Undergraduate Courses
The Department of Anthropology offers a number of undergraduate courses that fulfill requirements in the liberal arts and sciences core curriculum and the writing-intensive (W) general education requirement.
Academic Year 2026-2027
1007W. Health, Culture, and Power: An Introduction to Medical Anthropology
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: ENGL 1007 or 1010 or 1011.
Grading Basis: Graded
An introduction to medical anthropology that explores how experiences of health, illness, and our bodies are shaped by the sociocultural, political, economic, and historical contexts in which we live. Students are encouraged to think in cross-cultural and comparative ways about what it means to be an embodied being, and about how relations of power shape humans’ embodied experience.