ANTH 283 Introduction to Medical Anthropology

Examines human health and healing systems from evolutionary and cross-cultural perspectives. Using a case study approach, explores individual- and population-level experiences of illness and healing, while providing the tools to evaluate global disease patterns and international health promotion and education programs.

Credits

Notes

Lower Division Transfer (LDT) Course

General Education Requirements

AAOT Social Science, AGS Social Science,AS Difference, Power, & Oppression: Foundations

Outcomes

Analyze the origins, historical contexts, and implications of contemporary global issues. Explain the complex nature and interdependence of contemporary global issues using a multi-disciplinary approach. Articulate in writing a critical perspective on contemporary global issues using evidence as support. Explain how ascribed differences are socially constructed, change over time, and impact our and others’ lived experiences. Articulate– using historical and contemporary examples – how ascribed differences, combined with inequitable distribution of power across cultural, economic, social, and/or political institutions, result in racism and intersect with other forms of systemic oppression. Describe how assets and resilience demonstrated by members of systematically marginalized communities and cultures play a role in dismantling racism and other systems of oppression.