St. Cloud State University
General Education Goal Area 8
Global Perspectives
Academic Affairs Use Only:
Response Date:
Effective Date:
1.
Prepared by: Robert Lavenda
Phone: 8-3034
Proposal Number:
Email: lavenda@stcloudstate.edu
2.
Requesting Unit: Sociology and Anthropology
3.
Department, Course Number, Title: ANTH 101, Introduction to Anthropology
4.
New Course
5.
Will this course be flagged as a diversity course?
Already Designated as Diversity
Existing Course
No
Diversity Proposal Accompanying This Form
6.
Will this course also satisfy another General Education Goal Area?
No
Yes
If “Yes” specify which goal area.
5
7.
Course bulletin description, including credits and semesters to be offered:
ANTH 101. Introduction to Anthropology (Diversity/MGM) What it means to be human. Human nature
through time and around the world; human evolution, culture, kinship, religion, politics, economics, and language.
3 Cr. F, S.
8.
Indicate the clientele for whom this course is designed. Is the course for general education only, or
does it fulfill general education and other program needs for this or another department? Obtain
signatures from any affected departments.
General education only
9.
Indicate any changes that must be made in offerings or resources in your department or other
departments by offering this course.
None
10.
For new courses or courses not yet approved for General Education, indicate any other SCSU departments
or units offering instruction that relates to the content of the proposed course.
n/a
11.
Courses designated as General Education are included in the assessment plan for the Goal Area(s)
for which they are approved. Courses for which assessment is not included in the annual GE
assessment report for two years will be removed from the General Education Program.
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The Requesting Unit understands and recognizes the above conditions.
12.
Provide a concise explanation of how the following goal is a “significant focus” of the proposed course.
Goal Area 8: Global Perspectives
Develop a comparative perspective and understanding of one’s place in a global context.
ANTH 101 takes a comparative, holisitc approach to what it means to be human. The course looks at how
human beings evolved, addresses the global context of human variation, examines the cultural evolution of
political and economic systems over the course of human evolution, and considers the variation of human
social and cultural beliefs and practices across time and space. Extensive treatment of global processes as
perceived from the perspective of groups of people on the ground . The student who finishes this course
successfully will be able to describe where humans come from, to demonstrate awareness of some of the vast
range of human social and cultural variation, and explain processes that are connecting and separating people
today.
13. In order for a course to be designated as fulfilling Goal Area 8, it must address at least 4 of the 5 student learning
outcomes (SLOs) below. Check the SLOs below that are focused on in the proposed general education course.
1. Explain how they are connected and related to people elsewhere in the world.
2. Describe similarities and differences among global places and populations.
3. Analyze how political, economic or cultural elements influence relations among the world’s states, peoples, or
societies.
4. Analyze specific international issues and propose and evaluate responses.
5. Articulate a vision of their individual roles and responsibilities in a common global future.
14.
Discuss how each Student Learning Outcome checked above is achieved in this course. (Note: Although
descriptions of typical assignments or types of assignments may be part of this discussion, it is not
appropriate to submit copies of actual assignments.)
Students meet SLO 1 by explaining, on the one hand, the fossil and genetic evidence that connects all
human beings everywhere in the world, and on the other hand, the social and cultural evidence of connections
among people and their social, economic, and political worlds.
Students meet SLO 2 by describing different kinds of social, political, and economic organizations that
characterize the range of human social formations around the globe
Students meet SLO 3 by analyzing the politics of inequality as it affects "race," gender, class, caste,
ethnicity, and nationalism. The class includes an extensive discussion of colonialism and neo-colonialism, as well
as attenpts of different societies, in different times and places, to assert themselves against (or resist) oppression
by others.
Students meet SLO 4 by analyzing human rights as a global phenomenon. Are there human rights that are
distrinct from cultural rights? We consider this particularly significant and vexing question.
Students meet SLO 5 throughout the course in all segments of the course, as they are challenged to
demonstrate the effect on phenotypes of social inequality, the implications of ethnocentrism and cultural
relativism, and the effects of colonialism and neocolonialism.
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15.
List or attach the Course Outline (adequately described and including percentage of time to be allocated
to each topic). Curriculum Committees may request additional information. Topics larger than 20% need
to be broken down further. Indicate in your course outline where the Student Learning Outcomes
checked above are being met.
Introduction: 3.57%
The principles of evolution:
7.14% SLO 1-2
Human variation:
7.14% SLO 1-3, 5
Comparing Humans to other primates: 7.14%
Human origins: 7.14% SLO 1
Studying the human past: 7.14% SLO 1, 2, 3
Agriculture and urbanization: 3.57% SLO 2
The concept of culture: 7.14% SLO 1-5
Human language: 7.14% SLO 1-3
Symbolic practices: play, art, myth, ritual:
7.14% SLO 1, 5
Economic and political relations in human societies: 7.14% SLO 1-3, 5
Kinship and Family:
7.14% SLO 1-2
Social inequality:
7.14% SLO 3-5
Globalization: 7.14% SLO 1-5
Anthropology and everyday life:
3.57% SLO 5
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St. Cloud State University
General Education Transmittal Form
Academic Affairs Use Only:
Response Date:
Effective Date:
Proposal Number
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
Course or Course(s): ANTH 101
Robert H. Lavenda
Department or Unit Chair Signature
02/18/2010
Date
Department forward to Academic Affairs for publication and electronically to Chair of General Education Committee, Chair
of College Curriculum Committee, College Dean
Recommendation of General Education Committee:
Approve
Remarks:
Disapprove
Chairperson
Committee
Signature
Date
Recommendation of University Curriculum Committee:
Approve
Remarks:
Disapprove
Chairperson
Committee
Signature
Date
Recommendation of Faculty Association:
Approve
Remarks:
Disapprove
FA Senate
Signature
Date
Action of Academic Vice President:
Approve
Disapprove
Signature
Entered in Curriculum Data File
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Remarks:
Date