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Anthropology

Grades 11/12 - Semester - 1/2 credit

This half-year course is designed to examine the origins of human society, as well as to broaden the student’s understanding of other cultures. The topics of the course center on an analysis of humans as both creatures of nature and creators of culture. The objective of the course is to increase the understanding of human behavior in such a way as to enable the human species to shape its future course more intelligently, and to provide the essential knowledge base for students to look at human behavior in terms of people’s common humanity.