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INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY COURSE IDENTIFICATION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

Code Name of the Course Unit Semester In-Class Hours (T+P) Credit ECTS Credit
SHT120 INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY 2 3 3 6

Objectives and Contents
Objectives: This course aims to acknowledge social anthropology, examine its historical development and evaluate the methods and perspective of this science. Course also aims to prepare a ground to provide “cultural competence” the main element of the field of social service by considering cultural diversity and variation and by indigenizing the meaning of culture as the principle matter of social anthropology.
Content: Contents of the course include basic concepts of social and cultural anthropology taking part in the range of social sciences and each student taking the course will be able to discover different life styles of human beings and to examine cultural diversity in a national and universal context. Within the course, methods of study in the ethnographic field, theory of culture and principle theoretical approaches will be introduced and basic concepts of culture as in social structure, family and kinship systems, gender, religion, faith and rituals, human and environment, political construct, economy and shopping, language, art will be scrutinized.