Topics In Anthropology (390-0-23)

Topic

Methods in Global Health & Anthropology: Turning Y

Instructors

Sera Lewise Young
847/467-2174
1819 Hinman Avenue
The focus of Dr. Young’s work is on the reduction maternal and child undernutrition in low-resource settings, especially sub-Saharan Africa. Methodologically, she draws on her training in medical anthropology (MA, University of Amsterdam), international nutrition (PhD, Cornell) and HIV (Fellowship, University of California San Francisco) to take a biocultural approach to understanding how mothers in low-resource settings cope to preserve their health and that of their families.

Meeting Info

Parkes Hall 215: Tues, Thurs 9:30AM - 10:50AM

Overview of class

This class will provide rigorous guidance on how one moves through the scientific process, from articulating scientific questions to answering and presenting them in a way that your audience can really relate to. We will do this using data from a large dataset—the Gallup World Poll. Specific skills to be developed include human subjects training, formal literature review, hypothesis generation, development of analytic plans, performing descriptive statistics, creation of figures and tables, writing up results, scientific poster creation, and oral presentation of results. This course will be a terrific foundation for writing scientific manuscripts, theses, and dissertations.

Class Materials (Required)

Texts will be made available via Canvas.