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GEOG 225

Global Environment and Health

Fall 2025

Course Description

Calendar Description for GEOG 225

This course addresses the range of environmental issues that affect human health, with a global focus. This course will use a range of case studies from around the globe to address issues of measurement (of exposures and outcomes), evaluation (study designs), and policy responses.

Students will be exposed to a range of theoretical perspectives and debates, and engage in innovative assessment activities to illustrate their learnings. In this course, we'll see a landscape that reveals the intersection of a number of different land uses and the humans who interact with them. There are industrial land uses, residential land uses, commercial land uses, as well as the natural environment which provides the backcloth for this landscape. As we embark on the course, we will first establish our expectations of each other as well as the intended learning outcomes. That will provide a foundation for everything that we do throughout this course. We will then develop a keen understanding of the foundational concepts we need to be able to explore the measurement, evaluation and implications of human health-environment interactions. This will provide us with the knowledge we need to be able to address the more nuanced aspects of these relationships: the challenges to measurement; issues of social/environmental justice and equity; lay epidemiology; and perhaps others that will arise as we move through the course together. The structure of the course is designed to enhance the student’s ability to think critically, communicate well, and see themselves as a global citizen.

We will accomplish this by following a series of steps across 11 modules. You will see these steps identified in each of the 11 learning modules as:

Read: Before you start the module, read the assigned materials.

Review: Listen to the lecture burst(s).

Watch: There will typically be a video or a film that will illustrate the concepts being discussed in the module.

Do: There will typically be an exercise or a case study for you to engage in that allows you to see the application of the concepts being discussed in the module.

Discuss: We will engage weekly with each other through online discussion forums in order to facilitate peer learning; you should also discuss this material with others in your working and/or social worlds – what do they think about what you’re learning?

Finally, throughout the term, there will be a number of assessments that will allow you to display your learnings in a manner that allows me and the teaching assistants to evaluate them for grading purposes. These are summarized in the Assessments & Activities section of this Outline, and much more detail is provided in the Assignments module in LEARN.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the successful student should be able to:

Define key terms in environment and health.

Illustrate theoretical framings and understandings of environment and health.

Critically assess the reporting of environment and health relationships in the media as well as the peer-reviewed literature.

Value their role as a global citizen.