About This Course

Content Emphasis. CI 692J focuses on the impact of the built environment on public health. The
specific emphasis is on how “sprawl” development impacts air and water quality, physical activity
opportunities/levels and related chronic disease, traffic injuries, the human “ecological foot print,” and so
on. Smart Growth alternatives are explored, including the role of schools.

Course Text: Frumkin, H., Frank, L., & Jackson, R. (2004). Urban Sprawl and Public
Health. Washington, D.C.: Island Press. (Provided at Fall Workshop.)

All other readings are on-line and may include articles from:

• Active Living Research
• American Scientist
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Environmental Health Perspectives
• Environmental Protection Agency
• Institute of Medicine
• President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports
• Sustainable Communities/Smart Growth

WVU Library Resources

The WVU Libraries provides a host of electronic resources for students. Take some time to peruse the library home page and links therein, such as "reference on-line." Some assignments in this course require you to use the WVU libraries on-line databases. If you are not familiar with the database search procedure, please study the Database Search document.

WVU Library Distance Education . Service If you reside outside of a 50-mile radius of WVU, you are eligible to use the Distance Education services. Through this service, you can obtain free up to 30 hard copies of journal articles to which the library subscribes (but which you cannot access electronically). Visit the above site to learn the services/resources available to you.

This course also utilizes other informational databases, which are listed under the Bibliography in the Syllabus.

 

 

Last Updated on August 30, 2005, by Jim Rye.