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Medical Anthropology Minor
Program type:
Minor
Format:
On Campus
Est. time to complete:
2-3 semesters
Credit Hours:
18
Add to your education by learning more about how different cultures and societies
approach and are impacted by health and sickness.
The Medical Anthropology Minor Program at UNT will provide non-Anthropology major
students with broad training covering the breadth of the field.
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Request More InfoWhy Earn a Medical Anthropology Minor?
The objective of the program is to train future medical anthropologists, physicians, nurses, PA's, and other health professionals to recognize and understand the complex relationships that exist between social, cultural, psychological, biological, economic, and environmental determinants and health, and to analyze and evaluate how contemporary health services are organized and delivered.
Students minoring in medical anthropology will be introduced to the literature and methods of medical anthropology, and topics such as the social history of sickness and medicine, medical ethics, complementary and alternative therapies, and the medical humanities.
Medical Anthropology Minor Highlights
Within the Medical Anthropology Minor Program, some flexibility is built in to allow
students to choose from a diversity of advanced support courses in Sociology, Applied
Gerontology, Psychology, Biology, Philosophy, and Religious Studies.
All faculty members have applied anthropologists, united by our flexible intellectual
and practical approaches. We challenge epistemological boundaries by using mixed methods,
relying on interdisciplinary or multifaceted approaches.
Two members of the UNT anthropology department are also on the steering committee
of the Consortium of Practicing and Applied Anthropology Programs (COPAA).
We anticipate that such a minor will enable students to become competitive, humanistic
applicants to programs that continue their graduate education, such as medical school,
nursing school, physician assistant programs, occupational therapy, clinical psychology,
or graduate programs in anthropology, sociology, international and public health,
community development, and more.
Medical Anthropology Minor Courses You Could Take
Introduction to Anthropology (3 hrs)
Surveys and explains the cultural, linguistic and biological legacy of humankind,
from antiquity to the present, using the research tools of anthropology. Anthropology
is both a scientific and humanistic endeavor that attempts to explain the differences
and similarities between and among human groups.
World Cultures (3 hrs)
Introduction to the ways humans, past and present, have thrived in three different
cultural worlds: tribal, imperial and commercial, including the interaction between
people and their environments and the role of social power in determining the forms
that human cultures have taken through history into the present day.
Health, Healing and Culture: Medical Anthropology (3 hrs)
Contemporary medical anthropology, with a focus on the biocultural basis of health
and global sociocultural variations in illness and healing. Study of comparative health
systems, political-economic and ethical issues in health and care, health professions,
and patients’ views of illness, and cross-cultural definitions and understandings
of disease, illness and cure.
Science, Skepticism and Weird Behavior (3 hrs)
Utilizes scientific critical thinking to examine causes of various strange phenomena,
including alleged paranormal events, magic, superstition, mystery illnesses, bogus
therapies and pseudoscience. Seeks to explain why people believe and do weird things.
Provides training in basic scientific thinking about causal explanations and in understanding
the scientific method as applied to interesting everyday phenomena.
Introduction to Global Health (3 hrs)
Develop problem-solving skills utilized in improving the health of nations globally,
including social, economic, medical and environmental considerations that affect the
health of global populations.
Culture and Society (3 hrs)
Cultural anthropology is the social science that tries to make sense out of people’s
lifestyles around the world, encompassing many subjects such as law, religion, politics,
health, language, economics and globalization. It involves analyzing human ways of
life with holistic, comparative, global, and relativistic perspective.
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