This document outlines the syllabus and policies for an introductory anthropology course titled ANTH202 - Meeting 1. It introduces the instructor, Alex, and their background and approach to teaching. It describes the course's flexible and constructivist teaching style. The document outlines the course requirements which include contributions, team exercises, and exams. It provides details on assessments, exams, textbooks, thinking questions, exercises and teamwork expectations. Students are asked to complete a cultural self-survey exercise for the next class.

1. ANTH202 – MEETING 1
January 3, 2011

2. “Intro. to Culture”
What do you think culture is?
What do you expect from this course?
Did you take similar courses?

3. Alex
Anthro background
Ethnographic Disciplines
Informal
Outside Ivory Tower
Geek culture, social media
alex@informalethnographer.com

4. Teaching Approach
Flexibility
Constructivism
Treat as adults

5. Commitment
Working with textbook
Exercises
Teamwork
Individual exercises
Variety in time spent
Gym analogy

6. Policies
Contributions
No extra credit
Teaching assistant
Online submissions
Late penalty

7. Course Requirements
Contributions (20%)
Team exercises (20%)
Exams (60%)

8. Contributions
What each of you brings to the course
“How different would it be if you weren’t there?”
Diverse ways (classroom, online, exercises, communication)
Self-assessed and evaluated
Can keep journal

9. Exams
Mid-Term (March 3)
From “Using This Book” through Chapter 7 (pp. xiii–276)
Final (Exam Period)
Partly “comprehensive”
Mostly on second part (Chapter 8 through Afterword)

10. Thinking Questions
No “True or False”
No “All/None of the Above”
Multiple choice
Matching
Short answers (sentence or two)
Open Questions (paragraph or two)

11. Exercises
Practical approach
Varied (scope, procedure, difficulty, time commitment…)
Weighed by difficulty
Individual exercises (voluntary, ungraded)
Team exercises (required, graded)

12. Teamwork
Replace semester-long project
Change teams before midterm
Put together at end of each section
May assign weeks
Assigned arbitrarily after drop/add
Icebreakers

13. Online
Moodle (currently in guest access)
LearningTwo.org (private)
Blended learning
Online contributions

14. Textbook
Omohundro’s Thinking Like an Anthropologist (83$/62$)
Practical approach
Ethnographic
Exercise-based
Quirky

15. For Wednesday
“Who Are You? A Cultural Self-Survey”
Book
Preface
Using This Book