Sociology (SOCI) 348
Sociology of Environment and Health (Revision 1)
Delivery Mode: Individualized study or grouped
study
Audio component*.
*Overseas students, please contact the University Library before registering in a course that has an audio/visual component.
Credits: 3
Area of Study: Social Science
Prerequisite: None.
Faculty: Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
SOCI 348 is not available for Challenge.
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Overview
Sociology 348: Sociology of Environment and Health is a three-credit, intermediate-level course that explores the relationship between the impacts of industrial activity on the environments in which people live and work, and the health of those exposed to these impacts.
Outline
Unit 1: Getting Started
Unit 2: Communities Organize to Investigate and Challenge Toxic Exposure
Unit 3: Popular Epidemiology in Contaminated Communities
Unit 4: Cancer and the Environment
Unit 5: Holding Governments, Corporations and Scientists Accountable
Unit 6: Exploring Industrial Agriculture and the Military-Industrial Complex
Unit 7: Environmental Justice and the Manufacture of Computers
Unit 8: Globalization: Computers
Evaluation
To receive credit for SOCI 348, is based on the grades you achieve on three tutor-marked assignments and a final examination. You must achieve a grade of 50 per cent on the final examination, and a minimum overall course grade of “D” (50 percent). The weighting of the composite grade is as follows:
| Assignment 1 | Assignment 2 | Assignment 3 | Final Exam | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20% | 5% | 35% | 40% | 100% |
To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.
Course Materials
Textbook
Barlow, Maude, and Elizabeth May. Frederick Street:
Life and Death on Canada's Love Canal. Toronto: Harper
Collins. 2000.
Brown, Phil, and Edwin Mikkelsen. No Safe Place: Toxic Waste, Leukemia and Community Action, 2nd ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
Pellow, David. N., and Lisa Sun-Hee Park. The Silicon Valley of Dreams: Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-tech Global Economy. New York: New York University Press, 2002.
Videos
Zuckerman, Francine, and Martha Butterfield. Exposure: Environmental Links to Breast Cancer (video). Toronto: Women's Network on Health and the Environment, 2001.
Livingston, N. Toxic Partners (video). Mabou, NS: Black River Productions, 1999.
Other Materials
The course materials also include a study guide, student manual and a reading file.
Athabasca University reserves the right to amend course outlines occasionally and without notice. Courses offered by other delivery methods may vary from their individualized-study counterparts.
Opened in Revision 1, Dec 23, 2005.
Last updated by SAS 02/13/2013 10:18:57
