(This is a generic syllabus, not created for a particular semester, but its content is updated)
(Detailed syllabi for particular semesters are given within the iCollege website)
“Introduction to Cultural Anthropology”- ANTH 1102 - Professor W. Ernie Guyton
Office: CB-2106 Email: william.guyton@gpc.edu Fax: 678-891-3084 Phone: 678-891-3367
Web Links: http://facstaff.gpc.edu/~wguyton/homepage.html & http://www.gpc.edu/icollege/
All students will need a special Student Access Code for iCollege for this class (link just above)
Textbook: Cultural Anthropology: The Human Challenge, 12th Edition, author: William Haviland
One method of online textbook acquisition: http://www.gpc.edu/online/textbooks/dlbooks.htm
Articles on E-Reserve: http://gil.gpc.edu (password given within iCollege)
Overview: Cultural Anthropology is the study of us humans as socially learned and interactive beings. Our ultimate aim is to understand the diversity of human experience and behavior in the widest possible geographic, historical, and social terms. To do that, we look at both the change which humans have undergone throughout history and prehistory, and the variety that is presently evident in the world. In this course you will encounter many societies you have not heard of before and many customs you find different. Tribal and traditional cultures will get special attention. In doing so, the teachings and readings of this course will hopefully give you a new appreciation of your world neighbors, human heritage, and of yourself as a cultural participant within your own unique society.
This course is provided to you by way of the computer technology program we call “iCollege” (formally WebCT Vista), a website administered through Georgia Perimeter College.
Exam
#2 (given On-Line within iCollege)
Chapters 5 ; 6 ;
9 ; 10
Exam
#3 (given
On-Line within iCollege)
Chapters 7 ; 8 ; 11 ; 12
Exam
#4 (comprehensive; given on Clarkston Campus; bring photo
i.d.)
Comprehensive, along with questions from the
new chapters 13 ; 15 ; 16
Support Materials
Provided within iCollege are “support materials” for each chapter that will be tested. Within each chapter’s support materials will be chapter overviews, summaries, power-point lecture notes, glossaries, and new audio lectures and outlines. These are all to help you review and test your knowledge of each chapter.
Articles (on reserve in Clarkston Library & On-Line) /Original Studies Readings (in textbook)
These are 10 short articles in total, some of which can be retrieved at GPC Clarkston Library or On-line, others “Original Studies” found right in textbook; all for which you will be tested. To retrieve the articles on-line from the library, follow the detailed instructions and password given in a special link within iCollege. Again, “Original Studies” articles will be in the textbook.
Choose one of the 3 options: #1) Write a summary report following a visit the Michael Carlos Museum (at Emory University), picking out 2 geographic sections, or cultural/ historical regions, from all the exhibits, describing and interpreting some of your favorite artifacts. Obviously, you’ll need to take some notes while at the museum, or, #2) Perform a “mini-ethnography” (questionnaire/ interview) by asking a set of questions (most of them given to you in Professor’s Homepage or iCollege) with a person from a different culture/country than your own (American citizens born in the U.S. excluded). Write up the questions & answers, along with your summary to the interview (1 long paragraph - what you learned, nonverbal cues, how you thought the interview went, etc.); extra questions you add will be a plus; or, Option #3) Write a summary report following a visit to the Atlanta Zoo visiting with the primates (gorillas, chimps, orangutans.). The first 9 pages of Chapter 3 in the textbook should serve as the basis for your observations of primate behavior. Information from those pages should be reflected in your report. Send any one or these reports through attached document within a special iCollege “Assignment” link I have set up. Any report you choose should be between 2 and 3 pages, 3 pages maximum.
1) Textbook readings from the assigned chapters and pages above.
2) Read and work through the summaries, power point reviews, glossary, and audio lectures
provided by our publisher and your instructor (me) in iCollege for each chapter. These will be
under “support materials” links. Test questions will not necessarily come directly from
practice tests, and these practice tests score do not count toward you final grade. The Study
Guides offered 1 week prior to each exam are very helpful.
