Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences - EOHS

The information below lists courses approved in this subject area effective Spring 2010. Not all courses will necessarily be offered these terms. Please consult the Schedule of Classes for a listing of courses offered for a specific term.

500-level courses require graduate standing.

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400 Principles of Environmental Health Sciences
3 hours. 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(s): Enrollment restricted to public health students; other graduate, professional and advanced undergraduate students admitted by consent as space permits. To obtain consent, see the SPH registrar.

405 Environmental Calculations
2 hours. Problem solving techniques as applied to environmental and occupational health: dimensional analysis, mass and energy balances, trial and error solutions, numerical and graphical techniques. Recommended background: Mathematics through calculus, college physics and chemistry.

408 Biological, Chemical, Explosives, and Nuclear Weapons as Public Health Threats
3 hours. Preparation, understanding of threats, and rescue & response issues pertaining to potential terrorist incidents from a public health perspective. Same as EPID 408. Prerequisite(s): Graduate or professional standing; or consent of the instructor. Recommended background: EOHS 400 and EPID 410.

411 Water Quality Management
4 hours. Water pollution; historical and current developments in problems and solutions: characterization of pollutants, regulatory framework, risk assessment, standards, modeling, water purification, public health concerns. Prerequisite(s): Taught online. Consent of the instructor.

418 Analysis of Water and Wastewater Quality
2 hours. Basic instrumentation and procedures related to measurement and surveillance of various water quality parameters.

421 Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene
2 hours. Recognition, evaluation, control of chemical, biological, and physical agents in the workplace. Application to preliminary surveys, measurement of exposure, and evaluation of control measures. Prerequisite(s): EOHS 400 or consent of the instructor.

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

428 Industrial Hygiene Laboratory I
2 hours. Detailed methods and experiments for measuring chemical, biological, and physical agents; and methods for evaluating the effectiveness of control measures. Prerequisite(s): EOHS 400 and EOHS 405 and EOHS 421, or consent of the instructor.

431 Air Quality Management I
3 hours. Sources, control, dispersion and effects upon receptors of air pollution: health and other adverse effects, meteorology and dispersion estimation, photochemistry, aerosol characterization. Same as CME 419. Prerequisite(s): EOHS 405 or CME 216 or consent of instructor.

438 Air Quality Laboratory
2 hours. Basic instrumentation and procedures related to measurement and surveillance of ambient air quality. Methods for collection and identification of gaseous and particulate pollutants. Prerequisite(s): EOHS 405 or consent of the instructor.

440 Chemistry for Environmental Professionals
3 hours. Introductory atmospheric chemistry, aspects of air pollution, chemistry related to natural water and water treatment; priority organic pollutants and heavy metals. Same as CME 411. Prerequisite(s): One year of college chemistry.

441 Ergonomics and Human Factors
3 OR 4 hours. 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. Same as IE 441. 3 undergraduate hours; 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite(s): Credit or concurrent registration in IE 342 or consent of the instructor.

450 Principles of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
2 hours. 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.

455 Environmental and Occupational Toxicology
3 hours. 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. Prerequisite(s): CHEM 232 and CHEM 234 and BIOS 100 or the equivalent courses and senior standing or above or consent of the instructor.

460 Safety Engineering
3 OR 4 hours. Human protection systems; accident and emergency handling; manufacturing and service hazard systems. Same as IE 461. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite(s): IE 342 or consent of the instructor.

461 Community Health and Consumer Protection
2 hours. 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(s): EOHS 400 or consent of the instructor.

463 Safety Management Systems
2 hours. Introduction to practical aspects of initiating a safety program in a moderately sized production plant. Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor.

472 Management of Solid and Hazardous Wastes
3 hours. 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. Same as CME 423, and GEOG 444.

482 Occupational Safety Science
2 hours. Principles of occupational safety, safety regulations, accident investigation procedures and engineering, behavioral, and administrative techniques for occupational accident control. Prerequisite(s): EOHS 421 or consent of the instructor.

495 Environmental/Occupational Health Seminar
1 hours. Discussions of current environmental health and occupational health topics, with presentations by students, faculty members and visiting scientists.

512 Advanced Water Quality Management Topics
4 hours. Water quality management course examining drinking water quality and contaminant discharge topics. Risk assessment methodologies are applied for deriving optimal decisions. Extensive computer use required. Prerequisite(s): EOHS 411 or consent of the instructor.

