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NYUS3504: Environmental Health in a Global World

2025 unit information

This unit of study is only available to students approved to be participating in the NYU Sydney Program.

Unit details and rules

Managing faculty or University school:

Medicine and Health

Study level Undergraduate
Academic unit Public Health
Credit points 6
Prerequisites:
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None
Corequisites:
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None
Prohibitions:
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None
Assumed knowledge:
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None

At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:

  • LO1. Define and describe the field of environmental health
  • LO2. Be familiar with different roles and responsibilities of government agencies in monitoring and addressing environmental health.
  • LO3. Have considered aspects of environmental health issues both domestically and internationally.
  • LO4. Be acquainted with the origins of the field, and with some of the issues it faces today.
  • LO5. Understand the relationship between social movements and efforts to address environmental health threats

Unit availability

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Session MoA ?  Location Outline ? 
Semester 1 2025
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 2 2025
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Outline unavailable
Session MoA ?  Location Outline ? 
Semester 1 2023
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 2 2023
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
Semester 1 2024
Normal day Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney

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