Course Catalog Information (24-25)
ANTH 5
Magic, Science and Religion
Course Description
Introduction to the analysis of systems of observation, deduction, reasoning, belief, and practical action across human culture past and present. Issues and topics include symbol, myth, and narrative; ritual and altered states of consciousness; specialist practitioners; healing, illness, and death; and relations between religion, science, politics, intercultural encounter, and historical change.
Student Learning Outcomes
- Students will apply a scientific, holistic and a multidisciplinary approach to understand and analyze human behavior.
- Students will recognize the value of cultural relativism and the validity of systems of religious and scientific thought and practice as adaptive strategies to the challenges of physical and social environments.
- Students will analyze the diversity of religious and scientific systems and explain how they arise, function, and change in the contexts of politics, history, and intercultural encounter They will also recognize underlying similarities between these systems.
Course Details
- Units
- 4 Units
- Hours
- Weekly Lecture Hours: 4
- Weekly Lab Hours: 0
- Gen Ed
- General Education Class
- Program Status
- Program Applicable
- Credit
- Credit - Degree Applicable
- Transferability
- Transferable to both UC and CSU
- Grading Method
- Letter Grading
Requisite and Advisory
- Advisory(ies)
- EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or ESL 5
- Prerequisite(s)
- Corequisite(s)
Limitations on Enrollment and Entrance Skills
- Limitation(s) on Enrollment
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