An exploratory course dealing with our world of the 90's and the coming of the 21st Century. Students will help decide major topics to be studied. The intent of this course is to provide the student with a basic knowledge and understanding of different cultural and geographical regions in our world today. This course will be taught in a two year cycle thereby providing students the opportunity to enroll in Global Studies for 2 years. Eastern cultures to include China, Japan, India and the Middle East will constitute one course of study.
Many factors influence the development of any culture.
Some of the factors to be examined are geography, history, including conflict, religious philosophy, and political and economic development. We hope to show that cultures do not stay the same, that change is indeed inherent. The study of differences and similarities, both biological and cultural, in human populations. Anthropology is concerned with typical biological and cultural characteristics of human populations in all time periods and in all parts of the world, including archaeology and ethnology.