B109 Exploring Environmental and Human Health3 credit(s) This course will investigate the intricate links and connections between environmental and human health, with attention paid to how academic disciplines and sociocultural issues outside the biological sciences (e.g. politics, history) also influence environmental and human health.
This course is designed to assist students to:
1. Describe ways that the health of our natural environment directly and indirectly impacts human health.
2. Explore economic and political ramifications of human diseases linked to exploitation of the environment.
3. Describe how human and environmental health connects with non-science disciplines. 4. Understand how the scientific method can be used to study issues related to environmental and human health.
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