California Community Colleges System Courses

Physical Anthropology Laboratory

This course is a laboratory course in which the students apply and practice the scientific methods, techniques, and procedures used by physical anthropologists to understand human evolution, non-human

• California Community Colleges System
• 11 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Paid Course

Cultural Anthropology

This course introduces the study of human cultures, concepts, methods, and theories used in the comparative study of socio-cultural systems with an emphasis on understanding and appreciating human div

• California Community Colleges System
• 11 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Paid Course

Introduction to Archaeology

Introduction to the field of archaeology within the discipline of anthropology including discussion of scientific methods, the history of archaeology, field and laboratory methods used in the analysis

• California Community Colleges System
• 11 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Paid Course

World Prehistory

Worldwide patterns of cultural transformation, from the earliest foraging societies to the development of agrarian states. The prehistoric interpretation of these changes based upon the comparison of

• California Community Colleges System
• 11 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Paid Course

Magic, Science and Religion

The course introduces the analysis of systems of observation, deduction, reasoning, belief, and practical action across human culture, past and present. Issues and topics include symbol, myth, and nar

• California Community Colleges System
• 11 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Paid Course

Linguistic Anthropology

A cross-cultural investigation into the relationship between language and culture: language as a human attribute; language structure, historical origins, diversification, and change; gender and cultur

• California Community Colleges System
• 11 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Paid Course

Introduction to Forensic Anthropology

An introduction to forensic anthropology which is an applied field of physical anthropology. A comparative and holistic approach is used to interpret human skeletal remains and determine the age, sex,

• California Community Colleges System
• 11 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Paid Course

Medical Anthropology: Methods and Practice

Medical anthropology seeks to understand how health, illness and healing practices are culturally constructed and mediated. Students will investigate global, cross-cultural and local issues related to

• California Community Colleges System
• 11 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Paid Course

Anthropology of Globalization

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 transn

• California Community Colleges System
• 11 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Paid Course

Anthropology of Art

The debunking of myths regarding race, gender, and human aggression frame investigations of past and current issues that are made visible in painting, sculpture, and graphic design of African American

• California Community Colleges System
• 11 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Paid Course

Introduction to the Visual Arts

This course explores visual imagery throughout the world, for the purpose of refining visual literacy skills. Works of art will be studied by means of formal analysis and medium, the social experience

• California Community Colleges System
• 11 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Paid Course

History of Art: Europe from Prehistory through Early Christianity

This course provides an introduction to the discipline of art history through an analysis of images, objects, and works of architecture produced from the prehistoric period of European history through

• California Community Colleges System
• 11 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Paid Course

History of Art: Europe During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

This course introduces the discipline of art history through an analysis of images, objects, and works of architecture produced from approximately 600 through 1600 C.E., including discussion of Islami

• California Community Colleges System
• 11 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Paid Course

History of Art: Europe from the Baroque Period Through Impressionism

This course is an introduction to the discipline of art history through an analysis of images, objects, and works of architecture produced in Europe from c. 1600 through the 1880s, including a discuss

• California Community Colleges System
• 11 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Paid Course

History of Art: Europe and the United States from Post-Impressionism to the Present

This course is an introduction to the discipline of art history through an analysis of images, objects, and works of architecture produced from the 1880s to the present by a diverse range of artists i

• California Community Colleges System
• 11 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Paid Course