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BS in Medical Anthropology & Global Health (MAGH) option requirements
MAGH students are required to complete the following courses to fulfill their 75 anthropology credits:
Core Coursework (Required):
- Complete core anthropology courses: BIO A 201, any 5-credit 200-level ARCHY course, and any 5-credit 200-level ANTH course.
- Complete one statistics course chosen from CS&SS/SOC/STAT 221, STAT 220, STAT 311, Q SCI 381, or ARCHY 495.
Specific Courses Required:
- ANTH 215 Introduction to Medical Anthropology and Global Health
- At least 40 additional credits from the approved MAGH course list (listed below).
Additional Requirements:
- 35 credits must be Upper Division.
- 50 credits must be Natural Science courses in Anthropology.
Approved courses for Medical Anthropology & Global Health (MAGH):
- ANTH 302 Body and Soul: Introduction to Medical Anthropology and Global Health as Social Justice Praxis
- ANTH 303 Technologies of Health
- ANTH 304 Anthropology of Beauty
- ANTH 305 Anthropology of the Body
- ANTH 308 Anthropology of Women's Health and Reproduction
- ANTH 311 The Cultural Politics of Diet and Nutrition
- ANTH 322 Comparative Study of Death
- ANTH 325 Indigenous Knowledge and Public Health in Mexican and Latinx Origin Communities
- ANTH 361 Anthropology of Food
- ANTH 369 Special Problems in Anthropology (as relevant)
- ANTH 373 Labor, Identity and Knowledge in Healthcare
- ANTH 374 Narrative, Literature, and Medical Anthropology
- ANTH 375 Comparative Systems of Healing
- ANTH 376 Anthropology of Disability
- ANTH 377 Anthropology and International Health
- ANTH 394 Embodied Liberation Theory and Praxis
- ANTH 402 Introduction to Experiential Ethnography: Towards a Critical Re-Enchantment of Every Day Life
- ANTH 403 Qualitative Research Methods
- ANTH 408 Experiments in South East Asia
- ANTH 409 Queer Health
- ANTH 410 Discourse and Health
- ANTH 411 The Culture and Politics of Food: Study Abroad in Italy
- ANTH 414 Applied Public Anthropology
- ANTH 417 Surfacing the Stories of Hanford: Local and Global Health Disparities
- ANTH 420 The Social Life of Psychiatry
- ANTH 422 Visuality and Medicine
- ANTH 425 Anthropology of the Post-Soviet States
- ANTH 452 Explorations in Biopower
- ANTH 453 Culture, Controversy and Change: The Case of Female Circumcision
- ANTH 458 Ethnobiology: Plants, Animals, and People
- ANTH 468 Anthropology of Care
- ANTH 472 Case Studies in Medical Anthropology and Global Health
- ANTH 474 Social Difference and Medical Knowledge
- ANTH 475 Perspectives in Medical Anthropology
- ANTH 476 Culture, Medicine, and the Body
- ANTH 477 Medicine in America: Conflicts and Contradictions
- ANTH 478 Introduction to the Anthropology of Institutions
- ANTH 479 Advanced Topics in Medical Anthropology
- ANTH 483 Africa Living with HIV/AIDS
- ANTH 490 Healthcare and Aging
- ANTH 494 Feminist Performance Ethnography
- ANTH 496 Alter/Native Power
- ANTH 518 Advanced Qualitative Methods in Anthropology and Public Health
- ANTH 574 Culture, Society, and Genomics
- ANTH 575 Cultural Construction of Illness: Seminar in Medical Anthropology
- ANTH 583 Africa Living with HIV/AIDS
- ARCHY 369 Special Problems in Archaeology (as relevent)
- BIO A 206 Plagues and Peoples
- BIO A 270 Human and Comparative Anatomy
- BIO A 300 Evolutionary Biology of Women
- BIO A 348 Evolutionary Biology and Human Diversity
- BIO A 350 Men's Health Across the Lifespan
- BIO A 351 Principles of Evolutionary Medicine/BIO A 355 Evolutionary Medicine (these are overlapping courses and only one may be taken for credit)
- BIO A 382 Human Population Biology
- BIO A 387 Ecological Perspectives on Environmental Stress, Adaptation, and Health
- BIO A 409 Human Sexual Selection
- BIO A 413 Human Primate Interface: Implications for Disease, Risk, and Conservation
- BIO A 420 Anthropological Research on Health Disparities
- BIO A 423 Social Networks and Health
- BIO A 450 Biodemography Seminar
- BIO A 454 Hormones and Behavior
- BIO A 455 Laboratory Methods in Hormones and Behavior
- BIO A 459 Laboratory Methods in Anthropological Genetics
- BIO A 465 Nutritional Anthropology
- BIO A 468 Human Reproductive Ecology
- BIO A 469 Special Topics in Biocultural Anthropology (as relevant)
- BIO A 471 Biocultural Perspectives of Childcare and Development
- BIO A 473 Biological Adaptability of Human Populations
- BIO A 476 Sociocultural Ecology and Health
- BIO A 482 Human Population Genetics
- BIO A 483 Human Genetics, Disease, and Culture
- BIO A 484 Applied Human Growth & Development
- BIO A 487 Human and Comparative Osteology
- BIO A 495 Growth and Development: Infancy
- BIO A 496 Growth and Development: Adolescence and Reproductive Maturity
- BIO A 568 Human Reproductive Ecology