Introduction to Medical Anthropology
General
Prefix
ANTH
Course Number
175
Course Level
Undergraduate
Department/Unit(s)
College/School
College of Liberal Arts
Description
Anthropological approaches to health, illness, sickness and disease. Biocultural aspects of illness and health across cultures and through time. Critical examination of disparities in contemporary health and healthcare.
Credits
Min
3
Max
3
Repeatable
No
Goals and Diversity
MN Goal Course
Yes
MN Goal Designation(s)
05, 08
Cultural Diversity
No
Learning Outcomes
Outcome
Examine diverse human societies by focusing on cultural behaviors related to health, illness and disease.
Outcome
Provide critical analysis of contemporary US and global systems of health inequality.
Outcome
Contextualize their own experience (personally and/or in their own cultural community) with health, healing, disease, and illness.
Outcome
Apply and critique a variety of cultural perspectives on health and disease.
Outcome
Examine the relationships of health issues in their own societies to those of people and cultures elsewhere in the world.
Outcome
Describe similarities and differences in health, healing, disease, and illness across cultures with a focus on comparing different kinds of societies.
Outcome
Analyze specific health-related issues that occur globally.
Outcome
Reflect on and articulate how an anthropological perspective on global health issues helps them understand and develop their individual roles and responsibilities in a global society.