ENST 234 - Case Studies in Global Environmental Health

Environmental health is a field of interdisciplinary study that integrates human society and behavior with ecological processes to understand environmental dimensions of human health. Students focus on not only knowledge generated in the natural and social sciences that concerns human-environmental interactions and its implications for human health risk, but also includes an extensive case study on various emergent issues in public health. Case Studies in Global Environmental Health Issues introduces students to the conceptual and empirical underpinning of the direct and indirect relationships between environment and health, approaches to measuring these relationships, and the ways in which health policies, programs and clinical practices have been organized to reduce risk at various geographic scales: locally, nationally and internationally. Students have an opportunity to complete an extensive research project on issues of environmental health during the second half of the semester.

Credits: 1
Prerequisites: None
Major/Minor Restrictions: None
Class Restriction: None
Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken ENST 233 and ENST333
Area of Inquiry: None
Liberal Arts CORE: None

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