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.
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.