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  "edition": "2026-2027",
  "code": "ANTH",
  "name": "Anthropology",
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      "code": "ANTH 1",
      "subject": "ANTH",
      "number": "1",
      "title": "Introduction to Physical Anthropology",
      "units": "3",
      "cid": [
        "ANTH 110"
      ],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "This course introduces the concepts, methods of inquiry, and scientific explanations for biological evolution and their application to the human species. Issues and topics will include but are not limited to, genetics, evolutionary theory, human variation, and biocultural adaptations, comparative primate anatomy and behavior, and the fossil evidence for human evolution. The scientific method serves as the foundation of the course. (C-ID: ANTH 110)",
      "notes": [
        "Grading: Standard Letter Grade"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "summer-2026",
          "name": "Summer 2026",
          "sections": 2,
          "open": 2,
          "url": "/c/gavilan-college/schedule/summer-2026/anth/#anth-1",
          "subject": "ANTH"
        },
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 5,
          "open": 5,
          "url": "/c/gavilan-college/schedule/fall-2026/anth/#anth-1",
          "subject": "ANTH"
        },
        {
          "term": "spring-2027",
          "name": "Spring 2027",
          "sections": 6,
          "open": 6,
          "url": "/c/gavilan-college/schedule/spring-2027/anth/#anth-1",
          "subject": "ANTH"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "ANTH 1L",
      "subject": "ANTH",
      "number": "1L",
      "title": "Physical Anthropology Lab",
      "units": "1",
      "prerequisite": "or",
      "corequisite": "ANTH 1, Introduction to Physical Anthropology, may be taken concurrently",
      "cid": [
        "ANTH 115L"
      ],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "This laboratory course is offered as a supplement to Introduction to Physical Anthropology either taken concurrently or in a subsequent term. Laboratory exercises are designed to introduce students to the scientific method and explore genetics, human variation, human and non-human primate anatomy and behavior, the primate/hominin fossil record and other resources to investigate processes that affect human evolution.(C-ID ANTH 115L). PREREQUISITE or COREQUISITE: ANTH 1, Introduction to Physical Anthropology, may be taken concurrently.",
      "notes": [
        "Grading: Standard Letter Grade"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "summer-2026",
          "name": "Summer 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/gavilan-college/schedule/summer-2026/anth/#anth-1l",
          "subject": "ANTH"
        },
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 3,
          "open": 3,
          "url": "/c/gavilan-college/schedule/fall-2026/anth/#anth-1l",
          "subject": "ANTH"
        },
        {
          "term": "spring-2027",
          "name": "Spring 2027",
          "sections": 2,
          "open": 2,
          "url": "/c/gavilan-college/schedule/spring-2027/anth/#anth-1l",
          "subject": "ANTH"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "ANTH 2",
      "subject": "ANTH",
      "number": "2",
      "title": "Introduction to Archaeology",
      "units": "3",
      "cid": [
        "ANTH 150"
      ],
      "transfer": [],
      "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. The course surveys selected prehistoric cultures. (C-ID: ANTH 150)",
      "notes": [
        "Grading: Standard Letter Grade"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/gavilan-college/schedule/fall-2026/anth/#anth-2",
          "subject": "ANTH"
        },
        {
          "term": "spring-2027",
          "name": "Spring 2027",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/gavilan-college/schedule/spring-2027/anth/#anth-2",
          "subject": "ANTH"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "ANTH 3",
      "subject": "ANTH",
      "number": "3",
      "title": "Introduction to Cultural Anthropology",
      "units": "3",
      "cid": [
        "ANTH 120"
      ],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "The course explores how anthropologists study and compare human cultures. 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 distinction among themselves such as through applying gender, racial and ethnic 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. Key concepts of power, social justice, equity, ethnocentrism, cultural relativism, race, anti-racism, decolonization, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, kinship, ritual, belief systems, and symbolism will be covered. 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. Students will write a research paper based on original fieldwork in a local community. (C-ID ANTH 120).",
      "notes": [
        "Grading: Option of a standard letter grade or Pass/no pass"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "summer-2026",
          "name": "Summer 2026",
          "sections": 2,
          "open": 2,
          "url": "/c/gavilan-college/schedule/summer-2026/anth/#anth-3",
          "subject": "ANTH"
        },
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/gavilan-college/schedule/fall-2026/anth/#anth-3",
          "subject": "ANTH"
        },
        {
          "term": "spring-2027",
          "name": "Spring 2027",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/gavilan-college/schedule/spring-2027/anth/#anth-3",
          "subject": "ANTH"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "ANTH 5",
      "subject": "ANTH",
      "number": "5",
      "title": "Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion",
