Nov 15, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

ANTH 145 - Language and Culture in Community: Linguistics and Cultural Anthropology

4.00 credit hours
An introduction to the anthropological subfields of cultural anthropology and linguistics. Consideration of human cultural and linguistic diversity. Introduction to theories that attempt to explain human cultural and linguistic diversity and commonality. Exploration of identity, economy, political life, religion, kinship, phonology, morphology, syntax, sociolinguistics, linguistic and cultural change and continuity in global context. Intensive examination of the ethnography of a particular community designated by the professor.

Cardinal Directions Designation(s): Social Sciences, Global Understanding.
iCon(s): Being Human, Experiencing Place.


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