UCSF COURSE OFFERINGS in MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
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Anthropology 200: Off Campus Study. Staff. Full-time graduate study in the Medical Anthropology Program through the inter-campus exchange or consortium program.
Anthropology 205A-B: Intro to Sociocultural Medical Anthropology Theory. This two-quarter sequence covers the development of major theoretical ideas in social and cultural anthropology as applied to the study of medicine, medical institutions, healing, health and illness. This graduate course consists of a weekly seminar supplemented by selected readings, brief reviews of contemporary work, and a major written paper. Enrollment is restricted, primarily to first year students in the inter-campus Medical Anthropology Program, and requires consent of the instructor. This is a REQUIRED COURSE for students whose home campus is UCSF.
Anthropology 211A : Research Training Seminar I: Introduction to Ethnographic Research. In-depth introduction to research design and field methods. Problem formulation, research design, and the use of specific methods is highlighted from a variety of perspectives. Emphasis is on identification and development of a research problem, the development of research questions, and the relationship to appropriate methods for fieldwork that takes place in a clinical setting during 211B.
Anthropology 211B: Research Training Seminar II: Fieldwork Training. A hands-on seminar on issues that students experience in the course of their individual field research projects in clinical settings. Emphasis is given to simultaneous data collection, data analysis, and further refinement and development of the research problem. Attention is also given to writing field notes, and to preliminary analysis of field notes, such as the creation of core categories.
Anthropology 211C: Qualitative Analysis. Introduction to anthropological methods of data analysis, including an overview of methodological approaches and in-depth practice in one or more domains, using data collected in 211B.
Anthropology 218: Professional Skills
This course provides a foundation in professional skills necessary for an academic career in the social sciences or humanities, including preparing manuscripts and submitting them for publication, preparing a curriculum vitae, crafting grant proposals, and constructing course syllabi.
Anthropology 220: Program Seminar. Faculty, postdocs and students gather for presentations of contemporary research issues.
Anthropology 225: Contemporary Issues. Focused analysis of current debates and issues within medical anthropology.
Anthropology 248: Group Study. Groups of two or more collaborate on special problems in anthropology under the direction of faculty. Students may select areas related to their long-term interest and future research program.
Anthropology 249: Directed Reading. Independent Study.
Anthropology 250: Research. Consent of instructor.
Anthropology 251: Critical Gerontology. Use of critical theoretical perspective to re-frame contemporary debates in gerontological/geriatric literature.
Anthropology 252: Introduction to Health Policy. The health policy making process will be examined from a cross-cultural and political perspective, including factors influencing policy formulation, policy makers and other actors in the policy process, and the role of national and international health organizations and special interest groups.
Anthropology 254: Introduction to International Health. This course explores the field of international health within the broader context of health and development. Basic issues related to major diseases and conditions in developing countries, including international health organizations and their influence on approaches to prevention, treatment, and control will be reviewed from a cross-cultural perspective.
Anthropology 261: Health and Human Survival. Explores the social causes of ill-health and malnutrition in the Third World Initial readings will examine western health and development efforts in the context of economic and social inequalities that undermine them and with which they are intimately connected. We will then concentrate on the efforts of Third World peoples to challenge global and local inequalities in the pursuit of health and self-reliant development. Course focus is flexible to student's priorities.
Anthropology 262: Poverty and Health in the US. This seminar explores the social causes of ill-health and the grassroots response to poverty and disease in the United States. Initial focus is on social inequality and its effect on the lives, health, and well-being of the nation's poor. Examines state policy from the War on Poverty to the "War on Welfare." Questions assumptions about the "culture of poverty" and the "pathology of the Black family." The examines the rich history of resistance and accommodation as poor Americans have responded to the underlying causes of ill-health.
Anthropology 297: Special Study. Independent Study
Anthropology 298: Dissertation Writing Seminar. Open to students who have advanced to candidacy and who have completed doctoral dissertation fieldwork. Restrictions: Seminar is limited to students who have completed their fieldwork and are in the dissertation writing phase of their degree.
This seminar is for students who have finished fieldwork and data collection, and are writing their dissertation. The objective of the seminar is for students to produce draft chapters for their dctoral dissertation.
Anthropology 299: Dissertation. For graduate students engaged in dissertation research and writing.
Course Offerings in Related Disciplines
In addition to these courses, a number of courses are available to students in other Schools, Departments and Programs on the UCSF campus. These include courses in Ambulatory and Community Medicine, Psychiatry, History of Health Sciences, Human Development and Aging, Nursing, Pharmacy, Psychology, and Sociology.
The student may also chose electives on the Berkeley campus, including courses in Anthropology, Sociology, Geography, Nutritional Sciences, Public Health, and Social Welfare. Full credit is accorded to the UCSF campus student for courses taken on the UCB campus.
For a complete list of course offerings, please consult the General Catalogues for the respective campuses.
The UCB catalogue may be obtained by writing to the
Registrar's Office, Sproul Hall,
University of California,
Berkeley, CA 94720.
The UCSF catalogue may be obtained from the
Registrar and Admissions Office,
Box 0244,
University of California,
San Francisco, CA 94143-0244.
There is a charge for each catalogue.
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