Academic Catalog

ARME563 CULTURAL EVOLUTION I

Course Code: 8630563
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Archaeometry
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Masters
Course Coordinator: Lecturer Dr. ALÝME BEGÜMÞEN ERGENEKON
Offered Semester: Fall Semesters.

Course Content

This course aims at introducing the anthropological approach in understanding what happened in history and is happening today. Therefore the concepts of culture, primate and human social organizations, evolution, cultural systems such as language and communication; marriage, family and kinship; production, consumption and exchange; social control; beliefs, myths and cosmology will be studied in terms of cultures in-nature.(F)