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- Effective Term:
- Fall 2022 through Summer 2023
- Course Number:
- HE 278
- Course Title:
- Human Health and the Environment
- Credit Hours:
- 3
- Lecture Hours:
- 30
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 0
Course Description
Intended Outcomes for the course
1. Apply knowledge about current and emerging human environmental health issues to determine potential future behaviors and attitudes that lessen the harm to the immediate and the future health of individuals and their communities.
2. Determine and demonstrate an understanding of current and emerging health and environmental issues in order to develop a personal strategic plan to lessen harm to one’s immediate and future health from environmental contaminants, environmental toxins, and chemical exposures.
3. Assess the relationship between personal lifestyle choices, the environment, and human health to inform future personal and community health decisions.
Course Activities and Design
Course activities will include lectures, class discussions, individual or group projects, research, presentations, reading, internet activities, assessment, and reflection. The course could be delivered via any PCC-approved modalities. SAC-approved course shell will be used for the online course.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
At the beginning of the course, the instructor will detail the methods used to evaluate student progress and the criteria for assigning a course grade.
Assessment methods may include the following:
- Written examinations
- Written assignments
- Critical analysis of material
- Course activities and discussion
- Presentations and/or projects
- Participation in class activities
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
- Discuss emerging evidence relating environmental issues to their impact on individual, community, and global health.
- Identify examples of how toxic agents and environmental contaminants compromise the functionality of the human body.
- Explore emerging research on pollution in people, biomonitoring, and its impact on health.
- Understand how environmental characteristics and climate change influences disease transmission, communicable and noncommunicable disease outbreaks.
- Identify and relate global environmental health changes and their potential consequences for human health.
- Examine content of professional journals, other media sources, and publications of environmental and public health surveillance agencies.
- Explore the relationship and interaction between government agencies and private industry
- Assess lifestyle choices and how those choices impact the environment and health across the socioecological model.
- Apply the Socioecological Model to environmental health issues to assess personal, community, and global influences and determine potential future intervention strategies.