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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the field of medical anthropology, the study of health and illness across diverse societies. This course examines the causes of health disparities and inequalities, various cultural meanings of illness and body, and relationships between biological and social factors in disease and sickness. Topics include COVID-19, HIV/AIDS, infectious disease, chronic illness, mental health, pharmaceuticals, environmental health, among other topics. Particular interest for students interested in medicine, public health, nursing, and other health professions.
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3.00 Credits
Global health is a defining social and political movement of our time. Examines different health and illness conditions in diverse social and cultural settings and the efforts to improve health around the world. Topics include major global health problems, health disparities and inequalities, health care access, community-based health care, and health justice. Particular interest for students interested in medicine, public health, nursing, and other health professions.
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3.00 Credits
People's cultures, health, and environments are intimately connected. Cultural beliefs and behaviors shape people's health and their environment. Health issues shape cultural responses to risk and decisions about the environment. Environments impact cultural perceptions and people's health. Understanding these influences, interactions, and connections is crucial to navigating today's world. This class will cover relationships between culture, health, and environment, including questions about inequality, inequity, food, agriculture, disasters, pollution, and climate change.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of the evolution of human reproduction and sex differences. Evidence derived from the human fossil record, living non-human primates, modern biological differences between human males and females and cross-cultural comparisons of reproductive behavior and sex roles.
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3.00 Credits
Concerned with the nature of human biological variation in modern populations around the world including the evolutionary forces that shape us both physically and physiologically and the interaction of that biology with our adaptation as a cultural species.
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3.00 Credits
Nutritional Anthropology takes an explicit biocultural approach to nutrition, examining the interaction of biology and culture as they affect food systems, customs, practices and nutrition. Specific foci of the course include: evolutionary and comparative perspectives (biological baseline, agriculture, contemporary food systems); why we eat what we eat (materialist, symbolic explanations for foodways); adaptation of food to people and people to food; foods as medicines; under- and over-nutrition in contemporary world; child and infant feeding, hunger; solutions to diet-related problems.
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3.00 Credits
This course allows students to understand the cultural construction of gender, power, and sexuality in relation to global economic processes that connect the family, household, and intimate relations to the world of work, commerce, and the global economy. It will demonstrate to students how what have long been considered "intimate" social relations have become geographically dispersed, impersonal, mediated by and implicated in broader political-economic or capitalist processes. Students can systematically compare their lives as women and men with those of others around the world using social-science perspectives and increase their understanding of the gendered aspects of the dynamics of global cultural and economic interaction. Students will be able to apply theories of intersectionality and feminism as well as perform critical analyses of socioeconomic dimensions of gendered lives in local and global contexts.
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3.00 Credits
Examines topics in global pharmaceuticals, including antidepressants, lifestyle drugs, medicalization, media advertising, brain science, ethical issues in medical research, the clinical treatment of children, and health care access. This course is of particular interest for students interested in medicine, public health, nursing, and other health professions.
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3.00 Credits
Using examples from China, Japan, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East, examines how lives of Asian women have been constructed by cultural, historical, and international forces and seeks to understand and challenge culturally pervasive stereotypes that define their lives.
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3.00 Credits
Views tourism as an international industry, a cultural practice and a phenomenon of globalization. Examines such topics as tourism and modernity, sexual and romantic tourism, ecotourism and environmental tourism, tourism and "authenticity".
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