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  "college": "butte-college",
  "edition": "2026-2027",
  "code": "ANTH",
  "name": "Anthropology",
  "sourceUrl": "https://butte.curriqunet.com/catalog/iq/25393/28400/27934",
  "courses": [
    {
      "code": "ANTH 4",
      "subject": "ANTH",
      "number": "4",
      "title": "Cultural Anthropology",
      "units": "3",
      "hours": "51 hours lecture",
      "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. (C-ID ANTH 120).",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 3,
          "open": 3,
          "url": "/c/butte-college/schedule/fall-2026/anth/#anth-4",
          "subject": "ANTH"
        },
        {
          "term": "winter-2027",
          "name": "Winter 2027",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 0,
          "url": "/c/butte-college/schedule/winter-2027/anth/#anth-4",
          "subject": "ANTH"
        },
        {
          "term": "spring-2027",
          "name": "Spring 2027",
          "sections": 3,
          "open": 2,
          "url": "/c/butte-college/schedule/spring-2027/anth/#anth-4",
          "subject": "ANTH"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "ANTH 13",
      "subject": "ANTH",
      "number": "13",
      "title": "Magic, Witchcraft and Religion",
      "units": "3",
      "hours": "51 hours lecture",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [
        "CSU",
        "UC"
      ],
      "description": "This course is a cross-cultural study of the forms and functions of supernatural beliefs and rituals in contemporary and historical societies. Various methods, theories, and models from anthropology and related social sciences are applied to the cross-cultural study of belief systems. An anthropological perspective, emphasizing holism and cultural relativism, is taken to demonstrate how belief in supernatural forces reflects other cultural patterns of behavior and thinking, such as subsistence practices, social organization, and cultural change. Students will gain a comparative understanding of diverse belief systems and their cultural significance.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 3,
          "open": 3,
          "url": "/c/butte-college/schedule/fall-2026/anth/#anth-13",
          "subject": "ANTH"
        },
        {
          "term": "spring-2027",
          "name": "Spring 2027",
          "sections": 2,
          "open": 2,
          "url": "/c/butte-college/schedule/spring-2027/anth/#anth-13",
          "subject": "ANTH"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "ANTH 14",
      "subject": "ANTH",
      "number": "14",
      "title": "Language and Culture",
      "units": "3",
      "hours": "51 hours lecture",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [
        "CSU",
        "UC"
      ],
      "description": "This course is a survey of the foundations of linguistic anthropology. Basic concepts, methods, and forms of analysis associated with linguistic anthropology are covered. Emphases will be placed on such areas of inquiry as the origins of human language and communication, language acquisition, how linguists describe and compare different language systems, how historical relationships among the world's languages are determined, understanding the use of language across social and situational contexts (sociolinguistics), and cross-cultural communication.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/butte-college/schedule/fall-2026/anth/#anth-14",
          "subject": "ANTH"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "ANTH 16",
      "subject": "ANTH",
      "number": "16",
      "title": "Introduction to Archaeology",
      "units": "3",
      "hours": "51 hours lecture",
      "cid": [
        "ANTH 150"
      ],
      "transfer": [
        "CSU",
        "UC"
      ],
      "description": "This course is an introduction to the study of concepts, theories, data and models of anthropological archaeology that contribute to our knowledge of the human past. The course includes a discussion of the nature of scientific inquiry; the history and interdisciplinary nature of archaeological research; dating techniques; methods of survey, excavation, analysis, and interpretation; cultural resource management; professional ethics; and selected cultural sequences. (C-ID ANTH 150).",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "spring-2027",
          "name": "Spring 2027",
          "sections": 2,
          "open": 2,
          "url": "/c/butte-college/schedule/spring-2027/anth/#anth-16",
          "subject": "ANTH"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "ANTH 18",
      "subject": "ANTH",
      "number": "18",
      "title": "World Cultures",
      "units": "3",
      "hours": "51 hours lecture",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [
        "CSU",
        "UC"
      ],
