CH 540 - Environmental Pollution and Health

Institution:

Wagner College

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Description:

One unit. The course is offered under the Expanding Your Horizons program in spring semester with an experiential learning at overseas during the preceding winter break. A course addressing water and air pollution in developing countries with special focus to the emerging groundwater arsenic contamination in a number of countries. Faculty-led fi eld visits to arsenic affected areas in Bangladesh or India are arranged as part of the course work. Course covers environmental sampling and analysis, household energy, indoor air pollution in rural households and its impact on child and mother health in developing nations. Prerequisites: permission of instructor; open to science and non-science majors. (Course fee to cover overseas trip is required)

Credits:

1.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.wagner.edu

Phone Number:

(718) 390-3100

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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