3)
There will be 4 major exams (all multiple choice). The first 3
will be given On-line within iCollege,
the final exam #4 you will come on Clarkston Campus to take it (need a Scantron
Sheet, a #2 pencil,
and a photo i.d.) – The first 3 exams will usually take about 1 hour or less
consisting of approx. 30 to
40 questions-approx. 45 minutes to complete; Final exam will have 65
questions and up to 2 hours to complete.
Both day & nighttime testing will be available; whether on-line or on Clarkston Campus.
Exam dates and times given in current semester iCollege syllabus
*Important - Study Guides for all exams will be posted on iCollege one
week prior to each exam.
4)
There will be 2 Article Questionnaire Quizzes (simple multiple
choice questions given On-Line in iCollege). It’s
basically a reading & comprehension quiz that takes only about 20 minutes
covering the articles & original studies
assigned in iCollege. Having read the articles thoroughly, understanding
its major points or teachings,
highlighting important points as you read, should be enough.
The
questionnaires will be offered to you throughout the day for the designated
dates given in the current syllabus.
5) Activity Report Paper – Turned in via special iCollege “Assignments” link
Due Date in
iCollege syllabus
Missed
Exam Policy
Due to the early advanced warning of testing and assignment dates, as well as the flexibility of testing times, there will be no make-up exams or quizzes. A missed exam, quiz or paper assignment will require sufficient documentation that you had no possible access to a computer on testing dates due to serious accident, injury or serious illness. Only then would a make-up exam be considered. This most seriously applies to the Final Exam. However, one of the first 3 exams can be dropped whereby the comprehensive Final Exam score will be counted twice. Computer problems or failure cannot be used as an excuse for a missed exam. That’s why it is advised to have a reliable updated computer, and a back-up plan (another computer and location) for testing dates, and not wait until the final hour available to take your exams/quizzes.
4 Exams @ 50 points each………………………200
2 Article Questionnaires @ 30 points each………60
1 Activity Report @ 40 points each.……………. 40
Total……………………………….………….….300
Final
Grade based on a 10-point scale (270-300=A;
240-269=B; 210-239=C; 180-209=D; 179<=F)
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Welcome to the class! This is a step-by-step
Orientation for my On-line Cultural Anthropology course (1102).
Here you will find a more detailed explanation of the Syllabus and course requirements.
It is important that you read it thoroughly.
--Getting Started: Of course you
need to be registered with GPC’s Distance Learning to gain access into the iCollege
program (login & password) (formally WebCT Vista). Link to
Distance Learning: http://www.gpc.edu/online/index.htm
. Next stop then is to get your textbook (titled: “Cultural
Anthropology: the Human Challenge” 12th edition, author William
Haviland). You can get it at most of the GPC bookstores, or get it online
through our GPC Online Bookstore: http://www.gpc.edu/online/textbooks/dlbooks.htm
, or other online textbooks websites. If you are studying on, or live
nearby, the Clarkston Campus library you could check out the assigned
supplemental articles (copier available) on Reserve at the Circulation
Desk. These we will be required reading. Alternatively, these
articles can also be downloaded on-line (instructions and password in
iCollege). With those tools (textbook, articles, and iCollege
access) you will have everything you need for the course. Several
“support materials” will be in iCollege as well to help you along the way.
If you desire a general orientation to college life at GPC, and the general
assistance we offer, venture into the website: http://www.gpc.edu/online/backpack/backpack.htm
.
--The grading for the course will come from 4
major exams (multiple choice; all on-line except Final exam given face-to-face
on Clarkston Campus);
2 quizzes (reading & comprehension quizzes given online from assigned
articles on reserve in the Clarkston Library, or on-line); and 1 Activity
Report (description below & in syllabus). The tests will be offered on the
dates, times and locations in the syllabus with both day and night time slots
for testing. The 2 article quizzes will be given on-line on the dates and times
in the syllabus. The written assignment will be turned in through a
special assignment link within
iCollege due on the date in the syllabus. The value of each of these exams and
assignment, as well as the overall grading scale, is given at the bottom of the
syllabus.
