Children’s Environmental Health

4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: course 100 or 120. Exploration of how environmental exposures during early life, from conception through adolescence, impact human health and development. Unlike adults, children have unique windows of susceptibility where even low-level exposures to toxins can have lifelong consequences. Examination of specific hazards (lead, pesticides, air pollution) and the diseases they cause (asthma, neurodevelopmental disorders, birth outcomes). Letter grading.