The Medical Anthropology certificate provides an intensive foundation in medical anthropology for undergraduate anthropology and non-anthropology majors. Courses emphasize the role that biology, culture, language, and prehistory play in human health, and the experience of healing across cultures.
Earning a Medical Anthropology Certificate
You will need successful completion of ONE prerequisite course to be accepted to the Medical Anthropology certificate program (Choose one):
- ANT2301 Human Sexuality and Culture
- ANT 2410 Cultural Anthropology
- ANT2464 Things Your Doctor Never Told you: Intro to Medical Anthropology
- ANT3514C Introduction to Biological Anthropology
You will receive a Medical Anthropology Certificate after completing/passing 12 credits from the required course list:
| Select 12 credits: | 12 | |
| Things Your Doctor Never Told You: Intro to Medical Anthropology | ||
| Global Gender Issues | ||
| Race and Racism | ||
| Food and Culture | ||
| Global Health Culture | ||
| Culture and Medicine | ||
| Anthropology of Pregnancy, Birth, and Early Childhood Development | ||
| Health and Disease in Human Evolution | ||
| Evolutionary Medicine | ||
| Special Topics in Anthropology (approved by APY UGC) E.g. Evolutionary Medicine, Hospital Ethnography, Whiteness, Epigenetics and Human disease |
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If approved, select up to 3 credits related to Medical Anthropology:
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| Junior Topics Class in Anthropology | ||
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or ANT 4930
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Special Topics in Anthropology | |
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Approved independent research topics course
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| Individual Work | ||
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or ANT 4907
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Research Projects in Anthropology | |
Interested in getting a certificate in Medical Anthropology? Check out the links below:
Click here for information about applying to a certificate and here for a link to the application