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Apr 06, 2026
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ANTH 372 - Medical Anthropology
Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-4; Diversity
The ecology of health, traditional practices, and medicine; public health and medical problems as affected by cultural differences; the effects of acculturation upon mental and physical health.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-4 - Upper Division Social and Behavioral Sciences, Overlay -Diversity
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas 1A, 1B, 1C and GE-2 with grade C- (CR) or better (GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division GE Area 4 requirements (Area D1-2 requirements for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Possible Instructional Methods: Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Define and explain key concepts in Medical Anthropology and examine the way cultures’ impact diverse people’s health, illness and disease experiences
- Compare and contrast the ways in which gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, socio-economic class, age, reproductive ability, ethnicity, disability, and geographic location impacts diverse cultural beliefs, public health and medical services;
- Analyze diverse health systems, including biomedicine and “traditional” practices;
- Identify ways that applying anthropological methods and perspectives, can promote real world solutions and equity and social justice for diverse cultural groups.
- Put into perspective ones’ own bias while developing empathy and respect for diverse cultural groups in health care settings.
- Demonstrate clear written and oral communication skills.
GE-UD-4. Upper-division Social and Behavioral Sciences Learning Outcomes
- analyze how power and social identity affect social outcomes for different cultural and economic groups using methods of social science inquiry and vocabulary appropriate to those methods;
- demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply accurately disciplinary concepts of the social or behavioral sciences; and
- demonstrate an understanding of and ability to effectively plan or conduct research using an appropriate method of the social or behavioral sciences.
Diversity Overlay Learning Outcomes
- Describe the histories, experiences or views of one or more cultural groups.
- Analyze the overlap or intersection of social identities of oneself and/or other cultural groups (e.g., culture, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, and/or age).
- Examine the impact of their own identity on their experiences with and/or views of other cultural groups.
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