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Minor in Medical Anthropology
Program Description
The
minor in
medical anthropology provides students
with training that covers the breadth of the field.
The objective of this program is to train future medical
anthropologists, physicians, nurses, PAs, and other health
professionals to recognize and understand the complex relationships between
health and social, cultural, psychological, biological, economic, and
environmental determinants, and to evaluate how
health services are organized and delivered.
Students minoring in medical anthropology are
introduced
to the literature and methods of medical anthropology, and topics such as
the social history of sickness and medicine, medical ethics, complementary
and alternative therapies, and the medical humanities.
This
minor enables students to become competitive applicants to programs that continue their
graduate education, such as medical school, nursing school, physician
assistant programs, occupational therapy, clinical psychology, or graduate
programs in anthropology, sociology, international and public health,
community development, and more.
Flexibility is build into the medical anthropology minor to
allow students to choose from a diversity of advanced support courses in
sociology, applied gerontology, psychology, biology, philosophy, and religious
studies.
Program
Curriculum
Foundation
Courses (6
credit hours)
Choose 2 of these courses:
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ANTH 1010
Introduction to Anthropology |
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ANTH 2250
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology |
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ANTH 2700
Introduction to Physical Anthropology |
Core
Courses (3 credit hours)
Choose 1 of these courses:
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ANTH 4600-005
Medical Anthropology |
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ANTH 4610-012
Holistic Health and Alternative Healing Systems
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Advanced
Concepts (6 credit hours)
Choose
2 of these courses:
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ANTH 4600-005
Medical Anthropology (providing the course has not been taken
previously as a “Core” course) |
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ANTH 4600-006
Forensic Anthropology |
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ANTH 4600-007
Human Adaptation |
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ANTH 4600-008
Disease Around the World |
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ANTH 4610-006
Human Sexuality |
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ANTH 4610-010
Drug Use and Culture |
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ANTH 4610-012
Holistic Health and Alternative Healing Systems (providing the
course has not been taken previously as a “core” course) |
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ANTH 4610-017
Multicultural Issues in Health |
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ANTH 4900
Special Problems (to focus on medical issues) |
Advanced
Support Courses (3 credit hours)
Choose
1 of these courses:
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Sociology |
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SOCI 3110 Sociology
of Mental Health, Mental Illness and Mental Health Care |
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SOCI 3120 Sociology
of Health and Illness |
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SOCI 4550 Sociology
of Aging |
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SOCI 4250
Sex Roles: Male and Female in Contemporary Society |
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Applied
Gerontology |
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AGER 3480 Psychology of Adult Development and Aging |
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AGER 4020 Psychology of Death and Dying |
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AGER 4750 Sexuality and Aging |
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Behavior Analysis |
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BEHV 3200
Science and Human Behavior |
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Philosophy
and Religious Studies |
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PHIL 1400 (2306)
Introduction to Contemporary Moral Issues |
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Psychology |
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PSYC 2580 Health Psychology |
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Biology |
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BIOL 2401 Human Anatomy and Physiology I |
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BIOL 3350
Human Heredity (providing course prerequisites have been met) |
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