The fundamentals of environmental health (EH) including energy and ecosystems, air and water pollution, toxic effects of pollution, pollution control, food and agriculture, environmental justice, and the consequences of human activities on natural systems. Global issues in EH are compared from multiple demographic and cultural perspectives.
Athena Title
Found in Env Health
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in EHSC 3060E
Prerequisite
BIOL 1103 or BIOL 1103E or BIOL 2103H or BIOL 2103S or BIOL 1107 or BIOL 1107E or BIOL 2107H or EHSC 2020
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall, spring and summer
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
Students will describe how humans interact with the environment and the effects of such interactions on both ecosystem and human health.
Students will discuss the importance of environmental preservation from several cultural perspectives within the United States and from developed nations vs. underdeveloped nations.
Students will explain general concepts in the control of environmental health problems.
Students will discuss relevant issues in environmental health from a rational scientific perspective.
Students will discuss issues of environmental justice and its effect on specific races and cultures.
Students will address environmental topics from the perspective of multiple demographic worlds, with an emphasis on lesser developed countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Students will relate the history of environmental issues to the development of current legislation has been shaped from past practices.
Students will discern scientific information from skewed portrayals of politically-charged, environmental topics in the media.
Students will analyze how human interactions with the environment affect both ecosystems and human health.
Students will examine relevant issues in environmental health from a rational scientific perspective to a broad audience using scientific data.
Students will compare issues of global environmental justice and its effects in both developed and developing nations.
Students will evaluate environmental topics in the media using evidence-based resources (scientific data).
