Official Master's
University Official Master's Degree in Medical Anthropology and International Health
- Mode: research and professional
- Duration (in credits): between 60 and 120
- Qualification awarded: Master's Degree in Medical Anthropology and International Health
- Places available: 20
- Cost per credit
- Admission to doctoral programmes
- Contact
Participating institutions
Rovira i Virgili University
Compulsory student mobility: no
Presentation
The aim of the master's degree is for students to learn to understand health/illness/care processes and the role of biological, social and cultural variables, and also to analyse cultural representations and social practices in the field of health. The master's degree includes training in qualitative methodologies and techniques of health research and the chance to acquire practical experience in basic and applied research projects or in tutored practicel education in institutions.
Admission requirements
The Master's Degree courses are open to anybody with an official university qualification, even Spanish or foreign (this foreign degree must enable you to be admitted to postgraduate studies in the country where you obtained it).
In addition, universities in charge of the organization of a Master can establish those procedures and requirements considered necessary to be finally admitted to the Master. Therefore, as well as having a previous official degree, you should get informed about additional conditions and selection criteria which may have been addittionally established by each Master.
Contents
Course taught in: Spanish
The course is structured in four semesters over two years. The first year is compulsory (first and second semester). The second year consists of an optional semester (the third), which the student can do wholly or partiall outside the URV, and the fourth semester, which students spend writing their master's dissertation or doing their Practicum, which ends with a workshop. This 2nd-year structure is sufficiently flexible for students to design their own supervised study programmes, taking advantage of the wide range of resources provided by our network of collaborators.
Some of the subjects can be shared with the Master's Degree in Urban Anthropology (Techniques, theory, optional third-semester subjects).
Subjects:
First semester (obligatory subjects)
The Hegemony of Western Medicine and the Process of Medicalization
The Ethnography of Profane Health Practices
Theory 1. The Paradigms of Systematic Medicines
Workshop on QuantitativeTechniques
Epidemiology and Designs of Public Health
Documentation in Medical Anthropology
Ethnographic Methodology
First semester (optional subjects)
Anthropology
The Fundamentals of Health Sciences
Second semester (obligatory subjects)
QualitativeTechniques
Demography Workshop.
Research Designs in Applied Anthropology
Workshop on Techniques and Designs of Multivariate Analysis and Cultural Domain Analysis
Theory 2: Gender, Inequalities, Conflict, Body and Emotions
Theory 3. The Phenomenological and Culturalist Schools
Theory 4: Sociological Orientations
Theory 5. Critical Orientations
Third semester (optional subjects)
Seminar 1. Mental Health
Seminar 2. International Health and Infectious Diseases
Seminar 3. Public Policies, Migrations, Multiculturalism and Care
Seminar 4. Food, Nutrition and Eating Disorders
Seminar 5. Social and Health Problems Ageing, Drugs and Medicines
Fourth semester (obligatory subjects)
Seminar.
Final colloquium
Fourth semester (optional subjects)
Practicum (professional mode)
Master's degree dissertation (research mode)
Modes
- Professional (to be activated in 2007-08)
- Research
Official Master's degrees offer specific Modes which will be effectively initiated -or not- depending on the number of students finally admitted.
Pre-registration
The preregistration period (1st phase) will begin on 1st March and end on 30th April.
If all the places available are not taken within this period, a new preregistration period will be opened (2nd phase) between 1st and 30th June.
The preregistration must be carried out on the Internet. The online form will become operative on the first day of the preregistration period. preregistration application.
For academic questions, please get in touch with the coordinator of the Masters. For administrative information, contact the secretariat of the faculty/school that teaches the Master's Degree; if you have been offered a place in the program on the strength of a foreign qualification, the Postgraduate and Doctoral School will inform you of the documents you will need.
Preinscripción en línia
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Dr. Ángel Martínez Hernáez
Department of Anthropology, Philosophy and Social Work (Faculty of Arts)
977 558 139
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| Postgraduate and Doctoral School |
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Mornings: Mondays to Fridays from 8.30 to 14.30 Afternoons: Wednesdays and Thursdays from 15.30 to 18.00 July and August: Mondays to Fridays from 8.00 to 15.00 |
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