521 Aerosol Science and Technology
3 hours. Advanced technical skills and theory of aerosol physics required for characterizing aerosol behavior, fate and transport, and measurement considerations in occupational/environmental settings. Prerequisite(s): EOHS 421 and EOHS 428; or consent of the instructor. Recommended background: Two semesters of college-level physics.

523 Engineering Controls/Ventilation
4 hours. 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. Prerequisite(s): EOHS 405 and EOHS 421 and EOHS 428, or consent of the instructor.

529 Industrial Hygiene Laboratory II
2 hours. Field work: comprehensive industrial hygiene surveys of local work places. Health hazard analysis, design of sampling strategies, collection of field data, report preparation. Prerequisite(s): EOHS 428 and EOHS 438; or consent of the instructor.

532 Air Quality Management II
2 hours. Air quality management: Integration of diverse aspects. Data interpretation; standards setting; policy implementation; equipment design; hazardous spill modeling; indoor air pollution; case studies. Same as CME 526. Prerequisite(s): EOHS 431 or CME 419.

542 Water Chemistry
4 hours. Chemical equilibria and kinetic principles as applied to processes occurring in natural and engineered water systems. Same as CME 524. Prerequisite(s): EOHS 440 or CME 411.

543 Environmental Organic Chemistry
4 hours. Properties and behavior of environmental organic pollutants. Theory and estimation techniques. Concepts of environmental fate assessment. Applications of fate models. Same as CME 523. Prerequisite(s): EOHS 440 or CME 411.

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

553 Global Environmental and Occupational Health
2 hours. Examines the major current issues in occupational and environmental health and their policy solutions. Prerequisite(s): EOHS 400; or consent of the instructor.

554 Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology
2 hours. Methods and issues of environmental epidemiology: outbreak, clusteranalysis, cross-sectional, case-control, cohort, ecological, and time series designs; contemporary issues: cancer and reproductive hazards. Same as EPID 554. Prerequisite(s): EPID 401 and BSTT 401 and EOHS 400; or consent of the instructor.

555 Advanced Topics in Toxicology
3 hours. 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(s): Grade of B or better in EOHS 455; or consent of the instructor.

556 Risk Assessment in Environmental and Occupational Health
3 hours. Methodologies for utilizing toxicological and epidemiological data to estimate health risks due to exposures to pollutants in environments. Prerequisite(s): EOHS 405 and BSTT 401 and EPID 400; or consent of the instructor.

557 Design and Analysis of Experiments
4 hours. 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(s): Completion of one course in statistics, working knowledge of at least one statistical software package (SAS, Design Expert, Minitab, etc.), and consent of the instructor. Recommended Background: A working knowledge of linear algebra and additional advanced course work in statistics.

558 Industrial Toxicology
2 hours. Clinical toxicology and mechanisms of workplace toxicants: metals, fibers, dusts, and organics. Diagnosis and treatment. Prerequisite(s): EOHS 400 and EOHS 457.

564 Geographic Information System Application in Public Health
3 hours. Examination of GIS applications in Public Health and the process of designing a GIS-based public health investigation. Same as HPA 564. This is an on-line course. Prerequisite(s): BSTT 400 and HPA 465 and consent of the instructor.

565 Datamining Applications in Public Health
3 hours. Presents the key public health information system sources, describes the process of datamining and introduces the student to a sample of datamining techniques. Same as HPA 565. Extensive computer use required. Prerequisite(s): BSTT 400.

570 Hazardous Materials Management
3 hours. 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. Prerequisite(s): EOHS 405 and EOHS 421 and EOHS 428; or consent of instructor.

571 Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
3 hours. 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. Same as EPID 571. Prerequisite(s): 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. Recommended background: Grade of B or better in EOHS 400.

572 Environmental Risk Assessment and Management
4 hours. Risk assessment from a public health, quantitative and environmental risk management perspective.

584 Radiation Protection
3 hours. Radioactivity, energetics, kinetics, interactions, external protection, dosimetry, recommendations and standards, measurement, radon. Prerequisite(s): EOHS 405 or consent of the instructor.

594 Advanced Special Topics in Environmental Health
1 TO 4 hours. 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(s): Consent of the instructor.

597 Advanced Laboratory Projects in Environmental Health
1 TO 4 hours. Application and integration of sampling and measurement techiques for characterization of inside and ambient environments. Individuals or groups supervised by EOHS faculty members. Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor.

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