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. Recommended: ANTH 101 Introduction to Anthropology or ANTH 110 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology.
Notes
Lower Division Transfer (LDT) Course
General Education Requirements
AAOT Social Science, AGS Social Science,AS Difference, Power, & Oppression: Foundations
Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
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.