EVPP 427: Conservation Medicine

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Presents the trans-disciplinary discipline of conservation medicine, the study of relationships between organism and ecosystem health and environmental conditions. Topics include infectious and noninfectious diseases, pathogens, processes, and impacts on human, biotic, and ecosystem health, and how to address the consequences of diseases to populations and ecological communities. Notes: This course will co-meet with EVPP 527. Undergraduate students in this course will have separate (shorter) reading and writing assignments and will be graded according to a different rubric than the graduate students. Equivalent to BIOL 427.
Recommended Prerequisite: 60 credits and BIOL 213 or BIOL/EVPP 305/306 and BIOL 308 OR EVPP 301, or permission of instructor.
Schedule Type: Lecture
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.