Accessing Your Course |
Canvas (by Instructure)
Your course is using Canvas. If you are new to Canvas, please visit the
Canvas Basics course space
to become familiar with Canvas prior to the start of your course. No login is required to
access this space.
You will be able to login to Canvas about two weeks prior to the start of your class.
However, your course becomes available as of 1 AM on the official course
start date.
Logging In
Log in to your Canvas course space at
bucks.instructure.com
- Username: Your username is the same for every system at Bucks.
- Password: your Bucks Network password (used to log into any Bucks campus computer or to access any Bucks Library online database from off campus.)
If you do not know your Bucks Username, you can retrieve it by using the Find Your Username Form. Enter your Name, Birthday (mm/dd/yyyy) and either your 7 digit student ID number OR your social security number, then click Submit. Your Bucks username will display on the screen.
Note: Students are uploaded to Canvas several times a day. If you registered late, you won't be
able to access Canvas until the next upload takes place.
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Purchasing Your Books and Other Course Materials |
While you may purchase your books and other course materials from the provider of your choice (using the
ISBN number available through the course's academic department
where applicable to ensure the correct version), both the campus bookstore
and our online bookstore,
guarantee that they stock the correct version for your course.
Approximately 3 weeks prior to the start of the session you can use the link
below to see the list of books that have been selected by your instructor. If you have
any questions about the course materials listed, please contact your instructor or the academic
department directly.
Click
this link to see the book list for your course.
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Other Information about the Course |
Welcome to Cultural Anthropology!
There are many advantages to taking online courses. You can be anywhere while you take this course, work at any time during the day or night, and you can work and learn at your own pace.
With this being said, your online journey requires self-motivation and self-discipline. You are required to read, review and study the materials at your own pace. Since we do not meet face-to-face, it is important that you communicate with me via email or telephone if have any questions or problems relating to accessing or understanding the course materials, the assignments, and tests.
I look forward to working with you all this semester.
Best, Max Probst
Orientation: There will be orientation information posted on our canvas site to familiarize you with the objectives and requirements of the course.
Course Learning Goals
Students will:
1.describe the unique approach anthropology brings to the social sciences, including the ideas of holism, fieldwork, ethnography, adaptation to the environment, and the multiple subdisciplines (including cultural anthropology), and apply these concepts to specific examples (Social Sciences);
2.articulate the concept of "culture" and use examples to explain its key features as a group's shared, learned, and changing system of beliefs, behaviors, values, and objects (material culture);
3.analyze a particular culture by identifying and describing several of that culture's unique forms of the following common cultural elements: communication, kinship, worldview, marriage and domestic groups, gender, making a living, economics, political structures, stratification, ethnicity, "race" and racism, art and symbolic expression, ritual, and religion (Social Sciences);
4.explain how elements of a culture interact to create a cultural system (using a specific example);
5.apply anthropological concepts to local, national, and/or global contexts to demonstrate an understanding of diverse human perspectives (Diversity); and
6.apply anthropological concepts to analyze and/or address a social problem, explaining the nature of the problem from a cultural standpoint and suggesting possible solutions (Critical Thinking).
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You will need to have access to a computer to participate in the on-line discussion questions and to submit assignments.
Contact With the Professor: Although the majority of the course work is completed individually, regular and frequent contact with me is encouraged and expected. You should feel free to contact me at any time with questions you may have. My office is in Grupp Hall Room 247 on the Newtown campus. My office phone number is 215-968-8274 or if you are on campus dial Ext: 8274. You can e-mail me on our Canvas site - simply go to the "E-Mail" function and click on 'Compose.' You can also send an email to me directly at max.probst@bucks.edu.
We will be utilizing several features of Canvas, but most frequently the "Discussion" tool and the "Quizzes" link, the "Assignments" as well as the course module folders in our course space. Please log into Canvas and review the Student Orientation and Student Materials which are available to students before the start of the semester. The Canvas Basics course can be found at https://bucks.instructure.com/courses/36545. There is no login required.
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