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2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

EXP 1402 - Environmental Change, Health and Well-Being

Credits: 3


Explorations Courses focus on enduring questions. Enduring questions do not have easy answers; instead, they encourage examination of complex issues from multiple perspectives, introspection, evidence-based arguments, and learning how to respectfully discuss controversial and difficult topics. This course examines the constraints and opportunities for human flourishing by exploring the nexus of global environmental degradation, disease and poverty. Systems thinking is used to explore how this degradation opens pathways for disease, ill health, poverty, food insecurity and catalyzes or maintains conflict. Students will analyze the root causes of these problems, impacts on global populations and assess and propose policies using the yardstick of health and environmental sustainability. Students will also examine the Merrimack Connections curriculum.

 
Fulfills: D and SOSC in LS core