Core Courses

 

Agron/Tox/VDPAM 570. Risk Assessment for Food, Agriculture, and Veterinary Medicine. Cr. 3. Prereq: Stat 104 or consent of instructors. Wolt, Hurd. Risk assessment principles as applied to biological systems. Exposure and effects characterization in human and animal health and ecological risk assessment. Risk analysis frameworks and regulatory decision-making. Introduction to quantitative methods for risk assessment using epidemiological and distributional analyses. Uncertainty analysis. 570 Syllabus

 

Proposed: 4xxxx. Risk Analysis for Food and Feed Production. Cr. 3. Hurd , Wolt, Jensen. The course will provide an overview of all facets of risk analysis (assessment, management, communication, perception) and the use of risk analysis in policy formulation.

 

JI MC 560x. Risk Perception and Communication. Cr. 3. Rodriguez. This course is expected to inform scientists of ways by which they can become active contributors to the public understanding and knowledge of risks, and how they can help cultivate a public informed enough to make wise and respectful choices about issues with critical scientific and ethical underpinnings. 560x Syllabus

 

VDPAM/Econ366x & VDPAM/Agron 566x. Science, Policy, and Food. Cr. 3. Prereq: Junior/senior undergraduate classification for Econ 366x, Graduate classification or permission of instructor for VDPAM 366x/566x and Agron 566x. The role of science in food policy development and implementation. Use of case studies to illustrate core concepts such as methods of synthesizing primary research data and economic methods of policy evaluation. 566x Syllabus