Individualized study online with eText, and Video component (Overseas students, please contact the University Library before registering in a course that has an audio/visual component). Delivered via Brightspace.
This three-credit, university-level course is designed to provide a multicultural and multidisciplinary perspective on health and healing. The course gives students the opportunity to apply some conceptual tools of medical anthropology to examine the health status of First Nations people and other ethnic groups in Canada, while considering the role of medical pluralism in a culturally diverse nation state.
Outline
Part 1: Medical Ecology, Adaptation, and Epidemiology
Unit 1: Medical Ecology
Unit 2: Epidemiology, Nutrition, and Reproduction in Cross-cultural Perspective
Unit 3: Stress, Health and Healing
Part 2: The Practice of Healing and Health Care.
Unit 4: Paradigms and Therapies
Unit 5: Health Care in a Culturally Diverse Society
Unit 6: Cultural Considerations of Health, Illness, and Healing
Unit 7: Political Ecology: Global and Local Interactions
Part 3: Canada’s First Nations Peoples.
Unit 8: Early History and Current Health Status of Aboriginals
Unit 9: Aboriginal Medicine in the Contemporary Context
Evaluation
To receive credit for HADM 326, you must complete all assessments, achieve a course composite grade of at least D (50 percent) and a grade of at least 50 percent on the Final Examination. The weighting of the composite grade is as follows:
Activity
Weight
Assignment 1
15%
Assignment 2
15%
Assignment 3: Term Paper
30%
Final Exam
40%
Total
100%
The final examination for this course must be requested in advance and written under the supervision of an AU-approved exam invigilator. Invigilators include either ProctorU or an approved in-person invigilation centre that can accommodate online exams. Students are responsible for payment of any invigilation fees. Information on exam request deadlines, invigilators, and other exam-related questions, can be found at the Exams and grades section of the Calendar.
To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University’s online Calendar.
Materials
McElroy, Ann, & Patricia K. Townsend (2015). Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective, (6th ed.) Boulder, CO: Westview Press. (Print)
Srivastava, Rani, H. (Ed.). (2007). The healthcare professional’s guide to clinical cultural competence. Toronto: Elsevier Canada. (eText)
Athabasca University reserves the right to amend course outlines occasionally and without notice. Courses offered by other delivery methods may vary from their individualized study counterparts.