Department Chair: Dr. Chris Moyers
Counseling: (408) 855-5030
Phone: (408) 855-5300
cmoyers@pacbell.net
Learning Outcomes
The Department of Anthropology is designed to further the goals of Mission College to provide students a learning experience which will meet their lifelong educational needs and enhance their abilities to live and work in a diverse society.
The specific learning outcomes and objectives of the Anthropology Department is to provide students with the ability to:
- Attain the educational goals of:
- Pursuing general education
- Transferring to four-year schools
- Completing career goals in vocational programs
- Pursuing general education
- Understand and utilize the basic principles and points of view of
anthropology, which will allow the students to gain insight into the
behavior of people functioning in various cultural groups, both in the
present and in the past.
- Understand the principles of human evolution.
- Gain insight into the transmission of customs and cultural behaviors.
- Understand the interaction of cultures and ways in which cultures
associate with one another, including cultural diffusion and cultural
domination.
- Understand global perspectives involving exchange between cultures.
- Study cultures of the past, and investigate techniques used to study
such cultures.
- Investigate and experience specific areas of life involved in the use of resources, the development of tools, and the development of beliefs, values, and customs.
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