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Program checklist · Health, Culture, and Society Immersion

Health, Culture, and Society Immersion

Rochester Institute of Technology · Rochester, NY

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Program
Award
Health, Culture, and Society Immersion
Total credits (published)
9
Catalog edition
2026-2027 RIT Undergraduate Catalog
Checklist type
degree-program
Description
This immersion in health, culture, and society focuses on the shifting configurations of health and culture in a globalizing world. Health beliefs, including notions about bodily integrity or emotional well-being, illness causation, and diagnostic practices, and the experiences, expressions, and treatments of human ailments unfold in concrete cultural contexts. Every society has some form of health care system, which is minimally administered by community members or specialized practitioners. By moving beyond the lens of western biomedicine, the immersion provides students with a set of tools for analyzing the impact of culture on how health care is delivered, how health symptoms are interpreted and communicated by patients and health providers, and how costs for treatment are calculated and managed in relation to perceived benefits. Courses examine the interrelation between health and culture from a number of perspectives and contexts, including the cultural realities within which bodies are meaningfully constituted or in some cases enhanced by technology, the culture-specific communicative or representational health practices, the socially constituted experiences of trauma, death, suffering, and healing, and the various culturally mediated approaches to health care costs and remedies.
Identifiers
IPEDS UNITID
195003
CourseShelf checklist
CK_195003_bfb7ae17
CollegeTransfer.Net
Institution Transfer Profile
Source
CourseShelf publish 61

Requirements to complete

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Curriculum

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    Electives

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    1. Select three of the following:
      Not resolved to a course
      9
    2. ANTH 105
      Humans, Health, Technology
      Not resolved to a course
    3. ANTH 205
      Global Disability Futures
      Not resolved to a course
    4. ANTH 246
      Gender and Health (WI-GE)
      Not resolved to a course
    5. ANTH 250
      Themes in Archaeological Research 1
      Not resolved to a course
    6. ANTH 270
      Cuisine, Culture and Power
      Not resolved to a course
    7. ANTH 295
      Global Public Health (WI-GE)
      Not resolved to a course
    8. ANTH 325
      Bodies and Culture (WI-GE)
      Not resolved to a course
    9. ANTH 341
      Global Addictions (WI-GE)
      Not resolved to a course
    10. ANTH 345
      Genocide and Transitional Justice
      Not resolved to a course
    11. ANTH 425
      Global Sexualities (WI-GE)
      Not resolved to a course
    12. ANTH 435
      The Archaeology of Death
      Not resolved to a course
    13. ANTH 489
      Topics in Anthropology 2
      Not resolved to a course
    14. COMM 344
      Health Communication
      Not resolved to a course
    15. ECON 450
      Health Care Economics
      Not resolved to a course
    16. ENGL 330
      Rhetoric of Health & Medicine
      Not resolved to a course
    17. INGS 205
      Global Disability Futures
      Not resolved to a course
    18. PHIL 316
      Bioethics and Society
      Not resolved to a course
    19. PSYC 231
      Death and Dying
      Not resolved to a course
    20. SOCI 240
      Deaf Culture in America
      Not resolved to a course
    21. SOCI 246
      Gender and Health (WI-GE)
      Not resolved to a course
    22. SOCI 295
      Global Public Health (WI-GE)
      Not resolved to a course
    23. SOCI 322
      Health and Society (WI-GE)
      Not resolved to a course
    24. SOCI 330
      Urban (In)Justice
      Not resolved to a course
    25. SOCI 345
      Urban Poverty
      Not resolved to a course
    26. SOCI 395
      Borders:Humans, Boundaries, and Empires
      Not resolved to a course
    27. STSO 341
      Biomedical Issues: Science and Technology
      Not resolved to a course
    28. STSO 441
      Cyborg Theory: (Re)thinking the Human Experience in the 21st Century
      Not resolved to a course
    29. VISL 383
      Traumatic Images
      Not resolved to a course
    30. VISL 384
      Art of Dying
      Not resolved to a course
    Source. Rochester Institute of Technology, catalog 2026-2027 RIT Undergraduate Catalog — https://academiccatalog.rit.edu/programs/health-culture-society-immersion/. Captured page pages/0283.html.gz. Assembled from the institution's published catalog as captured; every record names its captured page and source URL. Assembled, not asserted.