Students in the Elementary Education and Early Childhood Education programs who have selected this minor must complete a minimum of 9 hours at the 300-level to meet graduation and certification requirements. The concepts of cultural anthropology applied cross-culturally. Fossils, archaeology, and evidence from living people and animals are pieced together in looking, at our adaptations through time. The evolution of culture in Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean with emphasis on Mexico and Guatemala. Slides and other illustrative materials are used extensively.
Extensive use is made of visual materials to illustrate cultural development.
Survey of the cultures of North American Indian tribes at the time of contact with Europeans. Relationship between culture and the development of the personality. Stresses the ideal personality and how parents, teachers, and others try to develop it. Social and historical survey of American folklore from colonial days to the twentieth century. Includes New England tombstones, the midwestem frontier, cowboys, outlaws, and blues singers.