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Anthropology
Description: This class introduces medical anthropology, emphasizing diverse experiences of health and healing, and exploring how landscapes of inequality impact wellness. In this way, the class integrates scientific and humanistic approaches to the study of people and cultures as a way to build cross-cultural awareness and address contemporary challenges facing local and global communities. ANT 280 introduces the methods and approaches medical anthropologists use to identify unique features and perspectives found in cultural approaches to health, illness, and healing around the world. Letter grade only.
Units: 3
Sections offered: Spring 2025 Summer 2025 Fall 2025
Course Attributes:
Anthropology
Term : Fall 2025
Catalog Year : 2025-2026
ANT 280 - Shamans, Surgeons, And Syndromes: Global Health And Healing
Description: This class introduces medical anthropology, emphasizing diverse experiences of health and healing, and exploring how landscapes of inequality impact wellness. In this way, the class integrates scientific and humanistic approaches to the study of people and cultures as a way to build cross-cultural awareness and address contemporary challenges facing local and global communities. ANT 280 introduces the methods and approaches medical anthropologists use to identify unique features and perspectives found in cultural approaches to health, illness, and healing around the world. Letter grade only.
Units: 3
Sections offered: Spring 2025 Summer 2025 Fall 2025
Course Attributes:
- LS: Global Diversity
- GS: Global Diversity
- GS: Social & Political Worlds
- GS: Social & Political Worlds + Global
- LS: Cultural Understanding + Global
- LS: Cultural Understanding