ANTH 1311 is a Community-Based Research and Learning course (CBLR) — providing students with a foundation for thinking about how the ways people use language shape and are shaped by the medical sphere. It explores the intersections of language, medicine and health, culture, and society.

In this course spotlight, Associate Professor of Anthropology Katherine Mason and Associate Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics Paja Faudree give a brief synopsis of their team-taught course, Language and Medicine in Practice. 

"In Language and Medicine in Practice, we are working together to combine the insights of linguistic and medical anthropology — two subfields that until recently were rarely put into conversation with each other. This is a course that has been years in the making so we are really excited to combine forces and learn from each other! With our students we are doing a deep dive into deconstructing the language that clinicians, patients, and public health professionals use when they are talking about health and illness. Students also design their own practicum projects in which they are conducting participant observation in healthcare settings and paying special attention to the language that their mentors and colleagues are using." 

Learn more and explore other course offerings in anthropology at cab.brown.edu