ANTH 3600 - Anthropology of Health and the Environment

(3) Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 with a grade of C or better
This course is designed to introduce students to the historical development of critical medical anthropology, with a specific emphasis on the intersections between people’s health and the environment. We will consider how socioecological conditions such as climate change, urban expansion, food production, resources extraction, and human pollution become experienced and embodied by diverse people in varying societal contexts. Throughout the course students will explore how people shape environmental systems and, in so doing, create new vulnerabilities, inequities, and precarities that are unevenly experienced and accumulated in the body. Different theories, literatures, and applied case studies from around the world will ground our approach.