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Overview Getting Around the Web Site to Learn What is Expected
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Maxwell, Nancy Irwin (2014) Understanding Environmental Health: How We Live in the World. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning (Web Resources), Ebook Purchase Site with Coursesmart.
This course is designed to provide students with an introduction to and overview of the key areas of environmental health. The principal text, Understanding Environmental Health by Nancy Irwin Maxwell, takes a unique approach to presenting environmental health to students. Rather than being organized around the traditional regulatory fields (air pollution, hazardous wastes, etc.), this book is structured around the things we do as individuals and societies that result in environmental health hazards. The author details the hazards of energy production, industry, food production, and the modern lifestyle, while exploring our place within the global community. Thereafter students have an opportunity to reflect upon the practical implications of some of the theoretical material presented in the Maxwell text by considering several case studies. Using this perspective, the course will cover factors associated with the development of environmental health problems. Students will gain an understanding of the interaction of individuals and communities with the environment, the potential impact on health of environmental agents, and specific applications of concepts of environmental health. The course will consist of a series of lectures and will cover principles derived from core environmental health disciplines. The sequence of major topics begins with background material and “tools of the trade” (environmental epidemiology, environmental toxicology, and environmental policy and regulation). The course then covers specific agents of environmental diseases (e.g., microbial agents, ionizing and non-ionizing radiation). Finally, applications and domains of environmental health are addressed (e.g., water and air quality, food safety, waste disposal, and occupational health). Students will be expected to become familiar with a broad range of environmental health issues to include:
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Students who complete this course will be able to:
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ONE: Attend and participate in class on a regular basis through weekly posting of homework on Canvas Email: Class attendance is very important in this course. Class participation centers around participation in completing and posting homework and at Canvas Email. Homework completion counts as 40% for 10 week students during Summer C. Homework completion also reflects upon the class participation grade. Students must receive permission from the instructor to miss a class. Missing (i.e. nonparticipation or inadequate participation in class activities) for 3 classes or more without instructor permission will result in students being withdrawn from the class. Homework submitted later than 5:00 p.m. on the final date of each class session will will be considered late homework and will not be credited toward class attendance and participation. Distance learning course are considered to operate over a seven day week period. |
TWO: Successfully complete the comprehensive examination during the class session set aside for that purpose. The exam - accounting for 50% of your grade during 10 week Summer C sessions - will be administered via Canvas Email. |
THREE: Complete the pre-test and post-test assessments for this course. The directions to reaching these assessments will be mailed to all students during the first and ninth weeks of the course. Students are required to complete both assessments to complete the class and to get 10% of their course grade. |
10 Week Grade Breakdown
Grading Scale
Homework submitted later than 5:00 p.m. on the final date of the class session will will be considered late homework and will not be credited toward class attendance and participation. Distance learning course are considered to operate over a seven day week period. NOTE: Course assignments and schedule, course objectives, and grading criteria, distributions and weights may change as circumstances dictate and at the discretion of the instructor. |
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None Completing Homework: Students participating in class sessions will, on a weekly basis, prepare their homework assignments and post their responses to Canvas Email. All posted attachments must be in Word format. All students are required to prepare written responses to the study questions assigned weekly, and are responsible for being prepared to answer and explain all questions. Make sure that in naming your Word file for the homework you are posting that you use short titles and only use letters and numbers in the title. Never use the # sign in the name of a file you are postings, since the software for the lesson board can't open any file with such a symbol in it. Typically, students should expect to spend between 6 and 9 hours of course effort weekly. Some week's assignments may entail less time investment, while other class periods may entail more effort. I strongly encourage every student to take the time to complete the following online APA Citation and Reference Tutorial offered by Harvard University and another online APA tutorial by the American Psychological Association. One of the objectives of this class is that you learn how to use the APA documentation style. You can learn everything you need to know about how to use this method by studying the material at the following sites. Please understand that any of your discussion questions or your student presentation papers that are lacking in complete APA styled documentation will be returned to you and will not be graded until they are in order. |
Course assignments and schedule, course objectives, and grading criteria, weights and distribution may change as circumstances dictate and at the discretion of the instructor |
