{ "college": "antelope-valley-college", "edition": "2026-2027", "code": "ANTH", "name": "Anthropology", "sourceUrl": "https://avc.elumenapp.com/catalog/2026-27/department/anthropology", "courses": [ { "code": "ANTH 101", "subject": "ANTH", "number": "101", "title": "Introduction to Biological Anthropology", "units": "3", "hours": "54 lecture hours, 54 contact hours total", "cid": [ "ANTH 110" ], "transfer": [ "CSU", "UC" ], "description": "This is an introductory course from a scientific perspective about human evolution and human biological diversity. General emphasis is placed on scientific explanations for human origins, modern human diversity, and the place of our species in the natural world. Specifically, emphasis is placed on the field of anthropology, the scientific method, the biological processes involved in organic evolution, fossil evidence for human evolution, interpretations of the fossil record, physical and behavioral characteristics of primates, human genetics, modern human variation, biocultural evolution, the biological significance of “race,” and interpretations of the archaeological evidence for the origin of culture.", "notes": [ "Applies to the associate degree or certificates (AVC)" ], "offered": [ { "term": "fall-2026", "name": "Fall 2026", "sections": 14, "open": 14, "url": "/c/antelope-valley-college/schedule/fall-2026/anth/#anth-101", "subject": "ANTH" }, { "term": "winter-2027", "name": "Winter 2027", "sections": 4, "open": 4, "url": "/c/antelope-valley-college/schedule/winter-2027/anth/#anth-101", "subject": "ANTH" }, { "term": "spring-2027", "name": "Spring 2027", "sections": 14, "open": 14, "url": "/c/antelope-valley-college/schedule/spring-2027/anth/#anth-101", "subject": "ANTH" } ] }, { "code": "ANTH 101H", "subject": "ANTH", "number": "101H", "title": "Biological Anthropology Honors", "units": "3", "hours": "54 lecture hours, 54 contact hours total", "cid": [ "ANTH 110" ], "transfer": [], "description": "This honors course, intended for students in the Honors Transfer Program, is an introductory course from a scientific perspective about human evolution and human biological diversity. General emphasis is placed on scientific explanations for human origins, modern human diversity, and the place of our species in the natural world. Specifically, emphasis is placed on the field of anthropology, the scientific method, the biological processes involved in organic evolution, fossil evidence for human evolution, interpretations of the fossil record, physical and behavioral characteristics of primates, human genetics, modern human variation, biocultural evolution, the biological significance of “race,” and interpretations of the archaeological evidence for the origin of culture. The honors course provides more content and requires greater intensity and depth of study than the non-honors class. (C-ID: ANTH 110)(UC, CSU, AVC) Note: Students may take either ANTH 101 Biological Anthropology or ANTH 101H Biological Anthropology Honors. Duplicate credit will not be awarded.", "notes": [], "offered": [ { "term": "spring-2027", "name": "Spring 2027", "sections": 1, "open": 1, "url": "/c/antelope-valley-college/schedule/spring-2027/anth/#anth-101h", "subject": "ANTH" } ] }, { "code": "ANTH 101L", "subject": "ANTH", "number": "101L", "title": "Biological Anthropology Lab", "units": "1", "hours": "54 lab hours, 54 contact hours total", "corequisite": "Completion of or concurrent enrollment in ANTH 101 or ANTH 101H. This is an introductory laboratory course that investigates human evolution and human biological diversity from a scientific perspective.", "cid": [ "ANTH 115L" ], "transfer": [ "CSU", "UC" ], "description": "This includes human genetics, human and non-human primate anatomy and behavior, primate/hominin fossil record, and modern human variation. A field trip may be required.", "notes": [ "Applies to the associate degree or certificates (AVC)" ], "offered": [ { "term": "fall-2026", "name": "Fall 2026", "sections": 6, "open": 5, "url": "/c/antelope-valley-college/schedule/fall-2026/anth/#anth-101l", "subject": "ANTH" }, { "term": "spring-2027", "name": "Spring 2027", "sections": 7, "open": 7, "url": "/c/antelope-valley-college/schedule/spring-2027/anth/#anth-101l", "subject": "ANTH" } ] }, { "code": "ANTH 102", "subject": "ANTH", "number": "102", "title": "Introduction to Cultural Anthropology", "units": "3", "hours": "54 lecture hours, 54 contact hours total", "cid": [ "ANTH 120" ], "transfer": [ "CSU", "UC" ], "description": "This course explores how anthropologists study and compare human culture. Cultural