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Mar 16, 2025
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ANTH 4580 - Peoples, Plagues and Pestilence: The Anthropology of Infectious Disease
This course focuses on utilizing anthropological concepts such as the bio-cultural perspective to understand infectious disease, how cultures have responded to such challenges, and what the future might hold.
Requisites: ANTH 2010 and (Jr or Sr)
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Examination of infectious disease episodes using anthropological concepts (holism, context, comparison, bio-cultural feedback loop).
- Familiarity with how humans evolved.
- Familiarity with the implications of human evolution.
- Familiarity with what it means to be human on biological and cultural levels.
- Identification of how human biology and culture have interacted in specific infectious disease illness episodes.
- Understanding of cultural concepts that humans use to describe and manage infectious illness episodes such as labeling, placing blame and risk.
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