Healthy Community Design and Development

Course Description

This course seeks to bridge the gap between planning and public health, providing an interdisciplinary approach to address the health implications of the built environment. Students will understand public health and planning history, evolution and significant movements to the present, and historical and current theories on the relationship between the built environment and public health. They will identify contemporary features of the built environment such as patterns of development, parks, public works projects, houses, and transportation systems that reflect past efforts to influence health, and use methods developed by architects, urban planners, public health professionals, sociologists and anthropologists to address current health impacts of the built environment. Students learn about vulnerable populations and health disparities, and develop skills to identify studies and engage communities, critique methods and findings, and apply lessons from planning and public health research to current and future problems.

Code

CDEV 3155

Credits

3

Subject

CDEV

Programs That Include This Course

• Bachelor's Bachelor of Science in Community Development
• Bachelor's Bachelor of Science in Public Health
• Minor Minor in Community Development
• Undergraduate Certificate Undergraduate Certificate in Environmental Sustainability