2023-2024 Catalog

Medical Anthropology Minor

The minor in medical anthropology consists of a minimum of 19 credit hours (five courses), as follows:

Course Requirements

Courses

CourseTitleCreditsOffered
ANTH 101Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

4

Fall, Spring.
ANTH 103Introduction to Biological Anthropology

4

Spring.
ANTH 309Medical Anthropology

4

Alternate years.

TWO ADDITIONAL COURSES from the following list (ONE must be from ANTH):

CourseTitleCreditsOffered
ANTH 237Measuring Inequality, Analyzing Injustice

4

Annually.
ANTH 301/ENST 301Ethnobotany

4

Alternate years.
ANTH 304Human Paleontology

4

Alternate years.
ANTH 307Human Nature: Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior

4

Fall, Spring.
ANTH 329Queer And Trans Anthropology

4

Alternate years.
ANTH 343Environmental Anthropology

4

Alternate years.
ANTH 347Environmental Justice

4

Alternate years.
ANTH 402Evolution of the Capacity for Culture

4

Alternate years.
BIOL 231Human Anatomy

4

Fall, Spring, Summer.
BIOL 314Genetics

4

Fall.
CHEM 105General, Organic and Biological Chemistry I

4

Fall, Spring, Summer.
HCA 201WIntroduction to Health Care Systems

3

Fall, Spring, Summer.
HPE 101Human Sexuality

3

Fall, Spring, Summer.
HPE 202WCommunity/Public Health and Health Promotion

3

Fall, Spring.
HPE 233Social and Global Perspectives on Health

3

Fall, Spring, Summer.
HSCI 232Human Genetics

4

Fall.
SOC 217Sociology of Aging

4

Fall, Spring, Summer.
SOC 314The Sociology of Health and Illness

4

Annually.
SOC 321Sociology of the Body

4

Annually.
Note: BIOL 314, BIOL 231: May require additional prerequisite course.

Total Credit Hours: 19-27