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INTRODUCTION TO CULTURE AND HEALTH

ANTHRO 265
Course Description

Uses the conceptual tools of anthropology to explore how culture, biology, and power together shape the ways people are born, experience good and poor health, seek therapeutic aid, and die. Draws on material from around the world, with a particular focus on the experience of marginalized minority people in the United States.

Prerequisties

None

Satisfies

This course does not satisfy any prerequisites.

Credits

Not Reported

Offered

Not Reported

Grade Point Average
3.22

-0.7% from Historical

Completion Rate
94.44%

-1.97% from Historical

A Rate
25%

-15.96% from Historical

Class Size
36

-50.57% from Historical

Instructors (2025 Fall)

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