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  "college": "san-diego-mesa-college",
  "edition": "2026-2027",
  "departmentName": "Anthropology",
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  "name": "Anthropology",
  "award": "Associate of Arts Degree",
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      "markdown": "### Summary\n\nThe Associate of Arts Degree in Anthropology provides students with a unique understanding of humanity through the examination of the variation of human social lives, cultures and biology across the globe. The Associate of Arts Degree in Anthropology is well-suited for students who wish to transfer and major or minor in anthropology or related areas.\n\n**Award Note:**\nThe Associate Degree requires a minimum of 60 degree applicable semester units.\n\n**Learning Outcome(s): Students who complete the Anthropology Program will be able to:**\n\n1.  Use an anthropological framework to think critically in reading, writing, and/or speaking, thereby interpreting relevant problems, theses, arguments and evidence to draw and defend rational conclusions.\n2.  Effectively communicate employing anthropological perspectives while recognizing and respecting potential differences in worldview\n3.  Articulate the varieties of biological and cultural adaptations and demonstrate an understanding of cultural diversity.\n4.  Articulate ability to understand one’s role in local and global society, take responsibility for one’s own actions, and make ethical decisions in complex situations.\n5.  Collect data and engage with research through appropriate use of an array of scholarly sources and through discipline-specific technologies and frameworks."
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      "markdown": "### Requirements"
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          "text": "COURSES REQUIRED FOR THE MAJOR:",
          "units": "9"
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          "code": "ANTH 102",
          "title": "Introduction to Biological Anthropology",
          "units": "3",
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          "type": "course",
          "code": "ANTH 103",
          "title": "Introduction to Cultural Anthropology",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ANTH 107",
          "title": "Introduction to Archaeology",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
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          "type": "comment",
          "text": "Select a minimum of nine units from the following:",
          "units": "9"
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        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ANTH 104",
          "title": "Laboratory in Biological Anthropology",
          "units": "1",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ANTH 110",
          "title": "Anthropology of Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ANTH 117",
          "title": "Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ANTH 130",
          "title": "Bones: Human Osteology",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ANTH 140",
          "title": "Primatology",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ANTH 205",
          "title": "Introduction to Medical Anthropology",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ANTH 215",
          "title": "Cultures of Latin America",
          "units": "3",
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