California State University San Bernardino

Department of Natural Science

NSCI 351: Health and Human Ecology

Winter Quarter 2020

Term Paper

Guidelines

1.

   Identify a Health, Human or Ecological Topic for Analysis.

2.     Describe the topic and how it relates to the Course, Course Concepts and/or principles.

3.     Analyze the Decision-Making Process (Human) or the Environmental (Ecological) application that is used for your topic

    4.     What is the reason for your interest or analysis?

5.     What changes or recommendations should be made?

6.     Would you try to influence your area of interest?

Why or why not? How?

Note: The 6-8 page paper must be typed (12-14 point font), with separate reference (scholarly using MLA, APA or Scientific) and title page.

Thoughts:

1) Term Paper for Health; Water or Air Quality(Indoor), Asthma, Food Safety, Nutrition , GMO’s vs Organic, Obesity, Drugs and addictions

2) Term Paper for Human Ecology; Poverty, Housing, Wastes, Sanitation, Food Security and, Human Hazards (Radiation, and Pesticides); or School Dropouts, Juvenile delinquency and Crime

3) Natural Hazards (Fire, Flood, Freezing, Earthquakes), and Disease epidemiology (Ebola, malaria etc.)

4) Science information/data/research can be used for advocacy of a special interest group, showing differences of expert s, contrasting positions and taking-sides or showing the trade-offs.

How are Impacts or hazards measured or assessed? i.e. cost-benefit analysis, risk assessment, or health/ecological thresholds/indicators.

What are the time frames for decisions? Emergency, Law Enforcement procedures, planning process

Is there an environmental health strategy; Health Education/Promotion, Design with Nature, pollution prevention, or environmental enhancement.

NSCI 351 Booklist

1. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl –Timothy Egan

2. A Fine Balance by

Rohinton Mistry

(India Sterilization-Chapter 2)

3. The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Micheal Pollan (Meat Industry)

4. In Defense of Food by Micheal Pollan (Corn Syrup)

5. The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who’ve Lived the Longest by

Dan Buettner

6. The Good Gut: Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Mood, and Your Long-term Health by Drs.

Justin Sonnenburg

and

Erica Sonnenburg

(Health)

7. Grain Brain by Dr. David Perlmutter

8. Twelve Diseases that Changed the World by Irwin Sherman

9. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond (Civilizations)

10. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

11. Brain Rules by John Medina (Healthy Brain)

12. The Shallow: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr

(Internet reworking our brains)

13. Climate Change: The Facts by Alan Moran and etc. (Not man-made)

14. I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets by

Peter Menzel

,

Faith D’Aluisio

15. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats by Peter Menzel, Faith D’Aluisio

16. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by

Naomi Klein

17. The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls (Homelessness)

18. The Ghost Map by Steve Johnson (Cholera in London)

19. How Not to Die by Michael Gregor (Nutritional Foods)

20. A Framework for Understanding Poverty by Ruby Payne

21. Silent Spring by Rachael Carson

22. When Breath becomes Air by Paul Kalanthi

23. FactFulNess by Hans Rosling

NSCI Movie List

1. Temple Grandin (Livestock Industry)

2. City of God (Brazil Favellas/Shanty Towns)

3. Darwin’s Dilemma (Invasive Species-Lake Victoria)

4. Forks Over Knives (Documentary)

5. Cosmos (Documentary-Episode “The Clean Room”- Lead in Gasoline)

6. Philadelphia (AIDS)

7. The Big Short (Housing)

8. The Soloist (Homelessness)

9. Climate Hustle (Documentary)

10. What the Health(Documentary)-Links between diet and disease

11. What happened to Monday? (Sci-Fi-Pop Control)

12. Soylent Green, (feed people)

13. “Global Waste-Food Waste”-Netflix

14. “A Plastic Ocean” (Documentary)