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MEDS2012: Humans and our Environment
2026 unit information
The ever-changing environment impacts human health and the fate of human evolution. This unit will explore how current advances in medical science are providing solutions to the environmental impacts on human health with a focus on eating, breathing, and sleeping. Environmental impacts include climate change, new and emerging diseases, toxins, which affect diet, exercise, and cues that influence healthy patterns such as sleep. This unit will take on interdisciplinary approaches to explore these impacts and completion of this unit will ensure you understand successful strategies and approaches to addressing these important challenges in the medical sciences into the future.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Medicine and Health
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Department of Medical Sciences |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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6 credit points of (MEDS1001) and 6 credit points of (MEDS1002 or BIOL1XX7) |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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None |
| Assumed knowledge:
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Describe how humans can create healthy lives.
- LO2. Describe the impacts of the environment on human health including pollution, toxins, climate change.
- LO3. Propose defences to the challenges of a changing environment on human health including physiological responses to stress and mental wellbeing.
- LO4. Collect, synthesise, analyse and critically evaluate medical science data and information from a range of sources.
- LO5. Apply rational, independent and critical thought to the challenges the environment poses to the human body.
- LO6. Demonstrate creative and innovative approaches to problem solving in medical science research by working effectively, responsibly, respectfully and safely in individual and collaborative contexts.
- LO7. Communicate your knowledge of the environmental impacts to medical science using oral, visual and written formats.
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Semester 2 2026
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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