Decoding Culture

1.00 credits · Undergraduate

This course introduces students to anthropological methods and theories with a special focus on key theoretical debates and personalities that have shaped the field over time. Engaging students with core readings, projects, and experiential learning applications, this course will enable them to understand and practice elements of anthropological insight. Central topics include race, gender, nation, colonialism, and power. Contemporary issues are contrasted with historical movements to illustrate how anthropologists have worked to decode culture.