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Medical Anthropology program requirements

What the Medical Anthropology Minor requires, as the 2026-2027 Arts & Science Calendar states it, and every course it names.

Medical Anthropology Minor

  • Arts program
  • 4.0 credits
  • Open enrolment
  • ASMIN1778

Enrolment

This is an open enrolment program. A student who has completed 4.0 credits may enrol in the program. The full enrolment requirements are on the Calendar's page for this program.

Completion requirements

(4.0 credits, including 1.0 or 1.5 credits at the 300+ level)

First Year:

1ANT100Y1

Second Year:

2ANT205H1 and ANT208H1

30.5 credit from: ANT204H1, ANT207H1, ANT203Y1 (Students who want to focus on evolutionary/biological approaches to medical anthropology should take ANT203Y1).

Upper Years:

4Up to 1.5 credits from the following courses, up to a total of 4.0 credits to complete the minor program. Students who complete ANT203Y1 need to take 1.0 credit, and students who take ANT204H1 or ANT207H1 need to take 1.5 credits, from the following: ANT331H1, ANT334H1/ ANT334Y1, ANT336H1, ANT337H1, ANT338H1, ANT339H1, ANT345H1, ANT348H1, ANT357H1, ANT358H1, ANT382H1, ANT385H1, ANT433H1, ANT434H1, ANT435H1, ANT442H1, ANT446H1, ANT458H1, ANT460H1, ANT488H1.

Health-related Anthropology Special Topics courses at the 300 or 400 level, and health-related Independent Research courses at the 400-level, will count towards program requirements

Courses these requirements name

  • ANT100Y1Introduction to Anthropology
  • ANT205H1Medical Anthropology: Sociocultural Perspectives on Illness, Medicine and Care
  • ANT208H1Medical Anthropology: an Evolutionary Perspective on Human Health
  • ANT204H1Social Cultural Anthropology and Global Issues
  • ANT207H1Core Concepts in Social and Cultural Anthropology
  • ANT203Y1Human Biology and Evolution: From Fossils to Genes
  • ANT331H1Hormones and Behaviour: Biocultural Anthropological Perspectives
  • ANT334H1Human Skeletal Biology last in the 2023-2024 Calendar
  • ANT334Y1Human Skeletal Biology
  • ANT336H1Evolutionary Anthropology Theory
  • ANT337H1Human Movement
  • ANT338H1Molecular Anthropology and Human Evolution
  • ANT339H1Evolutionary Medicine and Health: What does Anthropology have to do with it?
  • ANT345H1Global Health: Anthropological Perspectives
  • ANT348H1Medical Anthropology: Health, Power and Politics
  • ANT357H1Social Worlds of Medicine and Care
  • ANT358H1Medical Anthropology and Social Justice
  • ANT382H1Special Topics in Biocultural Medical Anthropology
  • ANT385H1Special Topics in Sociocultural Medical Anthropology
  • ANT433H1Female Biology, Gender, and Sex: Biocultural Evolutionary Approaches
  • ANT434H1Health, Diet & Disease in the Past
  • ANT435H1Anthropology of Childhood and Childcare
  • ANT442H1Social Studies of Autism
  • ANT446H1Anthropology of Aging, Health, and Care
  • ANT458H1Indigenous Health Histories and Canadian Settler Colonialism
  • ANT460H1Global Perspectives on Women's Health
  • ANT488H1Special Topics in Medical Anthropology
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