Anthropology

090040 Anthropology - Grades 10, 11, 12 (NCAA) 

1 credit

Anthropology is the holistic study of humanity, human behavior, human biology, cultures, and society, in both the present and past, including past human species. In this course we will study specifically Cultural Anthropology and Physical Anthropology. Cultural Anthropology is the study of living peoples, their beliefs, practices, values, ideas, technologies, economies and more. It's the study of how people adapt ot their various geographic environments to live and how they develop their culture. Physical Anthropology is the study of man in all times and places. Physical Anthropology focuses on the development of man from the earliest hominids up through modern man. It also focuses on the spread and settlement of humans and the subsequent development of human culture and civilizations.