PLSCI 6450

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PLSCI 6450
Urban Plants and Public Health

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

This class examines how urban plants affect public health (e.g., air pollution reduction, temperature regulation, etc.). We will also explore the causes and health consequences of variation in urban plant composition, environmental justice perspectives, the effects of policies and management approaches, and the impacts of climate change.

When Offered Fall.

Outcomes
  • Describe the public health relevance of urban trees.
  • Independently identify and interpret peer-reviewed journal articles and extract quantitative data from them.
  • Analyze the public health consequences of plant-human interactions in a case study.
  • Create written and verbal summaries of research findings from the case study.
  • Synthesize case studies into a submission-ready manuscript.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PLSCI 4450

  • 3 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 19063 PLSCI 6450   LEC 001

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    • TR
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Katz, D

  • Enrollment limited to: graduate students. Students must have taken a college-level statistics class and be comfortable reading peer-reviewed journal articles.