285 EHS Professional Standards. (1) Provides the student with the personal and professional tools to succed as an environmental health professional. Information related to rquired professional certifications, ethical demands, and professional standards, and practices will be provided.
290 Seminar in Environmental Health. (2) Prerequisite: instructor approval. Discussion and analysis of literature related to selected current environmental health problems.
300 Water Supplies and Waste Disposal. (4) Prerequisite: EHS 280. Corequisite: BIO 320. Drinking water safety in both individual private systems and larger public systems. Maintenance of raw water quality. Water purification, delivery systems, and surveillance. Techniques for collection, treatment, and disposal of sewage.
335 Hazardous and Solid Waste Management. (3) Prerequisites: CHE 111 and EHS 280; or instructor approval. Nature of toxic and hazardous wastes and methods for their disposal to protect health and the environment and to prevent contamination of groundwater. The environmental health and safety aspects of solid waste collection, treatment and disposal, and regulations governing waste management are also covered.
340 Industrial Hygiene. (3) Prerequisite: BIO 121, CHE 111, and EHS 280; or instructor approval. The impact of the workplace on safety and health, and methods for avoiding work-related illnesses. Emphasis will be on the evaluation and the control of the work environment to protect worker health.
345 Advanced Industrial Hygiene. (3) Prerequisite: EHS 340 or Instructor approval. In-depth discussion of the chemical and physical hazards of the workplace and their evaluation and to provide hands-on experience in industrial hygiene sampling and analysis.
349 Cooperative-Environmental Health Science (1-8). Prerequisite: departmental approval. Work in placements related to academic studies. One to eight hours credit per semester or summer. A minimum of 80 hours work required for academic credit.
355 CBR Terrorism and Environmental Health (3). This course will provide students with environmental health principles required to protect individuals and communities in times of war, general emergencies and disaster, both natural and human, due to chemical, biological, and radioactive threats.
360 Air Pollution and Health (4). Prerequisite: CHE 112, EHS 280; or instructor approval. Health effects of air pollution, including a discussion of the primary sources of airborne pollutants, their transport and transformation, the control of air pollution, state and national standards.
370 Risk Assessment and Environmental Epidemiology. (3) Prerequisites: HEA 450 and EHS 280; or instructor approval. The use of data to define the health effects of exposed individuals or populations to hazardous materials and situations.
380 Food Hygiene. (3) Prerequisites: BIO 320 and EHS 280; or instructor approval. A study of the health effects of food and milkborne disease, including a discussion of milk and foods as vehicles of infection, essentials of milk and food quality, standards for dairy, milk, and food service equipment.
410 Radiological Health. (3) Prerequisites: EHS 280, MAT 107, AND PHY 131. Corequisite: PHY 131. A discussion of the health effects from ionizing radiation, including radiation sources, detection, measurement, control, and safety devices.
425 Environmental Health Program Planning. (3) Prerequisite: EHS 280, 300, and 335. Administration, planning, implementation, and evaluation of environmental health programs. Discussion of resources and promotional techniques, and the role of the environmental health specialist dealing with community, state, and regional agencies.
440 Environmental and Industrial Toxicology. (3) Prerequisites: CHE 112 and EHS 280; or instructor approval. Health effects and nature of toxic substances with discussions of dose-response relationships, latency, target organs, and potential exposures in the environment.
460 Housing and Institutional Environments. (3) Prerequisites: EHS 280 or instructor approval. discusses the requirements for healthful housing means of attaining and maintaining these requirements. Reviews environmental health concerns relating to day-care centers, schools, hospitals, nursing homes, and prisons. describes surveillance, evaluative, and corrective methods.
463 Field Experience in Environmental Health. (6) Prerequisites: EHS 300, 335, 380, and departmental approval. Supervised and directed field experience in local, state, regional environmental health agencies, or with appropriate industries. Eight to twelve weeks full-time required depending on work place.
485 EHS Professional Practice Seminar. (1) Prerequisite: 90 hours. Provides the graduating student a certification and licensure review for their required state and national exams. The student will also be taught how to develop professional success strategies and long range career plans.
498 Independent Study in Environmental Health. (1-3) Prerequisites: Student must have the independent study proposal form approved by faculty supervisor and department coordinator prior to enrollment. Opportunity for individual work on an environmental health research problem in a supervised situation.
