Global Health CC

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

We are in the midst of what has been termed the Anthropocene Era, defined as a period in which human activities have caused significant changes to our planet. Such changes are having impacts on human health worldwide (not to mention the other living things we share our planet with). In this course, we will first examine what we mean by global health, then discuss how humans have impacted the climate, and finally wind these two threads together to understand how these changes affect human health now and how we can use current information to predict future change. In this course, we will investigate these fields of study from a variety of standpoints: scientific, economic, emotional, philosophical, etc. We will develop an understanding of the current state of thought by delving into the known information and then using this information to move into the unknown to examine current questions and controversies.