Water and Global Human Health provided by edX is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 24 weeks long, 12-15 hours a week. Water and Global Human Health is taught by Geoffrey Hall. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from edX. The course is taught in Englishand is $960.00. Visit the course page at edX for detailed price information.
24 weeks long, 12-15 hours a week
26th, Oct 2022
Queen’s University is home to the Beaty Water Research Centre. Equipped with 58 faculty members from 11 departments, the Centre brings together world-class researchers to tackle our most important resource on this planet, water. Start today with this Micromasters program in Water and Global Human Health and unlock advanced standing to future graduate diplomas and master’s degrees at Queen’s.
Courses under this program:
Course 1: Water on Earth: An Introduction
This course covers the flow of water as it falls to the earth and travels towards rivers, lakes and oceans.
This course focuses on watershed systems and their influences on water movement and water quality. This includes the implications of agriculture and urbanization on water movement and quality within a watershed.
This course brings together the different aspects of the hydrologic cycle and introduces several common watershed modelling techniques for water resource management.
Water plays a critical role in our daily lives. This course is an introduction to human health at the individual and population level.
Humans are vast users of water. From large-scale agriculture to individual domestic use, water resources are being consumed at a tremendous rate. This course investigates the use of water by humans across the globe.
This course will investigate a number of solutions and interventions to water-related human health impacts.
