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Published on November 1, 2018
Advanced Topics in Environment and Health (ENVS4800)
Instructor: Martin Bunch
Course dates: February 16-24, 2019
Course is open to undergraduate (3rd & 4th year) and graduate students
During the 2019 Reading Week, the Faculty of Environmental Studies will offer an intensive “Ecohealth” course at York’s Las Nubes EcoCampus in Costa Rica.
In this course students will explore ecosystem management, international development practice, conservation, global health, applied systems thinking, food sovereignty & security, participatory methods, social innovation, and more.
It will focus on the case study of “linking heath, environment and community in the Alexander Skutch Biological Corridor”, with multiple field visits in the region. However, the projects that course participants will develop can be associated with any environment and health situation in any location.
For more details visit:
lasnubes.info.yorku.ca/education/reading-week-course
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