BSc Medical Anthropology Course Overview
BSc MedAnth Year 1
BSc MedAnth Year 2
BSc MedAnth Year 3
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Medical Anthropology
BSc in Medical Anthropology
"This new degree programme offers a biocultural approach to the study of human health, sickness and medicine. The course is one of the only undergraduate programmes in medical anthropology in the world and will provide you with a wide range of skills that prepare you for a future in many health related fields."

Course Structure
Module is:  required = Required  recommended = Recommended  optional = Optional
Year 1
requiredComputing for Anthropologists (SE300)
requiredIntroduction to Social Anthropology (SE301)
requiredFoundations of Human Culture (SE302)
requiredLife's Systems and Processes (DI308)
optionalFundamental Human Biology (BI305)
recommendedIntroduction to the History of Medicine (HI385)
optionalPeople and Plants (SE304)
Year 2
requiredHealth, Illness and Medicine (SE549)
requiredBiocultural Perspectives in Medical Anthropology (SE576)
requiredBiological Anthropology: The Human Animal (SE581)
requiredBiological Anthropology: Comparative Perspectives (SE582)
requiredMethodology in Anthropological Science (SE567)
requiredHuman Osteology (SE566)
requiredThe Anthropology of Eating (SE585)
requiredHistory of Evolutionary Thought (SE568)
optionalSex, Evolution and Human Nature (SE565)
optionalHuman Ecology (SE542)
optionalPrimate Behaviour and Ecology (SE580)
Year 3
requiredProject in Anthropological Science (SE533)
requiredEcology and Evolution of Human Health and Sickness (SE574)
requiredMedicinal Plants, Traditional Healing and Drug Discovery (SE575)
requiredPaleopathology (SE569)
optionalEvolution of Hominin Behaviour (SE541)
optionCurrent Issues in Evolutionary Anthropology (SE570)
optionalCultural Dimensions in the Study of Drugs and Addictions (SE846)

Last Updated: 16/04/09
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