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Required Texts:  

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.

Course Description:

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.

Students will be expected to become familiar with a broad range of environmental health issues to include:

• Environmental Toxicology

• Epidemiology & Risk Assessment

• Workplace Safety

• Air, Water, & Soil Pollution

• Solid and Liquid Waste

• Drinking Water

• Health Concerns Related to Rodents & Insects

• Radiation, Energy & Health

• Environmental Law

• Disaster Preparedness,

• Pollution Monitoring and Safety Standards.

Objectives:

Students who complete this course will be able to: 

1. Discuss the history and definition of environmental health.

2. Discuss the association between population growth and dissemination of environmental pollutants.

3. Describe methods used in epidemiology and toxicology to assess environmental exposures and hazards.

4. Describe policies that have been developed to manage health risks associated with exposures to environmental hazards.

5. Identify chemical, physical, and microbial agents that originate in the environment and can impact human health.

6. Describe specific applications of environmental health concepts to fields such as water quality control, food safety, and occupational health.

7. Enable students to utilize the APA documentation method to reflect where they draw the material they use in their written assignments.

Basic Course Requirements

1. "Attend and participate in class on a regular basis through weekly posting of homework on the course lesson  board.

Class attendance is very important in this course. Class participation centers around participation in completing and posting homework and at the course's Canvas email address. Homework completion counts as 50% of the course grade 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. All homework must be sent to the instructor via Canvas Email and ONLY via this route. All work must be in Microsoft Word or Rich Text Format and must be fully cited and referenced in APA format. Students can access Microsoft Word for free by clicking on the Word Online .

To use this online Word resource you have to set up an email account with Microsoft or Hotmail. I recommend Hotmail. Again, you can reach Word Online at this URL: https://office.com/start/default.aspx?WT.z_clid=Office_Products_site.

Once in Word online it will ask you to sign into your account. Thereafter you can create your homework. You will hit "file" then "save as" and save your work. The default name it will likely give your work is "document." You can see this at the top middle of your screen when working on your homework. You can highlight "document" with your cursor and type in a new name and when you hit "save as" it will save your work. Now it saves it to something called "Onedrive" and you can see a link for that on the online Word page right up toward the middle upper left of the screen. Click on Onedrive and it takes you to a screen where on the left you will see the words "file" "recent docs" "all photos" and "shared."You will click on "recent docs" and a list of what you have saved to Onedrive will appear. Click on your homework with the right mouse button and a list of options will appear to include "download." That action will cause the file to be downloaded as a Word document to your download file where you can access it to email your instructor on Canvas.

Every answer that comes from a source (even the textbook) must be cited in APA format (Author, Year, Page) and must be accompanied by a reference to the source at the end of the assignment (one reference regardless of how many times the source has been cited. The reference should be able to direct the reader the the precise source cited regardless of whether it is textual or on the web.

2. Successfully complete the comprehensive examination during the class session set aside for that purpose. 

The exams - accounting for 50% of the course grade . It will be administered via Canvas Email.

3. Complete all course assignments in a timely and thorough fashion and weekly post study question and homework answers to Canvas Email 

All course assignments must be completed weekly, be submitted weekly an on time via Canvas email and must include APA source documentation. Additionally, each week's assignment must include the question followed immediately with the student's response and all papers must include the students name, the course name, the assignment number and the date. Work failing to fully meet these criteria will receive no credit. Likewise assignments turned in late will receive no credit. Homework submitted by Canvas eamil 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. The dates for each class session can be found in the course schedule located on the course home page. Distance learning course are considered to operate over a seven day week period.

NOTE: Students will be given credit for turning in their homework completely and on time. Students will be responsible for assuring that all study questions are appropriately cited and referenced using APA style. Failure to comply with these citation and reference standards will result in grade point reductions.

You will also want to pay particular attention to the course overview section. You will see that all of your work must be attached to a Canvas email to the instructor that corresponds with the class session you are working in and attachments must be in Word or rich text format (.rtf). Any other format can’t be opened and therefore can’t and won't be graded. All homework must be promptly turned in by 5 pm at the end of each class session or it will not be graded period. Class sessions typically last for a week. The dates for each class session are found on the home page of the course.

ALL of your assigned written course work must be submitted via weekly Canvas email with a header description corresponding with the session number of the assignment. All homework must be in either Word, or Rich Text format format to be graded. Any work that the instructor can’t open you won’t receive a grade on regardless of when it was submitted. It is your responsibility to insure the instructor can read all of your work. Any homework typed into the memo field of an email will be ignored and won’t be graded – period. Any homework attached to an email address for the instructor other than the one in Canvas email will not be opened or graded. Any attached assignment of whatever kind that is attached to an email other than Canvas email will not be graded period. ONLY assignments that are tuned in on time which I can open will be graded. Any deviation from this practice on your part means you will not receive a grade for that assignment. If you fail to turn in assignments for three consecutive course session, or during four of the first five class sessions you will be considered a course “no show” and will be withdrawn from the course by me. Failure to turn in 4 of your homework assignments and you will insure your failing the course.

4. Complete the pretest and posttest sent to you by canvase email (both tests) or lose 5% of your final grade.

Omitting either test will cost you 5% of your final grade. There is no credit for takint the exam only penalty for failing to complete it!