This course provides an introductory overview of Cultural Anthropology.  We begin by defining anthropology, its various subfields and core concepts, and then examine topics such as the evolution of modern humans, the ethnographic method, ethics, and the concept of culture.  We then shift our focus to look cross-culturally at the various dimensions of human societies, including different languages, political and kinship systems, genders and religions.  Our course concludes with a critical discussion of anthropology’s uncomfortable relationship with colonialism and we explore some of the new types of applied anthropological research that have emerged in recent years.