ANTHR 345

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American Culture

Anthropology College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences

Course Description

Perspectives and methods for making sense of mainstream middle-class American society; American ways of being-in-the-world, of believing, behaving, and belonging; American cultural themes.

When Taught

Winter.

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3

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Title

American Culture

Learning Outcome

Develop an enhanced understanding of what it means to be American.Learn how to use the stories Americans tell about themselves as portholes through which to peer into the ordinarily invisible world of American culture.Be able to describe the values, beliefs, and attitudes that shape and color how Americans perceive and act in the world, that inform American social and political life as well as individual psychology.Demonstrate theability to think soundly, to communicate effectively, and to write a clear and convincing memoir of a specific American experience that reveals a particular, readily identifiable aspect of American culture.