Fall 2022 - HSCI 403 D100

Health and the Built Environment (3)

Health and the Built Environment

Class Number: 2156

Delivery Method: In Person

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    Sep 7 – Dec 6, 2022: Thu, 8:30–11:20 a.m.
    Burnaby

  • Prerequisites:

    60 units including HSCI 230 (or 330) with a minimum grade of C-.

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

Relationships between the physical environment in which people live and their health and well being. How the built environment affects physical activity, obesity, exposure to pathogens and toxins, health status, mental health, and risk of illness and injury. How urban form, physical infrastructure, and landscape and building design can promote health. Students with credit for HSCI 309 may not complete this course for credit.

COURSE DETAILS:

Students and the instructor co-create learning in this course and are jointly accountable for outcomes that are intended to be both rich in meaning and directly applicable to life contexts. Learning takes place in the classroom and in the community. Classes comprise short lectures, presentations, discussions, debates, dialogue, experiential activities and projects in which each student is an authentic contributor and through which the class demonstrates progressively higher levels of learning. In lieu of an exam, students apply their original thinking in team projects that promote healthy living in the built environment.

COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:

The goal of this interdisciplinary course is to advance students’ understanding of, and appreciation for, the effects of the built (in contrast to natural) environment on individual and community health, and to advance students’ capacity to reflect such environmental considerations in public health.

Grading

  • Active learning 25%
  • Reflection paper 15%
  • Quiz 15%
  • Applied project (proposal, class session, submission) 45%

Materials

REQUIRED READING:

Botchwey, Nisha, Dannenberg, A.L., Frumkin, Howard. (2nd Edition) (2022). Making Healthy Places: Designing and building for well-being, equity and sustainability. Washington, DC: Island Press.
ISBN: 9781642831580

REQUIRED READING NOTES:

Your personalized Course Material list, including digital and physical textbooks, are available through the SFU Bookstore website by simply entering your Computing ID at: shop.sfu.ca/course-materials/my-personalized-course-materials.

Registrar Notes:

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: YOUR WORK, YOUR SUCCESS

SFU’s Academic Integrity website http://www.sfu.ca/students/academicintegrity.html is filled with information on what is meant by academic dishonesty, where you can find resources to help with your studies and the consequences of cheating. Check out the site for more information and videos that help explain the issues in plain English.

Each student is responsible for his or her conduct as it affects the university community. Academic dishonesty, in whatever form, is ultimately destructive of the values of the university. Furthermore, it is unfair and discouraging to the majority of students who pursue their studies honestly. Scholarly integrity is required of all members of the university. http://www.sfu.ca/policies/gazette/student/s10-01.html