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- Concepts and Principles: Students will demonstrate understanding of concepts and theoretical principles central to the sociomedical sciences, including but not limited to: biopower, biopolitics, complementary and alternative medicine, cultural competence, embodiment, explanatory models of illness, health inequity, implicit bias, integrative medicine, intersectionality, medical/clinical gaze, medical pluralism, medical racism, social inequality, economicsocial, political, environmental, cultural and biological determinants of health; intersectionality; social inequality; , structural competence, structural inequities; health disparities, inequality and inequity; cross-cultural conceptions of and practices associated with illness, health, and healing; complementary and alternative medicine and integrative medicine; cultural and structural competence; and biopower and biopolitics, structural violence, structural vulnerability.
- Critical Thinking & Application: Students will demonstrate critical thinking, written and oral communication skills, and be able to read, understand, and synthesize—in writing and speech—published scholarship in allied subfields of sociomedical sciences, including medical anthropology, medical sociology, public health, epidemiology, biology, geography, psychology, and political science.
- Research Methods, Data Analysis & Presentation of Results: Students will be able to design, implement and present the results of an independent research project, employing interdisciplinary research and data analysis methods to examine an issue or topic related to health and medicine, including but not limited to the use of qualitative interviews, while understanding and observing ethical guidelines for research with human subjects.
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