Anthropology

Introduces students primarily to cultural anthropology, its key concepts, terminology, theories and research. Some aspects of physical anthropology and linguistics are also covered. Topics include culture, ethnocentrism, cultural aspects of language and communication, economic patterns, kinship, sex and marriage, socialization, social control, political organization, class and caste, ethnicity, gender, religion, beliefs and cultural change. Students will be required to engage in fieldwork experience. (Fulfills Social Science requirement)

Effective Fall 2023: this is a CCSNH Access course and will display on transcripts, count as credits attempted, and count towards the cumulative grade point average for all seven colleges: Great Bay, Lakes Region, Manchester, Nashua, NHTI, River Valley, and White Mountains. Students cannot receive credit for more than one of the CCSNH Access courses or equivalents and the most recent course on the college transcript will be used in the cumulative grade point average (CGPA) calculation. For graduation residency purposes, only Access courses owned by the campus where the student is matriculated will be used to meet the requirements.

For more than 100 years, archaeology has fascinated scholars and the public, from studies of our earliest ancestors to Howard Carter’s discovery of King Tut’s tomb to Indiana Jones. This introductory course surveys the rise of human civilization from the first apes to walk on two legs over 2.5 million years ago to the development of complex societies. This course will cover the shift from hunters and foragers to the development of food production and how the shift in the environment allowed humans to develop to today’s level of complexity. Students will be required to engage in fieldwork experience. Prerequisite: Placement into ENGL110M. (Fulfills Social Science requirement)