Undergraduate

Dr. E. Irem Az W 6:00-8:00pm Is disability a human constant? Is it the physical outcome of an event/accident (including particular genetic combinations and developmental events in the fetus) or exposure to toxicity? Is it merely a social consequence of...

M 9-11am Dr. Lindsey Marten Zeve This is an introductory social medicine discussion seminar designed specifically for undergraduate students who are interested in applications of medical anthropology to health and medicine. Social medicine uses insights...

Prof. Ping-hsiu Alice Lin M 3-5:45pm How does movement reshape our understanding of contemporary Asia? What happens when we shift our gaze from fixed places to flows of people, ideas, and things? In this introductory-level class in sociocultural...

Prof. Nicholas Harkness T 12-2:45pm What is the voice? Where is the voice? Whose voice is it? This course is an exploration of the way different scholarly disciplines, thought traditions, and cultural systems have oriented to the human voice. We will...

Prof. Ryo Morimoto M W 1:30-2:45pm What is the relationship between “catastrophe” and human beings, and how has “catastrophe” influenced the way we live in the world now? This course investigates various types of catastrophes/disasters (i.e., earthquakes...

Prof. Christina Warinner M W 3-4:15pm This course surveys the evolution of human diet, from the foods of our earliest ancestors to the contents of today’s supermarkets. We’ll cover the definition of food, human nutritional requirements, major dietary...

Dr. Lindsey Zeve Th 3-5:45pm Over the last two decades, health scientists have grown increasingly concerned about a perceived methodological crisis centered on the reliable replication of research findings—a crisis exacerbated by growing public mistrust...

Profs. Davíd Carrasco and Bill Fash M W 10:30-11:45am How does Mexico's rich cultural past shape contemporary Mexico and the US in the face of today's pandemics, protests and other challenges of the borderlands? This course provides students with the...

Prof. Jason Ur M 3:00-5:45pm Course open to First-Year Students Only. Trips will be included at no cost to the student. Students will get to know Greater Boston by getting out of the classroom and getting off campus.

Dr. Lindsey Zeve Th 3:00-5:45pm Social medicine is a multidisciplinary field of practice that draws insights from the social sciences to improve care delivery and address health inequities. Medical anthropology is a core contributing discipline to the...