UNIVERSITY OF GUAM COURSE OUTLINE

Course Number: Anthropology 330 College: Arts & Sciences
Course Title: Peoples & Cultures of the World
Credit Hours: 3
Date of Final Approval: NA Semester Offered: Sp/Even

Course counts as an anthropology major and minor requirement and as an option for the anthropology/linguistics/psychology/sociology general education requirement.

1. CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION. This course examines the traditional ways of life of selected societies from North America, South America, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the Pacific. Prerequisite: AN 101

2. COURSE CONTENT. The course examines representative peoples in varying parts of the world in comparison to Pacific island cultures, with special attention paid to problems of tourism and ethnicity.

3. RATIONALE FOR THE COURSE. This course provides students with the comparative framework they need in order to place in global and anthropological context some of the most important issues facing Pacific island cultures today.

4. SKILLS AND BACKGROUND REQUIRED OR EXPECTED.

Anthropology 101 is a prerequisite. Students should be prepared to read, write, and think critically.

5. TEACHING METHODOLOGIES AND ANTICIPATED CLASS SIZE.

Anticipated class size is 15. Classes will be lecture and discussion, supplemented by occasional anthropological films and guest speakers. Students will be encouraged to work closely and directly with the instructor on individual projects.

6. ADDITIONAL COURSE DESCRIPTORS. None.

7. LEARNING OBJECTIVES FOR STUDENTS. Students completing the course will:

1) analyze representative contemporary anthropological studies of tourism and ethnicity;

2) utilize anthropological methodology in researching specific topics concerning tourism and ethnicity;

3) recognize and appreciate both the unique and common aspects of tourism and ethnicity among representative peoples across the world.

8. METHODS OF EVALUATION. Students will take two examinations and prepare two class projects in which original research will be required.

9. REQUIRED AND RECOMMENDED TEXTS AND/OR STUDY GUIDES.

Picard & Wood, Tourism Ethnicity and the State in

Asian and Pacific Societies and Levin, Ethnicity and

Aboriginality.

10. SUBSEQUENT COURSES.

AN 320 - People of the Pacific

AN/EN 333 - Literature of Guam, Micronesia, the Pacific

AN/GE 341 - Cultural Ecology

AN/SO - Community Development

AN/HI/SO 413 - Research Methodology

AN 421 - Cross-cultural and Sociological Problems of Guam and Micronesia

GE 401 - Geography of the Pacific
GE 461 - Conservation/Natural Resource Management
HI 444 - Modern Pacific History
HI 450 - Topics in Pacific History
PS 412 - Government and Politics of Micronesia