Not open to students electing the Science, Technology, and Society academic minor in the Residential College.
The academic minor in Medical Anthropology allows students to focus on the social basis of illness and healing from different cultural perspectives. The academic minor might be elected by students interested in client-practitioner interactions, traditional and complementary medicine, the production of medical knowledge, body politics, bioethics, and reproductive health, among other topics. It might also be relevant for those students interested in adding anthropological perspectives to their preparation for a career in medicine, public health, and other health sciences.
Prerequisites to the Academic Minor: Anthrcul 101 or 222 (recommended).
Academic Minor Program: At least five courses (no fewer than 16 credits) from courses to be chosen from the following categories as stated:
- ANTHRCUL 244, Introduction to Medical Anthropology: Systems of Health and Healing (4 credit hours) (formerly ANTHRCUL 344)
- Choose four courses from the following list:
· ANTHRBIO 363, Genes, Disease, and Culture (4)
· ANTHRBIO 364, Nutrition & Evolution (4)
· ANTHRBIO 462, Human Growth and Development across the Life Cycle (4)
· ANTHRCUL 256, Culture, Adaptation and Environment (3)
· ANTHRCUL 258, Culture & Medicine (3)
· ANTHRCUL 325/WGS 324, Childbirth & Culture (4)
· ANTHRCUL 327, Critical Theory in Medicine and Healing (4)
· ANTHRCUL 337, Death, Dying and the Afterlife (4)
· ANTHRCUL 341, The Globalization of Biomedicine (4)
· ANTHRCUL 342/ANTHRBIO 342, Nature/Culture Now! (4)
· ANTHRCUL 352, Anthropology of the Body (3)
· ANTHRCUL 354/HISTART 354, Art, Science, and Technology (3)
· AAS 365/WGS 365, Global Perspectives on Gender, Health, & Reproduction (3)
· HISTORY/AAS/ANTHRCUL 355, Health & Illness in African Worlds
The minor must include at least 2 courses at the 300-level or above.
Please note: courses used for this minor must be either offered in the Department of Anthropology or taught by an anthropologist in another department. No other courses outside of this department will be approved.