Dec 06, 2025  
2025-2026 Winona Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Winona Undergraduate Catalog
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B109 Exploring Environmental and Human Health

3 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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