Course Descriptions—Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences

EOHS 400 - Principles of Environmental Health Sciences (3 sh)

Environmental influences on health: population, food, energy; community hygiene and injury control; solid/hazardous wastes, air and water pollution, radiation; industrial hygiene and occupational health. Prerequisite: Enrollment restricted to public health students; other graduate and professional students admitted by consent as space permits. To obtain consent, see the SPH registrar.

EOHS 405 - Environmental Calculations (2 sh)

Problem solving techniques as applied to environmental and occupational health: dimensional analysis, mass and energy balances, trial and error solutions, numerical and graphical techniques. Prerequisites: None.

EOHS 408 - Biological, Chemical, Explosives, and Nuclear Weapons as Public Health Threats (3 sh)

Same as EPID 408. This course addresses preparation, understanding of threats, and rescue & response issues pertaining to potential terrorist incidents from a public health perspective. Prerequisites: Graduate or professional standing; or consent of the instructor.

EOHS 411 - Water Quality Management (4 sh)

Water pollution; historical and current developments in problems and solutions: characterization, water purification, waste treatment, modeling, standards and criteria, public health concerns.

EOHS 418 - Analysis of Water and Wastewater Quality (2 sh)

Basic instrumentation and procedures related to measurement and surveillance of various water quality parameters. Prerequisites: None.

EOHS 421 - Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene (2 sh)

Recognition, evaluation, and control of chemical, biological, and physical agents in the workplace. Application to preliminary surveys, measurement of exposure, and evaluation of control measures. Prerequisite: EOHS 400 or consent of the instructor.

EOHS 424 - Environmental Acoustics (2 sh)

Fundamentals of noise generation/propagation; filtering; weighting; hearing biomechanics; health effects; audiometry; hearing control methods; sound fields; directivity; diffraction/barriers; regulations; instrumentation; control. Prerequisite: General college physics and ordinary calculus, or consent of the instructor.

EOHS 428 - Industrial Hygiene Laboratory I (2 sh)

Detailed methods and experiments for measuring chemical, biological, and physical agents; and methods for evaluating the effectiveness of control measures. Prerequisites: EOHS 400, 405 and 421, or consent of the instructor.

EOHS 431 - Air Quality Management I (3 sh)

Same as CEMM 419. Sources, control, dispersion, and effects upon receptors of air pollution: health and other adverse effects, meteorology and dispersion estimation, photochemistry, aerosol characterization. Prerequisite: EOHS 405 or CEMM 216 or consent of the instructor.

EOHS 438 - Air Quality Laboratory (2 sh)

Basic instrumentation and procedures related to measurement and surveillance of ambient air quality. Methods for collection and identification of gaseous and particulate pollutants. Prerequisite: EOHS 405 or consent of the instructor.

EOHS 440 - Chemistry for Environmental Professionals (3 sh)

Same as CEMM 411. Introductory atmospheric chemistry, aspects of air pollution, chemistry related to natural water and water treatment; priority organic pollutants and heavy metals. Prerequisite: One year of college chemistry.

EOHS 441 – Ergonomics and Human Factors (4 sh)

Same as IE 441.  The study of principles and techniques associated with ergonomic problems. Topics include human information input and processing, human output and control, and ergonomic considerations in safety. Prerequisites:Credit or concurrent registration in IE 342; or consent of the instructor.

EOHS 450 - Principles of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (2 sh)

Causes, transmission, control, and prevention of the physical/chemical environmental stressors in the work environment; industrial processes and hazards, contrasts between developed and developing countries.

EOHS 455 - Environmental and Occupational Toxicology (3 sh)

General and applied toxicology as it relates to environmental and occupational exposures to hazardous agents. Emphasis on basic principles, specific types of toxicity, and major classes of toxic agents.

EOHS 460 – Safety Engineering (4 sh)

Same as IE 461.  Human protection systems; accident and emergency handling; manufacturing and service hazard systems
Prerequisites:  IE 342; or consent of the instructor.

EOHS 461 - Community Health and Consumer Protection (2 sh)

Prevention of health hazards due to infectious and chemical agents and physical processes, especially in the home and small community environments; role of health agencies. Prerequisite: EOHS 400 or consent of the instructor.

EOHS 463 - Safety Management Systems (2 sh)

Introduction to practical aspects of initiating a safety program in a moderately sized production plant.  Prerequisites:  Consent of the instructor.

EOHS 472 - Management of Solid and Hazardous Wastes (3 sh)

Same as CEMM 423 and GEOG 444. Management of solid and hazardous waste, including radioactive waste: landfills, incineration, recycling, composting, source reduction, groundwater and air pollution impacts, control, regulations, siting, health impacts.

EOHS 474 - Topics in Resource Management and Policy (4 sh)

Same as GEOG 441. May be repeated for a maximum of 6 hours of credit. Selected topics dealing with environmental problems at local, regional, or global levels. Topics vary. Prerequisite: GEOG 341 or 361 or consent of the instructor.

EOHS 482 - Occupational Safety Science (2 sh)

Principles of occupational safety, safety regulations, accident investigation procedures and engineering, behavioral and administrative techniques for occupational accident control. Prerequisite: EOHS 421 or consent of the instructor.

EOHS 495 - Environmental/Occupational Health Seminar (1 sh)

Discussions of current environmental health and occupational health topics, with presentations by students, faculty members, and visiting scientists.

EOHS 512 - Advanced Water Quality Management Topics (4 sh)

Water quality management course examining drinking water quality and contaminant discharge topics. Risk assessment methodologies are applied for deriving optimal decisions. Prerequisite: EOHS 411; or consent of the instructor.

