Peggy Scully
Phone: (209) 954-5540
Location: Shima 235
Email: pscully@deltacollege.edu
Units: 3
This course is a survey of various contemporary cultures which seeks to promote an awareness of cross-cultural uniformity and diversity. The basic concepts in cultural anthropology such as kinship, economic, political systems, and symbolic organization including religion, ritual, and folklore are discussed along with issues of social inequality and culture change. |
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Units: 3 This course is an introduction to physical evolution of human from the earliest hominid forms to modern groups. Drawing from biological, geological, and anthropological data, the course examines the various forces acting on evolutionary primate development. The course also examines human physical variations in contemporary populations and discusses the problem of racial classification. (UC, CSU, CAN ANTH 2) |
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Units: 1 This course is designed as a laboratory course which supplements ANTHR 2 (Anthropology 2). Students become familiar with the process used in identifying and analyzing human skeletal remains the physical evidence used in the study of primate evolution including fossilization, geological time scale and archaeological reconstruction of prehistoric activities, comparative osteology of non-human primates, primate behavior, paleoanthropology, and the development of stone tool technologies. (UC, CSU) |
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Units: 3 This course is an introduction to the study of language in theory and practice. Students explore what is known about human language, its uniqueness, its structure, its use, its diversity, and its universality. An effort is made to analyze the relationship between language, culture, and social levels. (UC, CSU) |
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Units: 3 This course is a comparative study of selected native American Indians and cultures from the Arctic to Panama, utilizing ethnographical and archaeological materials. (UC, CSU) |
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Units: 3 This course is a survey of the development of archaeology as an anthropological study, with particular emphasis on the contributions of archaeology toward supplementing man's understanding of the development of human culture. The objectives, methods, and techniques of modern archaeology are combined with a survey of major archaeological sites and cultures. |
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Units: 1 This course is a beginning applied archaeology course which offers students opportunity to do field and or laboratory research. The field work includes site survey and excavation. The laboratory work emphasizes treatment, classification, and initial analysis of artifacts and data recovered through excavations. (UC, CSU) |
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Units: 1 This course is a beginning applied archaeology course which offers students opportunity to do field and or laboratory research. The field work includes site survey and excavation. The laboratory work emphasizes treatment, classification, and initial analysis of artifacts and data recovered through excavations. (UC, CSU) |
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Units: 1 - 2 This course is designed to offer instruction in one of the specialized areas of anthropology not already covered by the existing curricula. (UC, CSU) |
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Units: 1 - 2 This course is designed to allow qualified students qualified to do advanced work in the field. This course includes research, directed reading, field work, or other advanced study. The course may be repeated for a maximum of 4 units. (UC, CSU) |
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Units: 0.5 - 3 This course is designed to offer instruction in one or more of the specialized areas of anthropology not covered by the existing curriculum. Units earned in this course do not count toward an associate degree. |