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Environmental Toxicology
Course Stats
Instructor(s): Joel Meyer and Rich di Giulio |
Units: 3 |
Semester Offered: Fall |
Description
Study of environmental contaminants from a broad perspective encompassing biochemical, ecological, and toxicological principles and methodologies. Discussion of sources, environmental transport and transformation phenomena, accumulation in biota and ecosystems. Impacts at various levels of organization, particularly biochemical and physiological effects. Prerequisites: organic chemistry and vertebrate physiology or consent of instructor. Instructor: Di Giulio
Skills and Career Applications
Registration Advice
It's a pretty small class (20 or so students and 2 TAs). It's definitely quite a lot of work, especially the readings. The readings are really crucial. You'll be lost on tests and papers if you don't keep up with them.
I took the course with Econ, GIS, and Stats, so my opinion may be a bit skewed, but I felt like it was a pretty heavy workload.
Student Opinions
Lectures focus very heavily on reactions and small-scale interactions. Exposure pathways and chemical interactions are key. "Environmental toxicology" is somewhat of a misnomer, as not much focus is paid to ecosystem level effects or toxin transport.
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- No textbook (but a bajillion journal articles)