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ANTH 14
Anthropology of Globalization
Course Description
Students explore the increasing interconnectedness of cultures across time and space through dynamic cross-border global flows of digital information, media images, capital, workers, as well as transnational immigrants, refugees, and tourists. They will assess cross-cultural ethnographies and case studies to examine the impact of modernization and liberalization resulting in global networks of knowledge and capital, accompanied by poverty-alleviating technological, structural, and economic development, and multicultural cosmopolitan centers. Students will also examine the numerous unsustainable development projects, environmental deterioration, economic inequities, weakening of the nation-state, loss of indigenous lifeways, and irreversible cultural change in both Western and non-Western societies.
Student Learning Outcomes
- Apply a scientific, holistic, and multidisciplinary approach to understand the concept of globalization in its historical context.
- Apply global perspectives to analyze processes of cultural change in the twenty-first century in diverse Western and non-Western nations.
- Recognize the value of cultural relativism while evaluating the impact of globalization on transformations in human behavior manifest at both the global as well as the local level.
- Analyze the processes and patterns of globalization using anthropological methodologies such as participant observation and ethnographic research.
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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