Program: Culture and Health Minor - East Tennessee State University

Mar 30, 2025

2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

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Culture and Health Minor

Department of Sociology and Anthropology
PO Box 70644
(423) 439-4996
Web Address: www.etsu.edu/cas/sociology/

Culture and Health: https://www.etsu.edu/cas/sociology-anthropology/culture-health.php

Melissa Schrift, Ph.D.
Professor of Anthropology, Culture and Health Advisor

Pre-Health Academic Liaison, College of Arts and Sciences
email: schrift@etsu.edu

The Culture and Health minor will offer an interdisciplinary curriculum that trains students in the cross-cultural diversity of experiences surrounding health, illness, and treatment. The minor will increase cultural competency of future health care providers, give them firsthand experience engaging health and disease in nontraditional settings, and provide them with tangible skills designed to help them have success in professional training. In addition to targeting pre-health and pre-med students, the minor will offer students in the social sciences a focused track to pursue careers in community health research, advocacy, and development work in the government and nonprofit sectors.

Culture and Health Minor: 18 credits

At least 9 credits must be at the 3000-level or above.

Required Courses: 9 credits

ANTH 2070 - Race, Science, and Human Variation (3 credits)
ANTH 3070 - Medical Anthropology (3 credits)
ANTH 4250 - Medical Belief and Cultural Competence (3 credits)

Guided Electives: 9 credits

Choose three (3) of the following:

ANTH 2020 - Medical and Health Humanities (3 credits)
ANTH 2050 - Sex, Gender, and Ritual across Culture (3 credits)
ANTH 3080 - Nutritional Anthropology (3 credits)
ANTH 3200 - Anthropology of the Body (3 credits)
ANTH 3500 - Traditional and Indigenous Medicine (3 credits)
ANTH 4410 - International Field Experience (2-6 credits)
ANTH 4957 - Special Topic in Anthropology (1-6 credits) (when topic is relevant)
HIST 3931 - History of Medicine (3 credits)
HSCI 3046 - Human Genetics (3 credits)
HSCI 3100 - Introduction to Health Care Simulation (3 Credits)
PHIL 3130 - Bioethics (3 credits)
SOCI 4440 - Sociology of Religion (3 credits)
SPAN 4157 - Spanish for Health Professions (3 credits)

Minor Requirement

A minor is a secondary area of study outside of the major program of study with a structured curriculum composed of at least 18 credits of which at least 9 credits must be at the 3000-level or above.