Science and Power: The Corruption of Environmental Health

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The topics we focus on include: the use of human research subjects, the corporate use and corruption of science, health and development, and climate change’s impact on environmental health. What are the most effective ways to improve environmental health on the local, national, and/or global level? Developing a plan(s) to achieve improvements in environmental health is the main purpose of the course. Various reading, videos, and guest faculty will address this question, but the answer is not known. If the answer was known these problems (and this course) would not exist. Students will be expected to develop creative approaches to various solution(s) eg. Tiktok, TV show, plan for community organizing, legislation etc.