjorie Shostak (2002). Boston: Harvard University Press
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This book is also available at the bookstore and online. It is also on reserve at the Miramar College library where you may check it out and read it on the premises. We use this text for a discussion forum in the middle of the course, and a paper in the second half of the course. This book is also mandatory.


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

 

COURSE SUMMARY

 

This course presents an overview of cultural anthropology using a comparative, cross-cultural approach. Emphasis is placed on the study of how various peoples throughout the world have adapted 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.

 

 

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