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UIC School of Public Health Student Handbook 2008-2009

LEARNING OBJECTIVES FOR EOHS

To print the curricular table for the EOHS PhD, please download here(pdf)

PhD Curriculum

TOTAL Credit Hours = minimum of 96 semester credit hours (SH)

http://www.uic.edu/sph/eohs.htm

School-Wide

Core

Requirements

· EPID 403 Introduction to Epidemiology: Principles and Methods (3 SH)

· BSTT 400 Biostatistics I (4 SH)

· BSTT 401 Biostatistics II (4 SH)

Required Non-Credit Training:
(http://tigger.uic.edu/depts/ovcr/research/protocolreview/irb/
education/initial.shtml)

· HIPAA Research 101 (non-credit)

· Investigator Training 101 (non-credit)

Dissertation Research Requirements:

· IPHS 599 PhD Dissertation Research (minimum 32 SH)

Divisional

Core

Requirements

· EOHS 405 Environmental Calculations (2 SH)

· EOHS 557 Design and Analysis of Experiments (4 SH)

All students are required to take a minimum of 12 semester credit hours in EOHS courses; choosing at least one course in each of the following three areas:

Exposure Assessment and Measurement

Health Assessment

Intervention Strategies

· EOHS 440 Chemistry for Environmental Professionals (3 SH)

· EOHS 421 Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene (2 SH)

· EOHS 418 Analysis of Water and Wastewater Quality (2 SH)

· EOHS 428 Industrial Hygiene Laboratory I (2 SH)

· EOHS 438 Air Quality Laboratory (2 SH)

· EOHS 542 Water Chemistry (4 SH)

· EOHS 543 Environmental Organic Chemistry (4 SH)

· EOHS 564 Geographic Information System Applications in Public Health (3 SH)

· EOHS 565 Datamining Public Health (3 SH)

· EOHS 450 Principles of Occupational/Environmental Medicine (2 SH)

· EOHS 455 Environmental and Occupational Toxicology (3 SH)

· EOHS 495 Environmental /Occupational Health Seminar (1 SH)

· EOHS 554 Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology (2 SH)

· EOHS 555 Advanced Toxicology ( 3 SH)

· EOHS 571 Injury Epidemiology and Prevention (3 SH)

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

· EOHS 411 Water Quality Management I (4 SH)

· EOHS 431 Air Quality Management I (3 SH)

· EOHS 461 Community Health and Consumer Protection (2 SH)

· EOHS 463 Safety Management Systems (2 SH)

· EOHS 482 Occupational Safety Science (2 SH)

· EOHS 556 Risk Assessment in Environmental and Occupational Health (3 SH)

· EOHS 572 Environmental Risk Assessment and Management (4 SH)

SUB-TOTAL: 18 semester credit hours

Electives

Students must complete a minimum of 9 SH in formal 500 series courses in major area of concentration (not necessarily in one division). Students must also complete 6 SH in a collateral area. Note: The 595 seminar series may not be counted towards fulfillment of this requirement.

SUB-TOTAL: 3 - 13 semester credit hours*

*Students with a master’s degree in public health or a related area may receive up to 32 SH of credit towards the 96 SH total. The 32 SH of credit will apply to the required 39-45 elective hours.

TOTAL HOURS

Minimum of 96 semester credit hours

Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences (EOHS): PhD Learning Objectives

Upon completing a PhD degree in EOHS, the student will be able to:

Demonstrate all skills and knowledge of MS degree.
Begin to exhibit research independence through initiation, development and performance of research that leads to new contributions to science; compose scientific papers of publishable quality; and develop a research proposal that includes scientific rationale and methods, a research management plan and a budget for the research.
Display attributes of leadership, partnership and team-building, skepticism, and engagement in the scientific community.
Demonstrate thorough knowledge of research methods, including qualitative and quantitative methods, and specialized knowledge in an area of environmental and occupational health sciences.
Discuss and describe how scientific research contributes to advancement of environmental and occupational health.
Teach at the college or graduate level.

General PhD Curricular Policies: See http://www.uic.edu/sph/shandbook_phd.htm

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