The general objectives of this curriculum are to provide the student with:

1. A sense of the wide range and variability of human cultures;
2. An understanding of culture as a holistic and integrated system;
3. An understanding of the origins and evolutionary development of humans and their cultures;
4. An appreciation of how anthropological insights and methodologies can be used to address contemporary human problems;
5. A respect for other ways of life and an understanding of ethnocentrism;
6. A deeper understanding of the student's own culture as seen in contrast to other cultures.