The Environmental Health Sciences concentration is designed to prepare students for positions with local, national and International Public Health/Environmental Health agencies and industry. They will be able to develop environmental health initiatives and enforce existing regulations In addition, graduates of this program will be eligible to enter programs in the health professions, including medicine, dentistry, optometry, osteopathy, podiatry, and veterinary medicine and will also be qualified to sit for national certification which will enhance their advancement and employment opportunities.
This concentration will emphasize recognition, evaluation, and control of environmental health problems. This includes application of basic environmental health principles to problem solving; use of laboratory and quantitative methods to generate and evaluate environmental health data; and use of computer technology to calculate, analyze and display data.
Typical Course Sequencing
Freshman Year |
Fall |
14 hours |
|
SPHU101
|
Epidemics, Revolutions and Response: An Introduction
to Public Health
|
3 |
ENGL101 |
English Writing |
4 |
CHEM107 |
General Chemistry |
3 |
CHEM117 |
Chemistry Lab |
1 |
CELL101 |
General Biology |
3 |
Freshman Year
|
Spring |
14 hours |
|
SPHU102
|
The Cell, The Individual, and The Community |
3 |
CELL211 |
General Biology Lab |
1 |
CHEM108 |
General Chemistry |
3 |
CHEM118 |
General Chemistry Lab II |
1 |
COMM351 |
Environmental Communication |
3 |
|
Humanities or Social Science Distribution*
|
3 |
Sophomore Year
|
Fall |
14 hours |
MATH115 |
Introduction to Calculus or Math 121
|
3 |
CHEM241 |
Organic Chemistry |
3 |
CHEM243 |
Organic Chemistry Lab I |
1 |
|
SPHU201
|
Disease Ecology and Public Health Concepts
|
3 |
|
Foreign Language Requirement
|
4 |
Sophomore Year
|
Spring |
18 hours |
|
SPHU202
|
Genetics and Human Health with Lab |
4 |
MATH116 |
Introduction to Calculus |
3 |
CHEM242 |
Organic Chemistry II |
3 |
CHEM244 |
Organic Chemistry Lab |
1 |
|
Humanities or Social Science Distribution |
3 |
|
Foreign Language Requirement
|
4 |
Junior Year |
Fall
|
17 hours |
|
SPHU301
|
Public Health Systems Design and Decision Analysis
|
3 |
PHYS121 |
General Physics with Lab |
4 |
|
Humanities or Social Science Distribution
|
6 |
|
Foreign Language Requirement
|
4 |
Junior Year |
Spring
|
15 hours |
|
SPHU302
|
Knowledge and Information in the
Practice of Public Health |
3 |
|
SPHU304/ENHS603
|
Survey of Environmental Health |
3 |
|
SPHU306/HSMG603
|
Principles of Health Systems Admin. And Mngt. |
3 |
PHYS122 |
General Physics with Lab |
4 |
CVEN436 |
Meteorology and Air Pollution |
3 |
Senior Year
|
Fall |
18 hours |
|
SPHU401
|
Foundation and Formulation of Public Health Polic |
3 |
|
SPHU403/BIOS603
|
Introductory Biostatistics |
3 |
|
SPHU405/EPID603
|
Epidemiology Methods |
3 |
|
SPHU422
|
Food Safety and Related Sanitary Codes |
3 |
|
SPHU424
|
Introduction to Environmental Toxicology |
3 |
|
SPHU426
|
Biological and Chemical Terrorism Prevention |
3 |
|
Senior Year
|
Spring
|
15 hours
|
|
SPHU402/603
|
Social and Behavioral Aspects of Global Health
|
3
|
|
SPHU406
|
Senior Seminar or
|
|
|
SPHU408
|
Internship
|
|
|
SPHU421
|
Health and Environment Risk Assessment
|
3
|
|
SPHU423
|
Environmental Health Sciences in the Workplace
|
3
|
|
SPHU425
|
Water and Sustainable Resource Management
|
3
|
|
SPHU427
|
Ethics and Environmental Health
|
3
|
*Social Sciences - select 2 of the following 4 course options:
PSYC101 |
Introductory Psychology |
3 |
SOCI 101 |
Introductory Sociology |
3 |
ECON101 |
Introductory Microeconomics |
3 |
ECON103 |
Honors Introductory Microeconomics |
4 |
Total - 125 hours
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