ENV S120A

Uses case studies, such as the poisoning at Minamata, Japan, to introduce the various fields of toxicology (eco-, environmental, biomedical, and epidemiology) and basic toxicological principles such as metal and radiation toxicities, transformations, cycling, and transport of metals and radioisotopes in the environment, toxins vs toxicants, routes of exposure, absorption, distribution, target organs, dose, metabolism, sequestration, and excretion, as well as destruction due to atomic bomb blast (Hiroshima) vs. fission reactor explosion (Chernobyl and Fukushima), mutagenicity, and carcinogenicity.

One course in introductory statistics.

Course not open to students who completed Environmental Studies 120.