anthropologists seek to understand the broad arc of human experience focusing on a set of central issues: how people around the world make their living (subsistence patterns); how they organize themselves socially, politically and economically; how they communicate; how they relate to each other through family and kinship ties; what they believe about the world (belief systems); how they express themselves creatively (expressive culture); how they make distinctions among themselves such as through applying gender, racial and ethnic identity labels; how they have shaped and been shaped by social inequalities such as colonialism; and how they navigate culture change and processes of globalization that affect us all. Ethnographic case studies highlight these similarities and differences, and introduce students to how anthropologists do their work, employ professional anthropological research ethics and apply their perspectives and skills to understand humans around the globe. An appreciation of the significance of cultural diversity is stressed, as well as understanding ethnocentrism as a barrier to cross-cultural understanding. All of this provides an important basis for discussions of cultural and ethnic diversity within our own society as well as around the world.", "notes": [ "Applies to the associate degree or certificates (AVC)" ], "offered": [ { "term": "fall-2026", "name": "Fall 2026", "sections": 4, "open": 4, "url": "/c/antelope-valley-college/schedule/fall-2026/anth/#anth-102", "subject": "ANTH" }, { "term": "winter-2027", "name": "Winter 2027", "sections": 1, "open": 1, "url": "/c/antelope-valley-college/schedule/winter-2027/anth/#anth-102", "subject": "ANTH" }, { "term": "spring-2027", "name": "Spring 2027", "sections": 4, "open": 4, "url": "/c/antelope-valley-college/schedule/spring-2027/anth/#anth-102", "subject": "ANTH" } ] }, { "code": "ANTH 103", "subject": "ANTH", "number": "103", "title": "Archaeology and World Prehistory", "units": "3", "hours": "54 lecture hours, 54 contact hours total", "cid": [], "transfer": [ "CSU", "UC" ], "description": "This course is an introduction to the archaeological record documenting the evolution of human culture from the earliest stone tool makers to the establishment and collapse of the world’s first major civilizations. Archaeological theories, techniques and methodologies are introduced as the means for understanding these developments. Covers societies from around the world including the Americas and Asia to Africa and Europe. Topics studied include hunter-gatherer adaptations, the domestication of plants and animals, the emergence of social complexity, the origins of writing, and the development of cities and states.", "notes": [ "Applies to the associate degree or certificates (AVC)" ], "offered": [ { "term": "fall-2026", "name": "Fall 2026", "sections": 2, "open": 2, "url": "/c/antelope-valley-college/schedule/fall-2026/anth/#anth-103", "subject": "ANTH" } ] }, { "code": "ANTH 110", "subject": "ANTH", "number": "110", "title": "Latin American & Caribbean Cultures", "units": "3", "hours": "54 lecture hours, 54 contact hours total", "cid": [], "transfer": [ "CSU", "UC" ], "description": "The objective of this course is to introduce students to the peoples and cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean from prehistoric times to the present. Students apply the holistic approach of anthropology to recognize the diverse cultures present before European conquest such as the Taíno, Maya, Mexica (Aztec), and Inca. This approach further addresses contact with Europeans, resistance to colonialism, race and ethnicity, poverty, foodways, gender and sexuality, religion, health, migration, and transnational communities. Attention will be given to the diasporic social and political experiences of Latinos and Afro-Latinos as differentiated from dominant and other groups in the United States. Issues of racism and sexism will be explicitly covered.", "notes": [ "Applies to the associate degree or certificates (AVC)" ], "offered": [] }, { "code": "ANTH 112", "subject": "ANTH", "number": "112", "title": "Native North Americans", "units": "3", "hours": "54 lecture hours, 54 contact hours total", "cid": [], "transfer": [ "CSU", "UC" ], "description": "This course provides a general survey of the origins and development of Native American cultures in North America from antiquity to the present examining their social, cultural, political, and economic history. