Indicated resources are samples. Find a complete curated collection at Open Educational Resources and Anthropology and available OER for all disciplines at OER by Discipline. Please note that the structure presented here aligns with the Anthropology TMC; local Associate Degrees for Transfer will be different as the TMC introduces flexibility (e.g., “select three units”) from List A and beyond.
“Core” Courses
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (C-ID ANTH 120)
- Introduction to Anthropology (Hasty, Lewis, and Snipes, 2022) – OpenStax (CC BY)
- Introduction to Anthropology: Holistic and Applied Research on Being Human (Palmiotto, Homsey-Messer, Ford, Poole, Adams, Allard, and Chadwick, 2022) (CC BY-SA)
- Cultural Anthropology (Saneda and Field, 2020) – LibreTexts (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0)
- Perspectives: An Open Invitation to Cultural Anthropology, 2nd Edition (Brown, Tubelle de Gonzalez, and McIlwraith – American Anthropological Association, 2020) (CC-BY-NC 4.0)
- The Art of Being Human: A Textbook for Cultural Anthropology (Wesch – New Prairie Press, 2018) (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Introduction to Biological Anthropology (C-ID ANTH 110) or Introduction to Biological Anthropology (C-ID ANTH 110) and Biological Anthropology Laboratory (C-ID ANTH 115L)
Lecture
- Explorations: An Open Invitation to Biological Anthropology Second Edition (Shook, Nelson, Braff, and Aguilera – American Anthropological Association, 2023) (CC BY-NC)
- Biological Anthropology: A Brief Introduction (Saneda and Field, 2022) (CC-BY-NC-SA)
- Introduction to Anthropology (Hasty, Lewis, and Snipes, 2022) – OpenStax (CC BY)
- Introduction to Anthropology: Holistic and Applied Research on Being Human (Palmiotto, Homsey-Messer, Ford, Poole, Adams, Allard, and Chadwick, 2022) (CC BY-SA)
- Introduction to Physical Anthropology (Schoenberg, 2021) (CC BY-NC)
- The History of Our Tribe: Hominini (Welker, 2017) (CC-BY-NC-SA)
- Becoming Human: How Evolution Made Us (Downey, 2013) (CC-BY-NC 3.0)
Lab
- Explorations: An Open Invitation to Biological Anthropology – Lab Manual (Shook, Nelson, Braff, and Aguilera – American Anthropological Association, 2021) (CC BY-NC 4.0)
- General Biology Labs (Burran and DesRochers, 2015) – LibreTexts (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0)
- Biological Anthropology – Laboratory Activities (Taub, 2010) – LibreTexts (CC BY-NC-SA)
Introduction to Archaeology (C-ID ANTH 150)
- Traces: An Open Invitation to Archaeology (Donahue, Ray, Scarborough, and Zovar – Whatcom Community College, FORTHCOMING) (CC BY)
- Archaeology (Ruth, 2023) – LibreTexts (CC BY-NC-SA)
- Digging into Archaeology: A Brief OER Introduction to Archaeology with Activities (Paskey and Cisneros, 2020) – LibreTexts (CC BY-NC)
- Introduction to Archaeology: A Workbook (Lemke, 2020) – LibreTexts (CC BY-NC-SA)
- Writing as Material Practice – Substance, Surface and Medium (Piquette et al., 2013) – LibreTexts (CC BY-SA)
List A – Select one (3 units):
Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology (C-ID ANTH 130)
There are no specified OER for Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology. However, some instructors may find the following OER useful for parts of this course.
- Languages and Worldview (Allard-Kropp, 2024) (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
- Essentials of Linguistics, 2nd Edition (Anderson et al., 2022) (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Introduction to Statistics (3) (C-ID MATH 110) or Introduction to Statistics in Sociology (3) (C-ID SOCI 125)
- Statistics for Social Justice Studies (Blustein, et al., ASCCC OERI) (CC BY-NC-SA)
- OpenIntro Statistics (Diez, Barr, and Cetinkaya-Rundel) (CC BY-SA)
- Statistics Using Technology (Kozak) (CC BY-SA) – Coconino Community College website
- Introductory Statistics (OpenStax) – LibreTexts (CC BY 4.0)
- Foundations in Statistical Reasoning (Kaslik) – LibreTexts (CC BY-SA-NC)
- Statistics for the Social Sciences (Pelz, Lumen Learning) (License varies)
- PSPP (CC BY-NC-SA)
List B – Select two (6 units):
Any courses not selected from List A.
Any CSU transferable anthropology course
None identified.
Any other course from Cal-GETC Area 3 and/or 4 emphasizing Human Culture
None identified.
Any Social Science course in Cal-GETC Area 4 or Area 6
None identified.
List C – Select one (2-4 units):
Any course not selected from List A or List B
Philosophy of Science
None identified.
Human Anatomy with Lab (C-ID BIOL 110B)
- General Human Anatomy (Lange et al.) (CC BY-NC-SA)
- Human Anatomy Lab Manual (Wilk-Blasczak, 2018) – Mavs Open Press (CC BY 4.0 International)
- Human Anatomy Laboratory Manual (Librande, 2022) – OERCommons (CC-BY-SA)
- Human Anatomy (Menefee et al., 2021) – LibreTexts (CC-BY)
Physical Geology and Physical Geology Laboratory or Physical Geology with Lab (C-ID GEOL 100/100L or 101)
- Phyiscal Geology Laboratory (Johnson) (CC BY-SA)
- GEOS: A Physical Geology Lab Manual for California Community Colleges (Branciforte and Haddad, 2021) – LibreTexts (CC BY-SA)
- Laboratory Manual for Introductory Geology (Deline, Harris, and Tefend, 2019) (CC BY-NC-SA)
- An Introduction to Geology (Johnson, Affolter, Inkenbrandt, and Mosher, 2019)
- Physical Geology – 2e (Earle, 2019) (CC BY)
- The Dynamic Earth (Kious and Tilling, 2022) – LibreTexts (CC BY-SA)
- Introduction to Physical Geology (Staff, Miracosta College)
- Fundamentals of Geology (Schulte) (CC BY 4.0)
- Physical Geology (Panchuk, 2021) – First University of Saskatchewan Edition (CC BY)
Earth Science and Earth Science Laboratory or Earth Science with Lab (C-ID GEOL 120/120L or 121)
- Introduction to Earth Science (C-ID: GEOL 121) (Coalinga College) (CC BY-NC-SA)
- Introduction to Earth Science, Second Edition (Neser, 2025) (CC BY-NC-SA)
- Physical Geography Lab Manual (Ray et al., 2020) (CC BY-NC 4.0) – LibreTexts
- The Physical Environment: An OER Geography Textbook (Ritter, 2020) (CC BY-SA)
Environmental Geology and Environmental Geology Laboratory or Environmental Geology with Lab (C-ID GEOL 130/130L or 131)
Introduction to Geographic Information Systems and Techniques, with Lab (C-ID GEOG 155)
- Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (Dastrup) (CC BY)
- Nature of Geographic Information Systems (DiBiase, Pennsylvania State University, 2014)
- Essentials of Geographic Information Systems (Campbell and Shin, 2011) (CC BY-NC-SA)
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