      "units": "3",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Explores and analyzes, from a cross-cultural and comparative perspective, religious traditions in diverse cultural contexts with particular focus on the effects of globalization on religious beliefs and practices. Cross-cultural analysis of the concepts of magic, witchcraft, and religion. Examination of connections between the concepts of race, nation, and religion. Exploration of the above through ethnographic readings, class discussions, films, short papers, and a final research paper based on original fieldwork in a local religious or spiritual community.",
      "notes": [
        "Grading: Standard Letter Grade"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "ANTH 7",
      "subject": "ANTH",
      "number": "7",
      "title": "Global Perspectives of Food and Culture",
      "units": "3",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "This course explores food systems and cultural food traditions within a global context from an anthropological perspective. Students examine the social, cultural, and ecological aspects of food, food products, and food resources in a global, historical, and comparative perspective. Students explore how the most basic and essential act of eating defines the human species in terms of engagement with the natural world, food production and distribution systems, systems of race, ethnicity, class, and gender, health care, and interpersonal relationships.",
      "notes": [
        "Grading: Standard Letter Grade"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "spring-2027",
          "name": "Spring 2027",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/gavilan-college/schedule/spring-2027/anth/#anth-7",
          "subject": "ANTH"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "ANTH 10",
      "subject": "ANTH",
      "number": "10",
      "title": "Native American Culture",
      "units": "3",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "This course surveys the experiences of Indigenous peoples of North American including American Indian Tribes, First Nations of Canada, and Indigenous communities of Mesoamerica. Key themes include colonization, decolonization, resistance, cultural syncretism, political sovereignty, cultural revitalization, and ecology. The course examines these communities and themes through the cross cultural, holistic perspective of anthropology and the interdisciplinary perspectives of critical race theory and ethnic studies.",
      "notes": [
        "Grading: Option of a standard letter grade or Pass/no pass"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/gavilan-college/schedule/fall-2026/anth/#anth-10",
          "subject": "ANTH"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "ANTH 13",
      "subject": "ANTH",
      "number": "13",
      "title": "Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology",
      "units": "3",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "This introductory course serves as a foundation for understanding language from an anthropological perspective, addressing such core questions as how, what, when, where, why and with whom we communicate. This course surveys three core areas in linguistic anthropology—structural linguistics: phonetics, phonology, morphology and syntax, as well as the biocultural basis of language; historical linguistics: origins and evolution/change, dialects, and language families; and sociocultural linguistics: language acquisition in cultural context, emphasizing the relationship between language and culture, and issues of language conservation and loss. C-ID (ANTH 130).",
      "notes": [
        "Grading: Standard Letter Grade"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "ANTH 15",
      "subject": "ANTH",
      "number": "15",
      "title": "Forensic Anthropology",
      "units": "3",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Introduction to the application of anthropology as a science to the medical-legal process and its emphasis on the identification of human skeletal remains. Uses the scientific methodology to cover cell biology, population genetics, natural selection, human variation, evolution, basic human osteology and odontology, assessment of age at time of death, sex, ancestry, trauma analysis, pathology, crime scene analysis, animal scavenging, and identification procedures. Focuses on the varying applications of science in the modern world in which forensic anthropology is utilized, ranging from crime scene investigation, missing person identification, human rights, and humanitarian investigations.",
      "notes": [
        "Grading: Standard Letter Grade"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "ANTH 32",
      "subject": "ANTH",
      "number": "32",
      "title": "Introduction to Research Methods",
      "units": "3",
      "prerequisite": "PSYC C1000 or SOC 1A with a grade of \"C\" or better and STAT C1000 with a grade of \"C\" or better. C-ID: PSY 200",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "An overview of the qualitative and quantitative methodologies used in the social sciences. Students will learn how to design and conduct research, including: formulating research questions and hypotheses, reviewing the scientific literature, evaluating ethical issues, selecting appropriate methodologies, sample selection, organizing and analyzing data, applying statistics, and writing research reports. This course is also listed as SOC 32, PSYC 32, and POLS 32. PREREQUISITE: PSYC C1000 or SOC 1A with a grade of \"C\" or better and STAT C1000 with a grade of \"C\" or better. C-ID: PSY 200",
      "notes": [
        "Grading: Standard Letter Grade"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 2,
          "open": 2,
          "url": "/c/gavilan-college/schedule/fall-2026/anth/#anth-32",
          "subject": "ANTH"
        },
        {
          "term": "spring-2027",
          "name": "Spring 2027",
          "sections": 2,
          "open": 2,
          "url": "/c/gavilan-college/schedule/spring-2027/anth/#anth-32",
          "subject": "ANTH"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}