BIOL 302 - Environmental Toxicology

Credits: (4)
A discussion of drugs, pollutants, and poisons, the chemicals that affect living systems. Students will study such chemical effects at organismal and ecosystem scales, as well as the mechanisms of exposure and metabolism of biologically active chemicals. Bioremediation and policy strategies to limit exposure will also be discussed. Topics include pharmacology (study of medicines), physiology of toxicant effects and detoxification, and ecotoxicology (the behavior of toxicants in the environment). This course fulfills the Organismal area requirement in the Biology major and the Biology elective requirement in the Pre-Nursing and Pre-Occupational Therapy tracks of the Health Sciences major. Lecture and lab. Students must earn a C- or higher in all prerequisite courses. Prerequisite(s): BIOL 110, BIOL 111, CHEM 101 and either CHEM 102 or CHEM 150 (CHEM 102 or CHEM 150 can be taken concurrently). Spring, even years.