Health, environment and global changes

  • ECTS

    4 credits

  • Component

    Faculty of Science

Description

The major human and animal health issues related to global change, i.e. :

  • the degradation of natural environments, leading to the loss of quality of natural resources (various pollutions) and the loss of biodiversity
  • climate change
  • the artificialization of living environments
  • new therapeutic methods
  • the globalization of trade
  • the standardization of lifestyles
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Necessary pre-requisites

- L, L2, and L3 S5 majors including microbiology

- Eukaryotic parasites" (L2 S4) welcome but not required

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This opening course is quite complementary to the "Parasite Adaptations" course, and offers a possible thematic extension

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Knowledge control

test

coefficient

Nb of hours

Nb Sessions

Organization (SDS or local)

Written

 

 

 

 

Continuous control

1

 

 

local

TP

 

 

 

 

Oral

 

 

 

 

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Additional information

The CCs will be in the form of :

- two simple evaluations (fill-in-the-blank questions, MCQs) of basic concepts

- a summary evaluation on a table at the end of the module

Person(s) in charge : Catherine Moulia/ Laurent Gavotte / Estelle Bilak

Contact details of the person(s) responsible (tel/email) :

catherine.moulia@umontpellier.fr / laurent.gavotte@umontpellier.fr/ estelle.bilak@umontpellier.fr

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Targeted competencies

- A 6 - Know the applications of organism biology, evolutionary biology and ecology (health, agronomy, conservation, restoration)

-B 14- Know the main applications of evolutionary biology (health, agronomy, conservation, restoration)

-C 7- Know the impact of stress and natural and anthropogenic disturbances on biodiversity (from the organism to the biosphere)/ C8- Know the main applications of ecology (health, agronomy, conservation, restoration)

- H1 Know the process of knowledge construction in different disciplines (hypotheses, experimental results, polemical results, mathematical theorems, scientific facts)

- G English

- I Know how to do

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