Social Sciences/Human Services Division

This program is designed to prepare the student to enter a baccalaureate program in Sociology/Anthropology/Social Sciences, with a concentration in Anthropology, on the junior level.

Upon successful completion of this program, the student should be able to:

• Describe the interrelated biological and sociocultural factors that have been proposed to explain the evolution of the human species.
• Analyze the wide range of adaptive responses by societies to differing environmental and societal pressures both past and present.
• Identify and explain how inequalities in wealth, status and power are maintained in human societies.
• Discuss cross-cultural universals and differences in sexual and marriage practices and ideas about beauty.
• Explain the determinates of cross-cultural variation in expected (ideal) and observed (real) behavior.
• Discuss the various formal and informal methods of social control that exist in preindustrial, industrial and postindustrial societies.
• Explain the importance of and differences that exist in both verbal and nonverbal communication in human societies.
• Compare, contrast and evaluate supernatural and scientific explanations for the origin, function and persistence of religious belief and practice in human societies.
• Identify, discuss and contrast the major agents of socialization operating on individuals in non-Western and Western societies.
• Discuss the problems faced by native peoples as they attempt to cope with various aspects of the impact of modern western culture upon their traditional societies.
• Transfer to an accredited college or university.