General Information
The undergraduate concentration in medical anthropology focuses on understanding health issues cross-culturally. It provides students with the basic foundational knowledge of anthropology and then trains them to investigate, analyze, and communicate information about how socio-cultural, biological, cognitive, economic and techno-environmental factors determine patterns of disease, medical behavior, and the organization of and access to health care services.
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MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY MAJOR REQUIREMENTS Minimum requirement of 10 courses | 30 credits |
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| COURSE: | COURSE DESCRIPTION: | CREDITS: |
| Required core courses | 12 | |
| ANTH 102 | Being Human: Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology | 3 |
| ANTH 103 | Introduction to Human Evolution | 3 |
| ANTH 215 | Health, Culture, and Disease: An Introduction to Medical Anthropology | 3 |
| ANTH 319 | Introduction to Statistical Analysis in Social Sciences/or equivalent | 3 |
| At least one course dealing with a geographic area, such as | 3 | |
| ANTH 202 | Archaeology of Eastern North America | 3 |
| ANTH 312 | Ethnography of Southeast Asia | 3 |
| ANTH 314 | Cultures of the United States | 3 |
| ANTH 331 | The Most Ancient Near East | 3 |
| ANTH 333 | Roots of Ancient India: Archaeology of South Asia | 3 |
| ANTH 349 | Cultures of Latin America | 3 |
| ANTH 353 | Chinese Culture and Society | 3 |
| At least three courses dealing with health-related topics, such as | 9 | |
| ANTH 302 | Darwinian Medicine | 3 |
| ANTH 316 | Current Global Health Events | 3 |
| ANTH 323 | AIDS: Epidemiology, Biology, and Culture | 3 |
| ANTH 326 | Power, Illness, and Inequality: The Political Economy of Health | 3 |
| ANTH 328 | Medical Anthropology and Public Health | 3 |
| ANTH 335 | Illegal Drugs and Society | 3 |
| ANTH 337 | Comparative Medical Systems | 3 |
| ANTH 338 | Maternal Health: Anthropological Perspectives on Reproductive Practices and Health Policy | 3 |
| ANTH 354 | Health and Healing in East Asia | 3 |
| ANTH 359 | Introduction to Global Health | 3 |
| ANTH 376 | Topics in the Anthropology of Health and Medicine | 3 |
| Approved anthropology electives (Minimum two courses) | 6 | |
| Total Credits | 30 | |
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MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY MINOR REQUIREMENTS Minimum requirement of 5 courses | 15 credits |
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| COURSE: | COURSE DESCRIPTION: | CREDITS: |
| Required core courses | 9 | |
| ANTH 102 | Being Human: Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology | 3 |
| ANTH 103 | Introduction to Human Evolution | 3 |
| ANTH 215 | Health, Culture, and Disease: An Introduction to Medical Anthropology | 3 |
| At least one geographic area course AND one course dealing with health-related topics | 6 | |
| Total Credits | 15 | |
Click here for a PDF version of Medical Anthropology course requirements and a list of approved electives.