Lecture 1 - Introduction
See Lecture Schedule for
Delivery Date
Instructions for all Lectures
- Attendance
All enrolled students will be accessing the course on-line.
Formally enrolled off-campus and
on-campus students can access streaming lecture video
or podcasts with interactive classroom tools.
- Lecture Materials
Choose either the Slides or PDF Notes. While viewing
slides choose the Video or Audio lecture.
Note: Choose the Video if you have fast internet connection. Choose the Audio if you have a standard modem
internet connection.
- Group Social Learning
Registered students have the option to participate social learning session that will use Second Life
(free) and Skype (free) for voice interaction. Participation
will require a computer with mic and speakers (headset
preferred), and a reasonably robust internet connection.
- Resources
Read the lecture learning objectives, complete the advanced
reading, and review the resources found lower on the page.
- Homework
Under lecture activities, complete any Homework that has
been assigned for that lecture.
- Discussion
Participate in the intracourse discussion by answer
questions posted and posting your own questions.
Learning Objectives
- Examine the context and content of this course.
- Examine perception vs. reality.
- Understand that "chemicals" are all around us.
- Define environmental toxicology
- Describe the prehistory and history of toxicology.
- Distinguish descriptive, mechanistic, and regulatory
disciplines of toxicology.
- Recognize the multidisciplinary approaches to
environmental toxicology.
- Summarize the relevance of environmental toxicology to
the human species.
Advance Reading
- Review the course Web site.
- Review the table of contents of the course text.
- Richards, pp 3-10; pp 271-278; pp 393-399.
Resources
Keywords
- Antidotes
- Atmosphere
- Biosphere
- Cells
- Clinical toxicology
- Descriptive toxicology
- Ebers papyrus
- Ecosystem
- Environmental Toxicology
- Forensic toxicology
- Hazardous waste
- Hydrosphere
- Industrial toxicology
- Infinite dilution
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- Lithosphere
- Macromolecules
- Mechanistic toxicology
- Molecules
- Morbidity
- Mortality
- Orfila
- Organ system
- Organelles
- Organs
- Paracelsus
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