EOHS 521 - Aerosol Science and Technology (3 sh)

Advanced technical skills and theory of aerosol physics required for characterizing aerosol behavior, fate and transport, and measurement considerations in occupational/environmental settings. Prerequisites: EOHS 421 and EOHS 428; or consent of the instructor.

EOHS 523 - Engineering Controls/Ventilation (4 sh)

Design/evaluation of engineering control technology for workplace hazards: process modification, industrial ventilation, air cleaning, shielding, toxic air contaminants, mechanical hazards, (non)ionizing radiation, temperature. Prerequisites: EOHS 405, 421 and 428, or consent of the instructor.

EOHS 529 - Industrial Hygiene Laboratory II (2 sh)

Field work: comprehensive industrial hygiene surveys of local workplaces. Health hazard analysis, design of sampling strategies, collection of field data, report preparation. Prerequisites: EOHS 428 and 438, or consent of the instructor.

EOHS 532 - Air Quality Management II (2 sh)

Same as CEMM 526. Air quality management: integration of diverse aspects. Data interpretation; standards setting; policy implementation; equipment design; hazardous spill modeling; indoor air pollution; case studies. Prerequisite: EOHS 431.

EOHS 542 - Water Chemistry (4 sh)

Chemical equilibria and kinetic principles as applied to processes occurring in natural and engineered water systems. Prerequisite: EOHS 440 (Chemistry for Environmental Professionals).

EOHS 543 - Environmental Organic Chemistry (4 sh)

Properties and behavior of environmental organic pollutants. Theory and estimation techniques. Concepts of environmental fate assessment. Applications of fate models. Prerequisite: EOHS 440.

EOHS 551 - Occupational Diseases (4 sh)

Diseases caused by physical, chemical, and biological agents in the workplace: toxicology, epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, high-risk populations, early detection.

EOHS 553 – Global Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences (2 sh)

Examines the major current issues in occupational and environmental health and their policy solutions.  Prerequisites:  EOHS 400; or consent of the instructor.

EOHS 554 - Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology (2 sh)

Same as EPID 554. Methods and issues of environmental epidemiology: outbreak, cluster-analysis, cross-sectional, case-control, cohort, ecological, and time series designs; contemporary issues: cancer and reproductive hazards. Prerequisites: EPID 401, BSTT 401, and EOHS 400, or consent of the instructor.

EOHS 555 - Advanced Topics in Toxicology (3 sh)

An in-depth consideration of biotransformation, toxicokinetic modeling, biomarkers, and chemical carcinogenesis. The course is based on articles from the primary literature. Molecular through physiological level effects are considered. Prerequisite: Grade of B or better in EOHS 455; or consent of the instructor.

EOHS 556 - Risk Assessment in Environmental and Occupational Health (3 sh)

Methodologies for utilizing toxicological and epidemiological data to estimate health risks due to exposures to pollutants in environments. Prerequisites: EOHS 405, BSTT 401, and EPID 400, or consent of the instructor.

EOHS 557 - Design and Analysis of Experiments (4 sh)

Detailed consideration of the mathematical, statistical and practical aspects of design and analysis of experiments that are encountered in physicochemical, biological and engineering investigations. Extensive computer use required. Prerequisite: Consent of the instructor. Completion of one course in statistics, working knowledge of at least one statistical software (SAS, Design Expert, Minitab, etc.).

EOHS 564 - Geographic Information System Application in Public Health (3 sh)

Same as HPA 564. This is an on-line course. Examination of GIS applications in public health and the process of designing a GIS-based public health investigation. Prerequisites: BSTT 400 and HPA 465; and graduate or professional standing; and consent of the instructor.

EOHS 565 - Datamining Applications in Public Health (3 sh)

Same as HPA 565. This course presents the key public health information system sources, describes the process of datamining and introduces the student to a sample of datamining techniques. Prerequisites: BSTT 400; and graduate or professional standing.

EOHS 570 - Hazardous Materials Management (3 sh)

Definition and application of methods for managing hazardous materials: site health and safety plan development; remediation technique evaluations; incinerator design; computerized hazard response program applications. Prerequisites: EOHS 405, 421, and 428, or consent of the instructor.

EOHS 571 – Inquiry Epidemiology and Prevention (3 sh)

Covers general principles of injury epidemiology and intervention research and will engage students in development and application of preventive activities in workplaces and in the community.  Prerequisites:  Grade of B or better in EPID 400 or Grade of B or better in EPID 403; and graduate or professional standing; or consent of the instructor.

EOHS 572 - Environmental Risk Assessment and Management (4 sh)

Risk assessment from a public health, quantitative and environmental risk management perspective.

EOHS 584 - Radiation Protection (3 sh)

Radioactivity, energetics, kinetics, interactions, external protection, dosimetry, recommendations and standards, measurement, radon. Prerequisite: EOHS 405 or consent of the instructor.

EOHS 594 - Advanced Special Topics in Environmental Health (1 to 4 sh)

Environmental/occupational topics of current importance to public health: pollution, industrial hygiene, and related topics. Variable course contents arranged to supplement the existing curriculum. Prerequisite: Consent of the instructor.

EOHS 597 - Advanced Laboratory Projects in Environmental Health (1 to 4 sh)

Application and integration of sampling and measurement techniques for characterization of inside and ambient environments. Individuals or groups supervised by EOHS faculty members. Prerequisite: Consent of the instructor.