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What is the advantage of being part of a joint program? What is the difference between the Medical Anthropology Program on the Berkeley and San Francisco Campuses?

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What is the advantage of being part of a joint program? What is the difference between the Medical Anthropology Program on the Berkeley and San Francisco Campuses?

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The programs admit students separately and are administered separately, although students take courses together at both campuses and work with faculty at both campuses. The advantage of a joint program is it facilitates access to the academic and scholarly benefits of both campuses. It also increases the number of faculty available to work with students. Briefly, the San Francisco campus has an outstanding Medical School and many related medical research projects and centers the part of the program at UCSF is in a department devoted to medical anthropology and history. On the other hand, the part of the program at UCB is located in a department of anthropology which is devoted primarily to cultural anthropology and archaeology and can therefore provide interaction in those areas. The UCB campus also has departments in other social sciences and humanities (in Public Health, Education, History, Sociology, Public Policy, Environmental Sciences, etc.), as well as the several interdisciplin

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