Public Health Major, Anthropology

One of the following Biology courses:

• BIO 105 - Nutrition
• BIO 114 - Introduction to the Biological Sciences
• BIO 201 - Environmental Science
• BIO 211 - Genetics
• BIO 221 - Microbiology

One of the following Ethics courses:

• PHIL 111 - Ethics
• PHIL 242 - Medical Ethics (preferred)

One of the following Statistics courses:

• MATH 141 - Introductory Statistics
• MGMT 141 - Statistics for Social Sciences
• PSY 141 - Statistics for the Social Sciences
• SOC 141 - Statistics for Social Sciences
• SOC 272 - Telling Stories with Data

Required courses

• ANTH 102 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
• ANTH 265 - Medical Anthropology

•  

• ANTH 301 - Seminar in Anthropological Theory

• This course must be taken prior to Senior year and is offered in the Spring of each year. Very few study abroad courses serve as an equivalent. If you plan to study abroad during the Spring semester of your Junior year, you must take this course in the Spring of your Sophomore year unless your study abroad program offers an approved equivalent.

•  

• ANTH 302 - Research Methods

• This course must be taken prior to Senior year, and is offered in the Fall of each year. Some study abroad programs may offer a course that would fulfill this requirement, though it is highly desirable that you take this course at Wheaton. Consult your advisor if you plan to be abroad during your junior year in the Fall semester.

•  

• PSY 334 - Practicum in Human Services and Public Health

•  

• ANTH 401 - Senior Seminar

•  

Three of the following Elective courses:

Two of these must be Anthropology courses.

• ANTH 246 - Imagining a Just World through Action
• ANTH 266 - Global Health: Power, Sex, and Gender
• ANTH 267 - Inequality and Health
• ANTH 298 - Global Motherhood

•  

• ANTH 311 - Violence Against Women
• or  SOC 311 - Violence against Women
• or  WGS 311 - Violence against Women

•  

• ECON 103 - Introduction to Microeconomics with Health Applications
• ECON 262 - Health Economics
• MGMT 111 - Fundamentals of Business
• PSY 203 - Child Development
• PSY 225 - Introduction to Neuroscience
• PSY 227 - Introduction to Psychopharmacology
• PSY 235 - Human Sexuality
• PSY 265 - Health Psychology
• PSY 346 - Aging and Mental Health Care: Global Perspectives
• PSY 369 - Clinical Psychology
• SOC 225 - Health and Medicine
• SOC 275 - Disability and Difference
• An approved course in a study abroad program 

Notes

Students who plan to pursue graduate study should strongly consider taking at least one additional 300-level course beyond the required courses as well as achieving proficiency in a second language.

Anthropology and Anthropology & Public Health majors may also be able to take some 200-level courses at the 300-level.