# Anthropology (ANTH) courses

Coastline College · 2026-2027 Catalog · 6 courses

Source: https://catalog.cccd.edu/coastline/course-descriptions/credit-courses/anth/

"Offered" lists sections in this catalog year's class schedules: Fall 2026, Spring 2027.

### ANTH C100 — Cultural Anthropology

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 54 lecture hours
- **C-ID:** ANTH 120
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 3 sections (/c/coastline-college/schedule/fall-2026/anth.md); Spring 2027, 3 sections (/c/coastline-college/schedule/spring-2027/anth.md)
- Grading Mode: Standard Letter, Pass/No Pass

This course offers an introductory study of the structure and process of culture. It focuses on the major features of culture and the methods of anthropological research and theoretical orientations with examples of culture variations in both traditional and modern societies.

### ANTH C120 — Introduction to Archaeology

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 54 lecture hours
- **Advisory:** ANTH C100.
- **C-ID:** ANTH 150
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/coastline-college/schedule/fall-2026/anth.md)
- Grading Mode: Standard Letter, Pass/No Pass

History, contemporary theory, field and lab methodology, and dating techniques in modern archaeology studied through Old and New World cultures. The emphasis will be on a conceptual approach to data interpretation.

### ANTH C150 — World Cultures

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 54 lecture hours
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026, Spring 2027 schedules
- Grading Mode: Standard Letter, Pass/No Pass

This course surveys cultures providing a foundation for understanding current global developments and human behavior dynamics when encountering cultural differences. Emphasizes practical communication skills used in culturally diverse settings.

### ANTH C175 — Global Perspectives of Food and Culture

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 54 lecture hours
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Spring 2027, 2 sections (/c/coastline-college/schedule/spring-2027/anth.md)
- Grading Mode: Standard Letter, Pass/No Pass

This course uses anthropological concepts to examine the social, cultural, and ecological aspects of food, food production, material culture of food, and food resources in a global, historical, and comparative perspective. Examines how food choices affect personal health, lifestyle, environment, and the wider human society. Enrollment Limitation: FN C177; students who complete ANTH C175 may not enroll in or receive credit for FN C177.

### ANTH C185 — Physical Anthropology

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 54 lecture hours
- **C-ID:** ANTH 110
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/coastline-college/schedule/fall-2026/anth.md); Spring 2027, 2 sections (/c/coastline-college/schedule/spring-2027/anth.md)
- Grading Mode: Standard Letter, Pass/No Pass

Formerly: ANTH C110. The course provides students with an understanding of human evolution and diversity from a biological perspective. Students will explore the central patterns of anatomical, behavioral, and genetic similarities and differences among living primates and humans, in addition to reconstructing the evidence for human evolution found in the fossil record.

### ANTH C190 — Introduction to Linguistics

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 54 lecture hours
- **C-ID:** ANTH 130
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/coastline-college/schedule/fall-2026/anth.md)
- Grading Mode: Standard Letter, Pass/No Pass

This course introduces students to linguistic anthropology and distinguishes how language is used from structure and patterning to examining contexts and situations of language use. The possible beginnings of language to the contemporary use and change of language is examined. The course identifies how language is used to exert power, influence, identity, and control. It evaluates whether language causes humans to view the world through the individual language spoken and compares linguistic diversity. The importance of culture in regard to language is emphasized. Analytical methods will be introduced.