SOC131 INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY I
| Course Code: | 2320131 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 4 (4.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | Sociology |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Assoc.Prof.Dr. SMITA TEWARI JASSAL |
| Offered Semester: | Fall Semesters. |
Course Objectives
Although anthropology had built a reputation for producing the knowledge of “other” people’s culture, thoughts and behaviors; the discipline already made its home-coming several decades ago. Since then, anthropological perspectives and methods have gradually become of importance to understand and compete with highly diversified socio-cultural encounters in the contemporary world. Today, the Kula traders of New Guiana can help us to understand financial markets and crises (Keir Martin, Guardian – 23.04.2012). For this reason, developing an anthropological understanding would be critical for anyone who would like to participate in global society.
Course Content
Biological structure and its relationship to group life in human and non-human primates. Biologic and cultural evolution of the human species. Relationship between the human species, nature and technology, and between environment, modes of subsistence and social organization. The structure of human language
Course Learning Outcomes
This course offers a general overview of the discipline of Anthropology with a particular focus on the socio-cultural field. In doing so, the course aims to show how anthropological concepts and methods can be applied to various situations around the world within the framework of cross-cultural understanding and intercultural competence. Therefore, the course also aims to encourage students to struggle against ethnocentric views and prejudices.
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | To correlate sociology and other social sciences | ✔ | |||
| 2 | To interpret knowledge produced by society from a sociological perspective | ✔ | |||
| 3 | To renew and improve their accumulation by following up-to-date publications and research programs in their fields | ✔ | |||
| 4 | To be open to occupational novelties in order to understand social change | ✔ | |||
| 5 | To produce original solutions within and outside the discipline and in interdisciplinary levels | ✔ | |||
| 6 | To know and implement the ethics of sociological research | ✔ | |||
| 7 | To be aware of social, environmental, and economic effects in the areas where sociological approaches are appropriated | ✔ | |||
| 8 | To use and transfer the accumulation of sociological knowledge in an interdisciplinary way | ✔ | |||
| 9 | To understand social structures and dynamics by correlating the past, the present and the future | ✔ | |||
| 10 | To connect social theories of knowledge and social practices | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution