printer friendly pageHUMBIO 116: Controlling Climate Change in the 21st Century (BIO 147, BIO 247, EARTHSYS 147, EARTHSYS 247)
Global climate change science, impacts, and response strategies. Topics: scientific understanding of the climate system; modeling future climate change; global and regional climate impacts and vulnerability; mitigation and adaptation approaches; the international climate policy challenge; and decarbonization of energy and transportation systems.
| UG Reqs: GER: DB-NatSci
HUMBIO 117: Environment and Health: An Impact Assessment (ANTHRO 117A)
The effects of environment upon human and animal health and vice versa, including impacts of climate change, local environment (urban/rural health issues), land-use change upon health issues such as asthma, cholera, and malaria. Emphasis is on interdisciplinary approaches including medicine, epidemiology, ecology, and environmental science. Health/environment topics from multiple levels, such as from the standpoint of the individual organism to the ecosystem. How such knowledge is applied to policy and public health. Students construct new conceptual models for health/environment case studies.
Instructors:
Salkeld, D. (PI)
HUMBIO 120A: Health Policy and Health Care System Design
The design of health care systems and their ability to improve the health of the population successfully. Concepts related to health care systems and components. Focus is on the health care systems of the U.S. and UK.
HUMBIO 123: Planning and Evaluating Health Education and Community Services in Underserved Communities
The class is targeted to students who would like to build skills necessary to help communities in a rigorous way. With current accountability demands, most organizations find themselves needing to document the success of their interventions. This class aims to help students interested in working with non-profit organizations to acquire skills needed in grant writing and evaluation. Within a service learning framework the emphasis of the class will be in providing the tools to build rigorous planning and evaluation protocols.
HUMBIO 127A: Community Health: Assessment and Planning I
Major determinants of health in a community. Working with community partners to identify health issues and plan programs and policies to prevent disease and promote health. Service learning component involving students in community health assessment techniques. Prerequisite: 4B or equivalent, or consent of instructor.
HUMBIO 127B: Community Health: Assessment and Planning II
Continuation of 127A. Service learning course with emphasis on conducting community health assessment and planning projects in collaboration with community-based organizations. Prerequisite: 4B or equivalent, 127A, or consent of instructor.
HUMBIO 129P: International Health Policy: Comparative Health Care Systems
Key dimensions and issues involved in affluent health care systems in countries such as the U.K., Canada, Germany, Sweden, Japan, and France, including pharmaceutical policy and lessons for U.S. Key problems that health care systems face, principal characteristics of several systems, forces of change, and structural differences. How a given country approaches health care reveals its values, sense of justice, views on rationing, interest groups, and political power structure.
HUMBIO 132: Functional Anatomy of Exercise
Interdisciplinary: physiology, pathology, and biomechanics. Anatomy of the body¿s major joints in the context of exercise and movement emphasizing adaptations that occur with intensity and nature of exercise, age, and disease. Students work in cooperative groups with students at the Gothenburg School of Sports Science in Sweden to produce original research on an aspect of biomechanics and sport. Sources include the Stanford Human Performance Laboratory. Enrollment limited to 40. Prerequisites: 139 or consent of instructor.
Instructors:
Garza, D. (PI)
HUMBIO 141V: Vertebrate Biology
Study of structure, function, evolution and behavior of vertebrate animals. Consideration of vertebrate origins and examination of classes of vertebrates. Physiology, morphology, behaviors and evolutionary relationships are treated in each vertebrate group, as these relate to overall evolutionary trends within vertebrates. Topics: swimming behaviors in sharks and bony fishes, olfaction and vision in fishes, sex determination in amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, navigation in sea turtles and birds, evolution and biomechanics of flight in pterosaurs birds and bats, vocalization in whales and birds, temperature adaptation in reptiles, birds and mammals.
HUMBIO 145: Birds to Words: Cognition, Communication, and Language (PSYCH 137, PSYCH 239A)
Although the communicative abilities of animals are determined by their genetic endowment, and human communicative skills dwarf those of other species, the relation between language and genetics remains the subject of debate. Is human language genetically specified? Or are human communicative powers just one facet of human cognitive advantage? Focus is on the nature and origins of language, using evidence from studies of animals, children, and adults.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
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