Learning outcomes

The course aims to provide students with a common and transdisciplinary background (reflecting Namur’s expertise) in understanding the challenges of sustainable development and transition, with "care for living beings" as a guiding principle. In particular, it familiarizes and raises students' awareness of animal health, public health and environmental health issues.

Goals

By the end of this course, students will have developed cross-disciplinary knowledge of the causes and consequences of the "environment-health" link, the interdependence between the health of the living world and human societies. They will have identified the semantic differences between common terms depending on the context in which they are used and the disciplines explored.

Content

Students attend 15 hours of video-recorded lectures available on the course website. The topics covered are listed in the ‘Table of Contents’ tab.

depending on the context in which they are used.

Table of contents

For example, the 15 hours of remote video lessons could cover the following topics:

- Intro: Defining the concept of One Health and positioning it within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

- General panorama: planetary boundaries and the donut economy, Anthropocene and global change, resource exhaustion and technological rise, legal norms, deep ecology and livability, environmental democracy, etc.

- Ecology: ecosystems, biodiversity crisis, etc.

- Veterinary medicine: zoonoses, health crises, vaccination, animal husbandry, etc.

-  Human medicine: impact of healthcare on the environment and of environmental degradation on health, public health, medicine in crisis situations, etc.

-  Laboratory – infrastructure 

-  Environmental impact of medicines

-  Bioethics: historical origins, sociological evolution of dignity (human > living), ethical issues relating to the beginning and end of life, etc.

- Legislation: medical ethics and the environment, temperatures and labour law, etc.

- Political science and health: climate wars, migration, emerging and re-emerging diseases, etc.

Exercices

Nothing.

Teaching methods

Courses take the form of videos to be watched at home, independently. These videos are available on an interactive platform. Where appropriate, experience-based activities may be offered on a voluntary basis.

Assessment method

At the end of each course, students will find an online assessment questionnaire on Webcampus. They must answer the questions and obtain a score of 80%. They may retake the questionnaire as many times as they wish until they obtain the required score.

Sources, references and any support material

As the topics themselves, and their interconnections, are constantly evolving, innovative resources are made available to students throughout the year by lecturers on the webcampus course website.

Language of instruction

French