-- The supplemental articles to read are listed in the syllabus and on Reserve in Clarkston Library (Circulation Desk), and on-line at the following web address: http://gil.gpc.edu . Instructions and password for on-line retrieval are given in a special link in iCollege. These article titles are listed in the iCollege syllabus. Reading and comprehension quizzes (titled: “article questionnaires”) will be given on these articles. They are simple multiple-choice type questions. Having read the articles well, highlighting or making notes of important points along the way, should be sufficient for a good grade. Again, these 2 quizzes are given on-line, and only take about 15-20 minutes to complete.
--Written Assignment: The
assignment is an Activity Report for which I give you 3 choices of
activities. One choice is an Anthropological Survey or Interview (asking a
series of survey questions to someone of a different ethnicity/culture than
yourself (foreign student, neighbor, co-worker), and then writing out those
responses. It should include a summary paragraph (1/2 page) of how you
thought the interview went at the end (nonverbal communication; did you agree
with the answers; were you surprised by them, etc.). Choice #2 is a visit
to the Michael Carlos Anthropology Museum at Emory University where you will
takes notes at the museum on 2 different cultural/geographical regions (ex.
Ancient Egypt & Africa, or Andes & Maya regions of Latin America) and
then summarize your notes into a 2 to 3 page summary paper. That would be
my highest recommended activity. Choice #3 is a visit to the Atlanta Zoo
where you can visit our relatives the primates (chimps/gorillas/orangutans)
making notes on their behavior. You will need to read the first 9 pages
of Chapter 3 before you go as a base of information to your summary paper (2 to
3 pages). You’ll just choose one of these 3 activity reports to
do. Spelling, grammar and the paper’s organization will be taken into
account for this grade. This research and writing assignment is to be
turned in within a special assignments link within iCollege on the assigned
date in the syllabus.
--Review: In total you'll have 4 major multiple
choice exams, 2 article questionnaire quizzes, and 1 relatively short activity
report paper to meet the course's requirements. Test/Quiz dates, times, testing
location, and paper due dates are all given in the detailed iCollege syllabus
and calendar.
--Web Tools: Though my personal homepage website can be of
initial assistance (http://facstaff.gpc.edu/~wguyton/homepage.html),
virtually everything you need to be successful in the class can be found in
iCollege ( www.gpc.edu/online/index.htm
). Through iCollege I will offer updated “Instructor Announcements” on
the main page (important to check these announcements regularly); Study Guides
1 week prior to each exam; links back to homepage; detailed syllabus; chapter
summaries, glossaries, and audio lectures and outlines all labeled under
“Support Materials”; our own internal email (I request you email me only
through iCollege and not my regular GPC email account); a calendar to remind
you of important dates on the syllabus; discussion/chat space for articles or
exam discussions; and lastly we will be taking our 2 Article Questionnaires
(quizzes) and Exams 1, 2, and 3 on-line through iCollege as well.
-- After the first 2 chapters you should have a pretty good feel for Anthropology's approach to studying humanity at large and individual culture groups. I think you’re going to love the exposure all these alternative ways in which humans have shaped and organized what we call a culture group or society. If you're having trouble getting a handle on what Anthropology's really all about, or on specifics in preparing for exams, tap into the discussion-chat rooms to ask other students, or myself. Otherwise, I can be reached in iCollege e-mail for questions.
--Good luck and be self-disciplined. Distance Learning requires it.
Mr. Guyton
Ethnography
Questions
iCollege Online Assistance
After you have read this Orientation, and Syllabus within iCollege,
you must take the “Opening Quiz” within our iCollege site. This officially signs you
into the class, otherwise I am required to drop you
from the class after this date. Thanks,
Mr. Guyton