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MEDS2012: Humans and our Environment
2025 unit information
The ever-changing environment impacts human health and the fate of human evolution. This unit will explore how current advances in medical science are providing solutions to the environmental impacts on human health. Environmental impacts include climate change, new and emerging diseases, toxins, which affect diet, exercise, mental health and new challenges, such as sleep patterns. This unit will take on interdisciplinary approachesto explore these impacts and completion of this unit will ensure you understand successful strategies and approaches to addressing these important challenges in the medical sciences into the future.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Medicine and Health
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Department of Medical Sciences |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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6 credit points of (MEDS1001 or BIOL1XX8) and 6 credit points of (MEDS1002 or BIOL1XX7 or CHEM1X11) |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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None |
| Assumed knowledge:
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None |
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Semester 2 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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