Las Positas College | Spring 2023 | Class Schedule

23 SPRING 2023 925.424.1000 | [email protected] SPRING 2023 - COURSE LISTINGS Please refer to the onl ine schedule on CLASS-Web to access course section detai ls and the course record numbers (CRNs) for registration. and processes in cultural resource management. Prerequisite: ANTR 2 with a minimum grade of C (May be taken concurrently) ANTR 3 CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY 3.0 Units This course explores how anthropologists study and compare human culture. Cultural anthropologists seek to understand the broad arc of human experience focusing on a set of central issues: how people around the world make their living (subsistence patterns); how they organize themselves socially, politically and economically; how they communicate; how they relate to each other through family and kinship ties; what they believe about the world (belief systems); how they express themselves creatively (expressive culture); how they make distinctions among themselves such as through applying gender, racial and ethnic identity labels; how they have shaped and been shaped by social inequalities such as colonialism; and how they navigate culture change and processes of globalization that affect us all. Ethnographic case studies highlight these similarities and differences, and introduce students to how anthropologists do their work, employ professional anthropological research ethics and apply their perspectives and skills to understand humans around the globe. Strongly Recommended: Eligibility for ENG 1A. ANTR 4 LANGUAGE AND CULTURE 3.0 Units This introductory course serves as a foundation for understanding language from an anthropological perspective, addressing such core questions as how, what, when, where, why and with whom we communicate. This course surveys three core areas in linguistic anthropology --structural linguistics: phonetics, phonology, morphology, and syntax, as well as the biocultural basis of language; historical linguistics: origins and evolution/change, dialects, and language families; and sociocultural linguistics: language acquisition in cultural context, emphasizing the relationship between language and culture, and issues of language conservation and loss. Strongly Recommended: Eligibility for ENG 1A ANTR 12 MAGIC/RELIGION/WITCHCRAFT/HEAL 3.0 Units Cross-cultural perspectives on spirituality, religious practice, myth, ancestor beliefs, witchcraft and the variety of religious rituals and practitioners found in the cultures of the world. Examination of the cosmologies of different cultures through the anthropological perspective. Emphasis is placed on how knowledge of the religious practices and beliefs of others can help us to understand the multicultural world in which we live. Comparison of the ways in which diverse cultures confront the large and fundamental questions of existence: those dealing with the meaning life, birth and death, and with the relationship of humans to each other and to their universe. Strongly Recommended: Eligibility for ENG 1A/1AEX ANTR 13 INTRO TO FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY 3.0 Units Introductory course in the application of physical anthropology to the medico-legal process with an emphasis on the identification of human skeletal remains. Includes basic human osteology and odontology , assessment of age at time of death, sex, ancestry, trauma analysis, pathology, and general physical characteristics including height and weight based upon minimal skeletal remains. Estimation of time since death, crime scene analysis, animal scavenging, and identification procedures. Strongly Recommended: Eligibility for ENG 1A Scan here to visit the current Spring 2023 class schedule online ART - HISTORY ARHS 1 INTRO TO ART HISTORY 3.0 Units Architecture, sculpture, painting, photography and design in relation to human inventiveness in providing for material and aesthetic needs. This course provides a general introduction to art that offers a look at works of art through the study of theory, terminology, themes, design principles, media, techniques, with an introduction to art that offers a look at works of art through the study of theory, terminology, themes, design principles, media, techniques, with an introduction to the visual arts across time and diverse cultures. 3 hours lecture. Strongly Recommended: Eligibility for ENG 1A ARHS 2 ART OF THE ANCIENT AMERICAS 3.0 Units Survey of visual culture within the historical context of and South America up to European contact. Strongly Recommended: ENG 1A with a minimum grade of C ARHS 4 WESTERN ART HISTORY- ANCIENT 3.0 Units History of Western art from prehistoric times through Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Aegean, Greek, Etruscan, Roman, Early Christian, Byzantine, Medieval, Romanesque, and Gothic civilizations. Strongly Recommended: Eligibility for ENG 1A ARHS 5 WESTERN ART HIST- RENAISSANCE 3.0 Units History of Western art from Early Renaissance, High Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, 20th Century developments of American art. Strongly Recommended: Eligibility for ENG 1A STUDENTS CAN TAKE ART HISTORY CLASSES IN ANY ORDER ARHS 7 MODERN ART HISTORY 3.0 Units Presents an overview of the art movements, artists and issues of Modernism to Contemporary art. This includes art from the mid-nineteenth century, through the twentieth century and contemporary art. Incorporates the social, political, and aesthetic context of the time. Strongly Recommended: ENG 1A with a minimum grade of C STUDENTS CAN TAKE ART HISTORY CLASSES IN ANY ORDER. ART ARTS 2A INTRODUCTION TO DRAWING 3.0 Units Introduction to principles, elements, and practices of drawing, employing a wide range of subject matter and drawing media. Focus on perceptually based drawing, observational skills, technical abilities, and creative responses to materials and subject matter. Estimated cost of supplies $100

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