Medical Anthropology

Minor Requirements 18-20 Credits

• Introductory Perspectives: (6 cr.)

• ANT 101 - Introduction to Human Evolution (3 cr.)
• ANT 102 - Contemporary Cultures (3 cr.)

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• Medical Anthropology: (3 cr.)

• ANT 250 - Medical Anthropology (3 cr.)

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• Topical Courses in cultures, health and illness: (9-11 cr.)

  Students will take three additional courses focusing on aspects of human health, illness and disease. At least one of these must be from within anthropology, and at least one from outside anthropology. Students should choose at least one course from each of the following lists:

  Anthropology courses:

• ANT 308 - Forensic Anthropology (3 cr.)
• ANT 318 - Anthropology of Human Rights (3 cr.)
• ANT 332 - The Archaeology of Death (3 cr.)
• ANT 335 - Plagues, People, and History (3 cr.)
• ANT 336 - Civilization and Health (3 cr.)
• ANT 339 - Psychological Anthropology (3 cr.)
• ANT 368 - Anthropology of Food (3 cr.)

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  Cognate courses:

• BIO 326 - Human Anatomy & Physiology I (4 cr.)
• BIO 338 - Neurobiology (4 cr.)
• BIO 339 - Biology of Aging (3 cr.)
• BIO 346 - Human Physiological Adaptation (3 cr.)
• CMM 303 - Health Communication (3 cr.)
• CRI 304 - Mental Health and the Criminal Justice System (3 cr.)
• CRI 371 - Substance Abuse and the Criminal Justice System (3 cr.)
• FNI 191 - Nutrition and Well-Being (3 cr.)
• FNI 241 - Nutrition in the Life Cycle (3 cr.)
• HIS 3352 - Global History of Health, Healing and Disease (3 cr.)
• HIS 367 - Gender and Race in the History of Medicine in the United States (3 cr.)
• PSY 361 - Social Psychology (3 cr.)
• PSY 461 - Evolutionary Psychology (3 cr.)
• SOC 315 - Sociology of Health and Medicine (3 cr.)