This course will expose students to the information and perspectives generated in the interdisciplinary field of anthropology. Broadly speaking, anthropologists explore the unfolding global story of humankind through time in its fullest biological and social complexity. In their research, theory, and practice, anthropologists continually develop and revise a comprehensive "holistic" understanding of human origins, human capacity for culture, and past and contemporary human cultural diversity and similarity. "Culture" is the primary concept which provides thematic focus in anthropology and this class will explore the concept through a survey of the four major sub-fields of anthropology. In this exploration, students can discover innovative and novel explanations for and evidence of, among other things, human evolutionary adaptation and the development and scope of past and present cultural diversity including variation in subsistence strategies, group formation, stratification, religion and more. This course seeks primarily to cultivate in students an "anthropological imagination" which denotes the ability to see contemporary human life as part of an unfolding expanse of time, circumstance, and human world-building. The anthropological imagination places students' personal lives within the broad context of the human species revealing an origin story, a history, and an illumination of recent human-built worlds. Through this imagination, one can see the world, one's society, one's life, and the lives of others in a new light. The development of this imagination, aided by the knowledge, perspectives, and debates of anthropology, can assist with the appreciation of similarity and diversity among the world's peoples, with the carrying out of any future job tasks involving human interaction, and with the understanding of one's life.