GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY INTRODUCTION

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: None Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities or Social Science Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize the utility of humanistic methods for the study of global environmental health Audience: Undergraduate 2. Develop critical thinking skills through techniques of close reading and written analysis Audience: Undergraduate 3. Understand essential developments in the evolving relationship between the environment and public health on a global scale. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Explain the social, economic, and/or environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenge(s) of global health issues in developing and industrialized countries Audience: Undergraduate 5. Describe the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of climate change, agriculture, and the built environment and identify potential tradeoffs and interrelationships among these dimensions at a level appropriate to the course. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize the utility of humanistic methods for the study of global environmental health Audience: Undergraduate 2. Develop critical thinking skills through techniques of close reading and written analysis Audience: Undergraduate 3. Understand essential developments in the evolving relationship between the environment and public health on a global scale. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Explain the social, economic, and/or environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenge(s) of global health issues in developing and industrialized countries Audience: Undergraduate 5. Describe the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of climate change, agriculture, and the built environment and identify potential tradeoffs and interrelationships among these dimensions at a level appropriate to the course. Audience: Undergraduate