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the course examines applicable methods and theories to understand the rich and diverse cultural systems encountered by Europeans in the sixteenth century, the impact of contact on both Native and Euroamerican cultures, and the contemporary realities of indigenous peoples. Students are expected to develop a substantial general knowledge of Native American peoples, their cultural history, resistance, agency, sovereignty, and diversity. A field trip may be required.", "notes": [ "Applies to the associate degree or certificates (AVC)" ], "offered": [] }, { "code": "ANTH 112H", "subject": "ANTH", "number": "112H", "title": "Native North Americans Honors", "units": "3", "hours": "54 lecture hours, 54 contact hours total", "cid": [], "transfer": [], "description": "This honors course, intended for students in the Honors Transfer Program, provides a general survey of the origins and development of Native American cultures in North America from antiquity to the present examining their social, cultural, political, and economic history. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the course examines applicable methods and theories to understand the rich and diverse cultural systems encountered by Europeans in the sixteenth century, the impact of contact on both Native and Euroamerican cultures, and the contemporary realities of indigenous peoples. Students are expected to develop a substantial general knowledge of Native American peoples, their cultural history, resistance, agency, sovereignty, and diversity. The honors course provides more content and requires greater intensity and depth of study than the non-honors class. (UC, CSU, AVC) Note: Students may take either ANTH 112 Native North Americans or ANTH 112H Native North Americans Honors. Duplicate credit will not be awarded.", "notes": [], "offered": [ { "term": "fall-2026", "name": "Fall 2026", "sections": 1, "open": 1, "url": "/c/antelope-valley-college/schedule/fall-2026/anth/#anth-112h", "subject": "ANTH" } ] }, { "code": "ANTH 140", "subject": "ANTH", "number": "140", "title": "Introduction to Archaeology", "units": "4", "hours": "54 lecture hours, 54 lab hours, 108 contact hours total", "cid": [ "ANTH 150" ], "transfer": [ "CSU", "UC" ], "description": "This course provides an introduction to archaeological field work and laboratory analysis, and involves student field work at off-campus archaeological sites. It also provides an introduction to the theoretical basis of anthropological archaeology research, in which artifacts and archaeological sites are examined in order to understand how culture has changed over time. Students will gain practical experience in field and laboratory research and methods. They will be exposed to a variety of real research situations in archaeology and will be taught to recognize and solve problems commonly arising in such situations.", "notes": [ "Applies to the associate degree or certificates (AVC)" ], "offered": [ { "term": "spring-2027", "name": "Spring 2027", "sections": 1, "open": 1, "url": "/c/antelope-valley-college/schedule/spring-2027/anth/#anth-140", "subject": "ANTH" } ] }, { "code": "ANTH 199", "subject": "ANTH", "number": "199", "title": "Work Experience Education", "units": "1-8", "hours": "432 lab hours", "cid": [], "transfer": [ "CSU" ], "description": "Students must also attend a scheduled orientation or meet individually with the supervising instructor for an individual orientation. Work Experience Education is supervised employment designed to provide students a realistic learning experience through work. The ultimate goal is to teach students skills and attitudes that will equip them to function and adapt as an employee in a variety of situations and jobs. Work Experience Education is supervised employment extending classroom-based occupational learning in an on-the-job learning situation related to the students' educational major or occupational goal. Credit may be accrued at the rate of one to eight units per semester.", "notes": [ "Limitation on enrollment: To participate in work experience education, students must have a paid or unpaid job or internship and have approval of a work supervisor and the instructor supervising the work experience in the specific subject area.", "Applies to the associate degree or certificates (AVC)", "May be repeated once (R1)" ], "offered": [ { "term": "fall-2026", "name": "Fall 2026", "sections": 1, "open": 1, "url": "/c/antelope-valley-college/schedule/fall-2026/anth/#anth-199", "subject": "ANTH" }, { "term": "spring-2027", "name": "Spring 2027", "sections": 2, "open": 2, "url": "/c/antelope-valley-college/schedule/spring-2027/anth/#anth-199", "subject": "ANTH" } ] } ] }