HSC 362 - Environmental Health Policy

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-D
An overview of the development, content, and implementation of environmental health policy. Students will also be introduced to concepts of environmental justice and the relationship of environmental policy to health equity. Course relies on case examples.

Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area D1-3 requirements.
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 with grade C- (CR) or better.
Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground, or Entirely Online, or Hybrid.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-D - Upper Division Social Sciences
Course Typically Offered: Fall ONLY

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Summarize the environmental health policy process from development to implementation.
Describe basic evaluation and administration techniques in environmental health policy and their relationship to the policy process.
Discuss the relationship between environmental health policy and population health outcomes from a health equity perspective.
Discuss basic issues in public administration and their relationship to environmental health policy.

UD-D. Upper-division Social Sciences Learning Outcomes

analyze how power and social identity affect social outcomes for different cultural and economic groups using methods of social science inquiry and vocabulary appropriate to those methods;
demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply accurately disciplinary concepts of the social or behavioral sciences; and
demonstrate an understanding of and ability to effectively plan or conduct research using an appropriate method of the social or behavioral sciences.