In somewhat more concrete terms, there is not one culture, but many. The whole of society is then equivalent to the structure of their family. Unfortunately, most high schools don't teach anthropology, and so most of you don't have a very accurate idea of what anthropology is all about. For that matter, most of the faculty in other departments at CSUH don't have a very clear idea, either. In lectures I will tell you.
Anthropology is a fairly well established discipline.
Some of the means by which anthropologists go about their work have been established much earlier, some are still evolving. I will try to represent the best and most important of both. I will try to keep my lectures confined to our Tuesday sessions, and leave Thursdays to thinking and practicing anthropology. Since it is unlikely that you know much about what anthropologist do, what their goals are, what their basic data is and how they get it, or how they think, I will have to spend a lot of time cluing you in on this. In that sense it is a basic course in anthropology.