      "description": "This course is a survey of the world's culture areas as described and conceptualized by cultural anthropologists. While the course has a significant geographical component, emphasis is placed on an anthropological perspective on cultural dynamics in terms of general subsistence patterns, sociopolitical organization, and the increased globalization over time of the world's cultural systems. Societal types such as hunter gatherers, horticulturalists, pastoralists, intensive agriculturalists, and industrialists are described and compared from an anthropological perspective. Culture contact and change models are also included as a substantive part of the course content.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/butte-college/schedule/fall-2026/anth/#anth-18",
          "subject": "ANTH"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "ANTH 32",
      "subject": "ANTH",
      "number": "32",
      "title": "Native Americans",
      "units": "3",
      "hours": "51 hours lecture",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [
        "CSU",
        "UC"
      ],
      "description": "This course is designed to provide students with a detailed knowledge of prehistoric and early historic cultures of the Native Americans of North America. This will include the study of their origins, language families, traditional and transitional cultural patterns, the impact of Euroamerican populations, and a survey of the various natural and cultural regions of North America.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "ANTH 33",
      "subject": "ANTH",
      "number": "33",
      "title": "Ancient Mesoamerica",
      "units": "3",
      "hours": "51 hours lecture",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [
        "CSU",
        "UC"
      ],
      "description": "This course is a comparative survey of the precontact cultural traditions of Mesoamerica. Mesoamerica includes all of the central, southern Mexico, the Yucatan Peninsula, the northern regions of Central America. Emphasis is placed on cultural evolution as exemplified through the cultural development and subsequent decline of such traditions as the Olmec, Maya, Zapotec, and Aztec (among others). Comparisons to precontact South American traditions are included.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "ANTH 95",
      "subject": "ANTH",
      "number": "95",
      "title": "Special Studies-ANTH",
      "units": "1-3",
      "hours": "51-153 hours independent study",
      "prerequisite": "Permission of instructor",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [
        "CSU"
      ],
      "description": "Supervised study in researching an area in the student's academic major. Any student interested in registering for a Special Studies course should contact a full-time instructor or chair/coordinator in the appropriate area no later than the last day of the tenth week of instruction. Students may not petition for a Special Studies course until they have completed satisfactorily 12 units of study at Butte College. 51-153 hours Independent Study. This course may be repeated to a maximum of 3.00 units to complete the entire curriculum of the course.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "ANTH C1001",
      "subject": "ANTH",
      "number": "C1001",
      "title": "Introduction to Biological Anthropology",
      "units": "3",
      "hours": "51 hours lecture",
      "cid": [
        "ANTH 110"
      ],
      "transfer": [
        "CSU",
        "UC"
      ],
      "description": "In this course, students examine human origins, evolution, and variation with a focus on the adaptations of humans and other primates. Biological evolution and scientific methods are foundations for the course. (C-ID ANTH 110).",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 6,
          "open": 5,
          "url": "/c/butte-college/schedule/fall-2026/anth/#anth-c1001",
          "subject": "ANTH"
        },
        {
          "term": "spring-2027",
          "name": "Spring 2027",
          "sections": 8,
          "open": 7,
          "url": "/c/butte-college/schedule/spring-2027/anth/#anth-c1001",
          "subject": "ANTH"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "ANTH C1001L",
      "subject": "ANTH",
      "number": "C1001L",
      "title": "Biological Anthropology Lab",
      "units": "1",
      "hours": "51 hours lab",
      "corequisite": "Successful completion of or concurrent enrollment in ANTH C1001",
      "cid": [
        "ANTH 155L"
      ],
      "transfer": [
        "CSU",
        "UC"
      ],
      "description": "In this laboratory course, students investigate the anatomy, genetics, behavior, variation, and evolution of humans and other primates. Students apply the scientific method and use interactive exercises in this course supplement to the Introduction to Biological Anthropology lecture course. (C-ID ANTH 155L).",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 2,
          "open": 2,
          "url": "/c/butte-college/schedule/fall-2026/anth/#anth-c1001l",
          "subject": "ANTH"
        },
        {
          "term": "spring-2027",
          "name": "Spring 2027",
          "sections": 2,
          "open": 2,
          "url": "/c/butte-college/schedule/spring-2027/anth/#anth-c1001l",
          "subject": "ANTH"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}