ANTH175

Examine diverse human societies by focusing on cultural behaviors related to health, illness and disease.

Provide critical analysis of contemporary US and global systems of health inequality.

Contextualize their own experience (personally and/or in their own cultural community) with health, healing, disease, and illness.

Apply and critique a variety of cultural perspectives on health and disease.

Examine the relationships of health issues in their own societies to those of people and cultures elsewhere in the world.

Describe similarities and differences in health, healing, disease, and illness across cultures with a focus on comparing different kinds of societies.

Analyze specific health-related issues that occur globally.

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.