Admission requirements
None.
Description
This course explores people's relationship with their environment, the risk management choices made, and the resulting associations that affect the health and physical well-being of individuals, communities, and susceptible populations. The course also emphasizes a “One Health” approach to environmental and occupational health issues that considers the ecological relationships between human, animal, and environmental health. The course examines a representative sample of environmental hazards and significant ecological events and media, with the comparative local and global cases through a problem-solving approach. Course assignments stress developing basic literacy in environmental and occupational concepts and applying this knowledge to problem-solving. As everyone is affected by environmental health principles and topical areas of concern every day, we all eat, drink, produce waste, and breathe air daily. This course delivers essential information and resources for the student's own health and wellness advocacy as they move out beyond this institution.
Course Objectives
Describe and discuss foundational concepts and strategies of environmental and occupational health sciences, one health framework, and their relationship to public health practice, and draw generalizable conclusions about how they apply in different situations.
Practice investigative skills where students apply foundational concepts and strategies, contextual analysis, and systems thinking in comprehensive environmental and occupational health investigations, one health framework.
Characterize methodologies and approaches to understanding and managing risks to health and the environment and describe significant factors that determine environmental health risks relevant to urban health, water and sanitation, solid waste, and emerging health topics.
Communicate information in plain language (orally and in writing) to a target audience about environmental health risks, influential factors, and prevention strategies; and anticipate or identify risk perceptions and relevant concerns in the target audience.
Perform effectively on teams and in different roles; promote collegiality, inclusion and trust; and apply ethical principles to the learning experience
Timetable
Timetables for courses offered at Leiden University College in 2025-2026 will be published on this page of the e-Prospectus.
Mode of instruction
Methods of Instruction: Lecture, discussions, podcast listening, media viewing, among others.
Assessment Method
Participation/ Some Good News Assignment (media representation) 20%
Group project - Communicating science through “unessay” project (40%)
Midterm exam (40%), Week 4
Reading list
Reading materials will be shared in the syllabus and on Brightspace.
Registration
Courses offered at Leiden University College (LUC) are usually only open to LUC students and LUC exchange students. Leiden University students who participate in one of the university’s Honours tracks or programmes may register for one LUC course, if availability permits. Registration is coordinated by the Education Coordinator, course.administration@luc.leidenuniv.nl.
Contact
Dr. Minjung Cho, m.j.cho@luc.leidenuniv.nl
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