Culture and Communication

5 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Required as preparation for both bachelor’s degrees. Introduction to study of communication from anthropological perspective. Formal linguistic methods compared with ethnographically oriented methods focused on context-bound temporal unfolding of communicative activities. Topics include language in everyday life and ritual events, socialization, literacy, multilingualism, miscommunication, political discourse, and art-making as cultural activity. P/NP or letter grading.