This course fit into my concentration as my goal was to learn about chemistry from an environmental stand-point. The course supplemented the chemistry courses I took by covering the organic and inorganic​​​​​​ pollutants present in the environment, ranging from PCPs to mercury. The human health effects as a result of these pollutant's release into the environment were the main focus of this course, and we studied the social, as well as the scientific, aspects of environmental health issues. This course was invaluable to my education in that it connected the organic chemistry courses I had taken, to the sector of environmental health, by relating that which I had learned in each of these classes separately. One of the best aspects of the course involved a research paper each student wrote on a topic of their choice. I chose the health implications, as well as the history and bio-chemistry, behind the usage of growth hormones in dairy cows. I spent a great deal of time in Cornell University's agricultural library researching the information for this paper, and I enjoyed writing it immensely as I learned quite a lot. By coincidence, I was consecutively working on a research project for the course History of Environmental Thought, on the history of dairy farming in Tompkins County. I actually had the opportunity to visit the dairy farm that held one of a few experimental herds for the bovine growth hormone in Lansing, NY. This is just one of many examples of the interdisciplinary learning I encountered as an Environmental Science major at Ithaca College.