Course

Course Summary
Credit Type:
Course
ACE ID:
NPEP-0034
Organization:
Pittsburgh Leadership Foundation
Location:
Classroom-based
Length:
Estimated 28 hours (self-study)
Dates Offered:
Credit Recommendation & Competencies
Level Credits (SH) Subject
Lower-Division Baccalaureate 1 Cultural Anthropology
Description

Objective:

To provide students with the first of a three part of an introductory level cultural anthropology Course. The Course will embrace cultures from all continents, highlighting major lifestyles, and illustrating human adaptation to environment from the beginnings of the human species to the present.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Will be familiar with the Industrial Revolution and the growth of cities during this age
  • Will be familiar with the changing cultural and economic relationships between the cites and countryside in the late nineteenth century as well as the impact that Darwin's theory of evolution had on social thought
  • Understand the causes that led to the first and second World Wars as well as the military tensions that emerged between the Soviet Bloc and the United States and its allies in the wake of the development of nuclear technology
  • Demonstrate a knowledge of the changes in warfare during the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars as well as the ways in which French armies carried the ideals and institutions of the revolution to other countries and the effects of the French Revolution o
  • Will understand the ways in which various countries achieved unity or national independence in the century after the defeat of Napoleon as well as the principal patterns of overseas expansion and colonization
Instruction & Assessment

Instructional Strategies:

  • Audio Visual Materials
Supplemental Materials