Curriculum

Specialty Tracks Learn more about our specialty tracks

The Environmental Health graduate programs are organized into three teaching cores. Students take a required course in each area: environmental exposures, health effects, and environmental health policy.

Both the M.P.H and M.S. programs require a minimum of 30 credits and normally take two years to complete.

Credits are listed in ( ).

Environmental Health Coursework
PubH 6103    Exposure to Environmental Hazards (2)
PubH 6104    Environmental Health Effects: Introduction to Toxicology (2)
PubH 6105    Environmental and Occupational Health Policy (2)
PubH 7194    Master's Project (3-5) (S-N grade basis only)

Epidemiology Coursework
PubH 6320    Fundamentals of Epidemiology (3) OR
PubH 6330    Epidemiology I (4)

Biostatistics Courseswork
PubH 6414    Biostatistical Methods I (3) OR
PubH 6450    Biostatistics I (4)

Ethics Coursework
PubH 6741    Ethics in Public Health: Professional Practice and Policy (1) OR
PubH 6742    Ethics in Public Health: Research and Policy (1)

Specialty Requirements
Additional required and elective courses are determined by area of study within the Environmental Health major. Students may elect a general program in environmental and occupational health, or focus in one of the following specialty areas:

• Environmental Chemistry (MS only)
• Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
• Environmental Health Policy
• Environmental Infectious Diseases
• Environmental Toxicology
• Industrial Hygiene
• Occupational Health Nursing
• Occupational Medicine (Occupational medicine residents only)

Required coursework for the EH major, specialty requirements, and electives will allow students to tailor programs to match their interests. In addition, MS degree students may designate a minor field to complement the environmental health major.

Additional Requirements for the MPH Program:
PubH 6020    Fundamentals of Social and Behavioral Science (3)

PubH 6751    Principles of Management in Health Services Organizations (2) OR
PubH 6752    Public Health Management (3)

PubH 7196    Field Experience (3-5)

Additional Requirement for the MS Program:
PubH 8777    Thesis (10)

Additional Requirements for the PhD Program
PubH 8888    Dissertation (24)

PhD students may pursue one of three training programs:

• Molecular basis of risk assessment, which provides trans-disciplinary training in exposure, modern toxicology, epidemiology, and environmental policy that is required to develop sound health risk assessment approaches.
• Occupational health services research and policy, which is a joint offering by the Divisions of Environmental and Occupational Health and Health Services Research and Policy. EOH students receive a minor in health services research, policy and administration.
• Occupational injury prevention research training, which incorporates advanced training through curriculum and trainee research opportunities that involve multidisciplinary collaborations with experts in occupations injury epidemiology, engineering and human factors/ergonomics, safety, medicine, and the social sciences including occupational psychology.