Courses

This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.

Core concepts of Indigenous-specific racism and human rights, cultural safety and how this relates to the practice of health administrators. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.

Application of priority setting and resource allocation methods to improve health from the perspective of the policy maker, health professional, and patient. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.

Ethical dilemmas in the health care setting. Understanding how Ethical features of the system may contribute to or perpetuate some of these problems. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.

The idea of "population health," and the implementation and evaluation of programs or policies to improve health. Open to all students. [3-0-0]

Improving public health by developing the skills to design and deliver pragmatic, effective health behavior change interventions.

Methods and application of decision analysis to improve health from the perspective of the policy maker, health professional, and patient. Prerequisite: Either (a) SPPH 400 or (b) SPPH 521; and SPPH 502.

Role of air, water, food and solid waste as sources of human health risks; global environmental health issues; sustainability. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.

Mechanism of action of commonly encountered occupational toxic agents; relevance of laboratory and epidemiological evidence. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.

Experience of colonization; Indian Act; the histories and intergenerational impact of the residential school; child-welfare systems; communicable disease prevention; the challenge of ethical public health practice; and traditional healing. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.

Resource allocation, economics and ethics based approaches for decision making, uptake of evidence to inform resource use in health care. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.

Recommended: SPPH 567 or an equivalent statistics or quantitative course is recommended. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading. Prerequisite: All of SPPH 502, SPPH 535. Corequisite: SPPH 522.

Examines response to humanitarian disasters. Includes case models of surgical care responses and strategies to move from relief to recovery.

A course dealing with women's involvement in and contribution to various aspects of Theatre and/or Film Topics will change from year to year. Credit will be granted for only one of THTR_V 443 or THTR_V 415.

Overview of urban forest resources: structure and composition, extent, and ecosystem services and benefits provided; introduces methods and tools for urban forest inventory, monitoring, and assessment, and how they are integrated into the planning and management of urban forests. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.

Theory, concepts and applications of urban green equity and urban environmental justice with particular focus on implications for urban forest policy, planning, management, and design. [3-0-1] Prerequisite: Third-year standing.

The administrative, legal, policy, and business environments for urban forestry governance, management, and planning. [3-1-0] Prerequisite: UFOR 300. And third year standing.

Urban centres can be designed and managed to contribute to biodiversity conservation commitments. Topics include designing human-dominated landscapes to promote biodiversity, the tools required, assessing outcomes, and the benefits and negatives of nature in the city. Prerequisite: One of FRST 201, NRES 201, BIOL 230. or permission of the instructor.

Application of urban forestry concepts to strategic urban forest planning and management. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading. Prerequisite: All of UFOR 500, UFOR 511, UFOR 512.

The role of cities in development and global capital circulation, and urban politics with emphasis on regions in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Credit will be granted for only one of GEOG 352 or URST 352. Equivalency: GEOG 352

Historical, legal, and quantitative analysis of urban research. Emphasis on spatial, racial, and political dynamics of urban inequality. Credit will be granted for only one of URST 450 or GEOG 450. Restricted to students with fourth-year standing or higher. Equivalency: GEOG 450

General frameworks for infrastructure management, system-specific asset management (road conditions, pipe inspection), maintenance and renewal. Data, metrics, indicators and assessment: data sources, performance indicators, assessment, assessing condition and sustainability, multi-objective, multi-criteria decision making, performance prediction, lifecycle cost analysis (LCA), sustainability. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.

Sexual development, transgender medicine, reproduction and pregnancy, chronic and acute diseases, and social determinants of health. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.

Critical technologies and standards used to construct sustainable and contemporary timber products and buildings, including: Sustainable timber products and systems, Low-carbon timber products and buildings and building LCA, 3D design for timber products and buildings, and digital technologies for timber-built sustainability. Prerequisites: Third-year standing