Undergraduate Courses

GHMHI will combine critical examinations of global health with classical approaches to the medical humanities through existing and new undergraduate-level courses:

21A.156: Introduction to Sociology (L. Tso, MIT Anthropology)

21A.300: Practicum in Global Health and Development (E. C. James, MIT Anthropology)

21A.302: Dilemmas in Biomedical Ethics: Playing God or Doing Good? (E. C. James, MIT Anthropology) 

21A.306: Culture, Embodiment, and the Senses (E. C. James, MIT Anthropology)

21A.308: Global Mental Health (E. C. James, MIT Anthropology)

21A.310/WGS.155: Global Sexualities (L. Tso) New!

21A.331J/7.331J/HST.431J: Infections and Inequalities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Global Health (E. C. James, MIT Anthropology; D. Kim, MIT Biology; and A. Chakraborty, Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology)

MIT OpenCourseWare Links:

21A.302 Dilemmas in Biomedical Ethics: Playing God or Doing Good? as taught in fall 2013 (E. C. James, MIT Anthropology)

21A.306 Culture, Embodiment, and the Senses as taught in fall 2005 (E. C. James, MIT Anthropology)

21A.442J: Violence, Human Rights, and Justice as taught in fall 2014 (E. C. James, MIT Anthropology)