Undergraduate Programs
MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
GENERAL INFORMATION / MAJOR REQUIREMENTS / MINOR REQUIREMENTS
GENERAL INFORMATION
The undergraduate Medical major in 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.
MAJOR REQUIREMENTS
| COURSE | COURSE DESCRIPTION |
| ANTH 102 | Being Human: Intro to Social & Cultural Anthropology |
| ANTH 103 | Introduction to Human Evolution |
| ANTH 215 | Health, Culture, and Disease: An Introduction to Medical Anthropology |
| ANTH 319 | Intro to Statistical Analysis in Social Sciences/ or equivalent |
At least one course dealing with a geographic area, such as
| COURSE | COURSE DESCRIPTION |
| ANTH 331 | Ancient Civilizations of the Near East |
| ANTH 349 | Cultures of Latin America |
| ANTH 353 | Chinese Culture and Society |
At least three courses dealing with health-related topics such as
| COURSE | COURSE DESCRIPTION |
| ANTH 301 | Biological Aging in Humans |
| ANTH 302 | Darwinian Medicine |
| ANTH 304 | Introduction to the Anthropology of Aging |
| ANTH 306 | The Anthropology of Childhood and the Family |
| ANTH 313 | The Anthropology of Adolescence |
| ANTH 317 | Asian Medical Systems |
| ANTH 318 | Death and Dying |
| ANTH 323 | AIDS: Epidemiology, Biology, and Culture |
| ANTH 335 | Illegal Drugs and Society |
| ANTH 338 | Maternal Health |
| ANTH 343 | Psychoanalytic Anthropology |
| ANTH 359 | Introduction to International Health |
| ANTH 361 | Urban Health |
| ANTH 363 | Anthropology and Bioethics |
| ANTH 369 | Anthropology of Nutrition |
| ANTH 371 | Culture, Behavior and Person: Psychological Anthropology |
| ANTH 376 | Topics in the Anthropology of Health and Medicine |
| ANTH 393 | Human Ecology: The Biology of Human Adaptability |
| ANTH 397 | Epidemiology and the Evolution of Human Disease |
| Approved anthropology electives: 6 semester hours | |
MINOR REQUIREMENTS
| COURSE | COURSE DESCRIPTION |
| ANTH 102 | Being Human: Intro to Social & Cultural Anthropology |
| ANTH 103 | Introduction to Human Evolution |
| ANTH 215 | Health, Culture, and Disease: An Introduction to Medical Anthropology |
| At least one geographic area course | |
| At least one health science related course | |
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