ANTH 212 — C Applied and Practicing Anthropology (formerly ANTH 211 C) 3 Units
Formerly ANTH 211 C. Term Hours: 54 lecture Applied anthropology utilizes the principles, methodologies, value systems, and ethics of social scientific inquiry and anthropology in particular to solve real-world contemporary and historical human problems, in both Western and non-Western societies, with a focus on the interwoven nature of of human social, political, and economic institutions. Students will explore the perspectives of applied and practicing anthropology across all subfields of anthropology in a manner which develops the student's analytical capacity and understanding of social science in ways that will be useful to any educated citizen and across any academic discipline. The course will provide students with tools designed to help understand and solve problems arising as a result of culture change, modernization, and globalization. The major arenas of study will include development anthropology and the use of technology in field settings, anthropology and healthcare, anthropology and advocacy, anthropology and law, organizational and business anthropology, and land and resource management, in additional to applied linguistic, archaeological and biological anthropology, and how they relate to core concepts and methods across anthropology and social science in general. The role of anthropologists as practitioners of behavioral science, and relationships between course concepts to a broader understanding of social science will be emphasized. An applied research pro