NTRES 4155

Conservation Medicine: A One Health Laboratory

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2024-2025 Catalog.

The program integrates students into the issues and challenges at the core of the preservation of species diversity through direct exposure to risks and mitigation strategies being used to protect the Indonesian Rhino and the African Great Ape. It provides students with general concepts relative to species risk, but also directly engages them in addressing these problems within the necessary cultural and economic context of competing pressures between human and animal populations. As such, through direct engagement, the course represents an immersion in the concept of One Health. This concept of a more holistic approach to medicine that considers animal and environmental, as well as human health is made tangible through exposure to the current threats to the survival of key species.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: NTRES 4150.

Course Attribute (CU-CEL)

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SU

Outcomes

• Students will use basic vocabulary linking the One Health disciplines to explore the history of conservation and human impacts on the earth.
• Students will be able to articulate basic principles associated with each of the three components of "One Health": environmental health, animal health, human health – and identify their intersections and interactions with art and culture, the humanities, government and policy and the social sciences.
• Students will synthesize, reflect on, and think critically about the ways in which ecological and social dimensions relate to One Health.
• Students will be able to demonstrate the impact of language, art, history and governance on conservation and communities.
• Students will be able to integrate and apply concepts across disciplines to explore and develop strategies to support conservation and communities.
• Students will be able to reflect on and analyze their own biases and belief systems to develop a foundation for meaningful engaged learning.
• Upon completion of this course, students will be able to collaborate effectively in a team across disciplines to analyze real-world challenges and propose comprehensive solutions using concepts learned in class.

Distribution Category (OPHLS-AG)

When Offered Summer.

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