2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog

AN 210 Culture, Health, and Wellness

This course explores the topics of health, wellness, sickness and disease from an anthropological and cross-cultural perspective.  In this course students will develop an understanding of the role of culture in the conceptualization of health and wellness and the pattern and treatment of sickness and disease.  The course will also explore the role of socio-economic factors impacting on health and wellness and the patters of treatment of sickness and disease.  Finally, the course will develop a comparative, cross-cultural perspective of health, wellness, sickness and disease.

Credits

3