Public Health 333 - Environmental Poisons
Spring
2025
01
3.00
Sasha Adkins
TU TH 2:30PM 3:45PM
UMass Amherst
51693
Holdsworth Hall room 308
tadkins@umass.edu
51452
This course provides an introduction to the field of toxicology, the science of poisons. Through a combination of lectures, guest speakers, discussions of case studies, and class exercises, students will learn the fundamental concepts of toxicology, the health effects of different classes of toxicants and toxins, and the application of toxicology is such as forensic toxicology and risk assessment.
Open to PUBHLTH and ENVIRSCI students. PUBHLTH 203 and BIOLOGY 151/52 Environmental Science majors should enroll under ENVIRSCI 333
This course has 25 seats for EnvirSci majors and 17 for PubHlth majors.