# Anthropology (ANTH) courses MiraCosta College · 2026-2027 Catalog · 11 courses Source: https://catalog.miracosta.edu/disciplines/anthropology/ "Offered" lists sections in this catalog year's class schedules: Fall 2026. ### ANTH C1001 — Introduction to Biological Anthropology - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** Lecture 3 hours - **C-ID:** ANTH-110 - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC (with credit limitation) - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 9 sections (/c/miracosta-college/schedule/fall-2026/anth.md) - Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in ANTH 101, ANTH C1001H, or ANTH 101H. - Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer In this course, students examine human origins, evolution, and variation with a focus on the adaptations of humans and other primates. Biological evolution and scientific methods are foundations for the course. Formerly ANTH 101. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for ANTH 101 or ANTH 101H. C-ID ANTH-110. ### ANTH C1001H — Introduction to Biological Anthropology - Honors - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** Lecture 3 hours - **C-ID:** ANTH-110 - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC (with credit limitation) - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/miracosta-college/schedule/fall-2026/anth.md) - Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in ANTH 101, ANTH C1001, or ANTH 101H. - Course Typically Offered: Fall odd years In this course, students examine human origins, evolution, and variation with a focus on the adaptations of humans and other primates. Biological evolution and scientific methods are foundations for the course. This is an honors course. Formerly ANTH 101H. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for ANTH 101 or ANTH 101H. C-ID ANTH-110. ### ANTH C1001L — Biological Anthropology Lab - **Units:** 1 - **Hours:** Laboratory 3 hours - **Corequisite:** ANTH C1001 or ANTH C1001H - **C-ID:** ANTH-115L - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 5 sections (/c/miracosta-college/schedule/fall-2026/anth.md) - Enrollment Limitation: Students who have not completed ANTH C1001 or ANTH C1001H must enroll concurrently. Not open to students with prior credit in ANTH 101LH. - Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer In this laboratory course, students investigate the anatomy, genetics, behavior, variation, and evolution of humans and other primates. Students apply the scientific method and use interactive exercises in this course supplement to the Introduction to Biological Anthropology lecture course. Formerly ANTH 101L. C-ID ANTH-115L. ### ANTH 102 — Cultural Anthropology - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** Lecture 3 hours - **C-ID:** ANTH-120 - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 3 sections (/c/miracosta-college/schedule/fall-2026/anth.md) - Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in ANTH 102H. - Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer This course explores how anthropologists study and compare human cultures, including variation in subsistence patterns, social and political organization, economic systems, systems of communication, kinship and family structure, belief systems, aesthetic expression, and recognition of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. Cultural anthropology also explores how cultures have been impacted by colonialism and are being shaped by globalization and demonstrates the value of the discipline in the form of applied anthropology. Anthropologists employ high ethical standards while exploring diversity in human culture and highlight the importance of understanding and appreciating that diversity. C-ID ANTH-120. ### ANTH 103 — Introduction to Archaeology - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** Lecture 3 hours - **C-ID:** ANTH-150 - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/miracosta-college/schedule/fall-2026/anth.md) - Course Typically Offered: Fall This course explores archaeological theory and method, including techniques of field excavations and laboratory analysis. It also uses archaeological data to understand cultures of the past, including Stone Age lifeways, early farming cultures, and emergent civilizations around the world, such as the ancient Egyptians, Maya, and Inca. The course also examines current issues in cultural resource management, ethics in archaeology, and the role of archaeology within the broader field of anthropology. C-ID ANTH-150. ### ANTH 105 — Evolution of Human Behavior - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** Lecture 3 hours - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/miracosta-college/schedule/fall-2026/anth.md) - Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in ANTH 105H. - Course Typically Offered: Fall This course explores the biological basis and evolutionary value of human behavior. Students explore current research in genetics and epigenetics, neuroanatomy and endocrinology, along with studies of human culture and animal behavior, to understand phenomena such as human emotions, personality, parenting strategies, mating behaviors, and lifetime responses to stress. ### ANTH 107 — Gender, Sex, and Sexuality - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** Lecture 3 hours - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/miracosta-college/schedule/fall-2026/anth.md) - Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring This course explores and compares the diverse cultural categories of gender and sex, including their grounding in biological functions, belief systems, kinship, and popular representation across the globe. It explores sexuality as more than a biological process, viewing sexuality as a human cultural expression. This course contextualizes gender, sex, and sexuality within broader cultural systems as well as global interactions to understand how these categories are shaped and, in turn, shape our lives. ### ANTH 120 — Global Health - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** Lecture 3 hours - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/miracosta-college/schedule/fall-2026/anth.md) - Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring This course explores contemporary human health problems around the world, focusing on economic, political, historical, sociocultural, and environmental factors that underlie disparities. Global health analyzes the causes and consequences of the unequal burden of disease and disability, including infectious disease, climate change, women's health, and food insecurity. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this course introduces major concepts, principles, and research methodology in global health. ### ANTH 135 — Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** Lecture 3 hours - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring This course explores small-scale and customary supernatural beliefs, practices, and traditions from prehistory to the present. Focusing on indigenous and alternative spiritualities around the world, topics include shamanism; mysticism and divination; mortuary rituals; brujeria and magic; Vodou, Santeria, and other indigenous and syncretic religions; Paganism; supernatural healing including Curandurismo; magico-religious art; Vedic, Chinese, and Western astrology; peyote and other sacred entheogens; and new religious movements (NRMs). ### ANTH 190 — Primate Behavior and Ecology - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** Lecture 3 hours - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule - Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in ANTH 190H. - Course Typically Offered: Spring This course explores principles of animal behavior and ecology from an evolutionary perspective. Topics include predator avoidance, foraging strategies, mating behaviors, mother-infant bonding, the development of social groups, culture and cognition, and current issues in conservation. The course also emphasizes research methodology through a semester-long project observing primates at the San Diego Zoo or through online alternatives. ### ANTH 292 — Internship Studies - **Units:** 0.5-14 - **Corequisite:** Complete 54 hours of work per unit, paid or unpaid - **Transfers to:** CSU - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/miracosta-college/schedule/fall-2026/anth.md) - Enrollment Limitation: Instructor, dept chair, and Career Center approval. Fourteen unit maximum in any combination of work experience education and/or internship studies per semester. - Course Typically Offered: To be arranged This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment.