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Bonnie Bade, Ph.D.
Professor of Medical Anthropology
Director, Anthropology Program
California State University San Marcos
College of Arts and Sciences
San Marcos, California 92096-0001 USA
Tel: 760 750-4124
[email protected]
21 September 2007
1.) Anthropology Student Learning Outcomes Fall 2007 New Program
1. Know what the human universals are: we/they dichotomy; sex; gender; world
view concepts of self and other, relationship, classification, causation, space and
time; subsistence (economic production and environmental interaction); political
organization; social organization; kinship; religion.
2. Be able to understand, converse about and write about human phenomena from an
anthropological perspective: holism; evolutionary (historical, change over time);
cultural integration (how beliefs, economies, political structures, gender, etc. are
interrelated and influence each other); cross cultural comparison of human
phenomena;
3. Be able to understand, converse about and write about culture in terms of its
learned, symbolic, dynamic, and integrated nature. Be able to understand that
culture is ideas and that ideas inform behavior and that within cultural context
behavior is logical.
4. Define the emic (believer, adherent, member) and etic (outsider, non-member,)
perspectives and know the role of the anthropologist in bridging the two.
5. Identify the ethical issues surrounding anthropological investigation and the
relationship between the anthropologist and the subject or subjects.
6. Be able to work collaboratively with local organizations and agencies on longterm community-based research projects involving ethnographic field research,
quantitative data collection through survey interviews, some quantitative data
analysis, qualitative data analysis, literature research, write up, and presentation of
work.
2.) Communication of student learning outcomes takes place in all courses of the
Anthropology Major. The above concepts and practices of anthropology will be
introduced in lower division anthropology courses as preparation for the major,
reinforced in 300-level Foundational Anthropology courses for the major, and applied in
the 400-level upper-division field research courses. All anthropology course descriptions
refer specifically to the above stated student learning outcomes and course syllabi further
articulate student learning outcomes.
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3.) The Two Student Learning Outcomes that Anthropology will focus on for
assessment this year are:
1. Be able to understand, converse about and write about human phenomena from an
anthropological perspective: holism; evolutionary (historical, change over time);
cultural integration (how beliefs, economies, political structures, gender, etc. are
interrelated and influence each other); cross cultural comparison of human
phenomena;
2. Be able to understand, converse about and write about culture in terms of its
learned, symbolic, dynamic, and integrated nature. Be able to understand that
culture is ideas and that ideas inform behavior and that within cultural context
behavior is logical.
4.) Assessment Activities to measure program student learning include:
1. Publication of ANTH 440 Farmworker Health Ethnography report on health
status of San Diego agricultural workers and resulting from student-conducted
ethnographic and quantitative research, student-written results of research, and
student-authored report of findings.
2. Spring 2008 Anthropology course pre- and post-course survey regarding
foundational anthropological concepts and practices.
5.) Materials to support Anthropology’s assessment activities this year include support
for the publication of the San Diego County Agricultural Workers Health Survey (SDCAWHS) in the form of manuscript editing, review, layout and printing. Publication of
this work is a follow up to the landmark 2000 Suffering in Silence report of the CAWHS
published by The California Endowment. Approximately $8000 is needed for edit,
review, layout and printing of the report.