Introduction to Anthropology Learning Outcomes

Subject specific

• Basic knowledge & understanding of some relevant concepts (mental representation, psychological dispositions, cultural context, acquisition of social knowledge, modules and modularity, domain-specificity, cognition and culture)
• Social and individual contexts of cognition; procedures of cognition;
• Domain-specificity in cognition and culture: acquisition of domain-specific knowledge in cultural contexts (folk biology, folk psycholology)
• Cognitive foundations of social classifications (race and ethnicity)

Methodological

• Basic knowledge and understanding of methods and theories in the mutual co-operation of (cognitive) psychology and anthropology
• Competently applying critical and interdisciplinary thinking

Generic

• Ability to understand cognitive foundations of cultural facts
• Orientation in multicultural situations
• Communicative consciousness
• Improvement of social responsibility

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