Medical anthropology sheds light on human health, medicine, and well-being through our disciplinary subfields (biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, applied anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and archaeology). This framework uses anthropology to explore how health is impacted by cultural factors (including religious beliefs, history, politics, globalization, socioeconomic conditions, inequality, e.g.), as well as the co-evolution of humans and pathogens and other sociobiological phenomena. Medical anthropology utilizes all the tools and methods at our disposal to best understand human health cultures and phenomena for all peoples past and present throughout the world. 

*Students may get a Medical Anthropology minor or a general Anthropology minor, but not both.

To graduate with this minor, a minimum GPA of 2.500 must be earned in all anthropology courses.