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This course uses insights from Anthropology, Political Science, and Sociology to develop students’ awareness of cultural, social and political dynamics, and sensitivity to cultural diversity; provide them an understanding of how culture, human agency, society and politics work; and engage them in the examination of the country’s current human development goals.

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• Starting Points for the Understanding of Culture, Society, and Politics

• Defining Culture and Society from the perspectives of Anthropology and Sociology

• Looking back at Human Biocultural and Social Evolution

• Becoming a Member of Society

• Groups within society: Primary and Secondary, In-groups and out-groups, Reference groups, and Networks

• Cultural, Social and Political Institutions

• Political and Leadership Structures

• Economic Institutions

• Nonstate institutions

• Education

• Religion and Belief Systems

• Social and Political Stratification

• Cultural, Social, and Political Change — Sources Of

• New challenges to Human Adaptation and Social Change

• Responding to Social, Political, and Cultural Change

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                                                                               **Contributed by Dr. Myla Arcinas