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| ENVH 421 | ENVH 498 | ||
| ENVH 422 | ENVH 509 | ||
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| ENVH 436 |
ENVH 414- Introduction to Environmental Health (3) - Introductory overview of the major areas of environmental health, such as ecology, environmental law, population concerns; environmental diseases and toxins; food, water, and air quality; radiation; noise; and solid and hazardous waste.
ENVH 421 - Cartography (4) - Cartographic principles and guidelines, including, geodesy, map projections, coordinate and locational systems, scale and distance, direction, vertical factors, mapping methods and techniques, and graphic representation of Earth patterns. Provides the foundation for understanding advanced geospatial technologies with application in public-health including GIS, remote sensing, and global positioning systems.
ENVH 422 - Principles of Geographic Information Systems (3) -Comprehensive overview of the concepts, functions, applications, technologies, and trends pertaining to automated geographic information systems (GIS). Topics include: GIS hardware and software considerations, data resources, technical issues and applications in GIS.
*Prerequisite: Concurrent enrollment in ENVH 421.
ENVH 423 (4)/523 (3) Practical Issues in GIS - Key tasks and issues faced by GIS managers and practitioners responsible for implementing and managing health GIS systems in government or private-sector organizations. Sound principles and approaches for GIS implementation, as well as project and database design/management/integration, presented to provide the necessary foundation of information on alternatives and pitfalls. Main topics include: GIS needs assessment, software/hardware considerations, financial and staffing requirements, project-scope delineation, project planning and control, pilot projects, conceptual and physical database design, digital database construction, database conversion fundamentals, and maintenance of GIS database currency.
ENVH 424 (4)/524(3) GIS Technology & Methods/GIS Software Applications & Methods - Project-oriented course introducing state-of-the-art PC-based GIS applications. Student acquires the conceptual knowledge as well as hands-on experience needed to optimally utilize available functions within desktop GIS technology for display, editing, analysis, and presentation of spatial and thematic data. Focus on ArcView GIS, its analytical extensions, and the Avenue programming language. PC ARC/INFO and its basic modules. Student-developed projects.
* Prerequisite: Programming language course, e.g., Visual Basic, C, etc.
ENVH 434 - Advanced GIS Applications(3) - Conceptual overview and hands-on experience on high-end GIS applications for advanced spatial data analysis and display. Focus on ARC/INFO GIS, the worldwide standard for GIS functionality. ARC/INFO's relevant subsystems and spatial statistical functions for health and environmental analysis. ARC/INFO's AML programming language introduced. Student-developed projects.
*Prerequisite: ENVH 424
ENVH 435 (3)/535(2) - Sources, Capture, and Integration of GIS Data/Integrating Geospatial Data with GIS - Overview of some of the technologies and methods used in capturing, processing, integrating, and displaying GIS data. Topics include: global positioning systems, satellite digital imagery, image processing, aerial photography, digital orthophotography, GIS applications for the World Wide Web, and GIS data sources on the Internet.
*Prerequisite: ENVH 422
ENVH 436 Spatial Analysis with GIS (4) - Available quantitative methods of geographic analysis. Focus on GIS functionality suited for modeling and analyzing complex spatial relationships. Basic functions for the selective retrieval of spatial information and the computation or mapping of statistical summaries of that information. Advanced quantitative methods of spatial statistics for analyzing different data-feature types, data structures, and investigating patterns in spatial data. Main topics include: feature manipulation, distance measurement, spatial overlay, proximity analysis, spatial-correlation analysis, point-pattern analysis, spatial interaction, surface analysis, network analysis, grid analysis, and spatial modeling within GIS. Applications of quantitative methods presented with empirical data.
*Prerequisite: ENVH 422, 424; STAT 414, 415
ENVH 437 - GIS in Public and Environmental Health (4) - Review of GIS methods and analytical techniques with potential for improving public health research and practice. Fields of public health research and practice. Fields of public health considered individually. Specific GIS approaches and techniques identified. Specific disciplines considered include: epidemiology, health promotion, international health/development, health-care administration, environmental health and contamination, and emergency management. Current applications of GIS technology and methods at the international, national and local levels.
*Prerequisite: ENVH 436
ENVH 498 - Health Geographic Senior Project(4) - One-quarter senior research or applications project conducted during the student's final academic quarter. Student demonstrates mastery of spatial analysis skills by assessing relevant public health challenges amenable GIS technology. Paper and oral presentation required.
ENVH 509 Principles of Environmental Health (3) - Surveys rural and urban environmental factors which affect human health status, enjoyment of the quality of life, and man's survival. Focuses within a framework of air, water, food quality, residential environments, industrial sites, recreational patterns, and environmental risk avoidance. Stresses prevention of disease and promotion of healthful environments. Not applicable toward a major in environmental health.
ENVH 515 Food Quality Assurance (3) - Principles and techniques of quality assurance for food preparation and prevention of food-borne diseases. Sanitary and safe preparation, storage, transportation, and handling of foodstuffs and products, both commercially and residentially. Criteria and practical methodology of inspection and surveillance techniques, facilities design, and plan checking. Food degradation, contamination, additives, and toxicants. Performance criteria for food handlers, with application to environmental techniques in education, enforcement, and consultation. Field trips.
*Prerequisite: Program prerequisite courses or written consent of program adviser.
ENVH 557 Geographical Techniques for Health and Environmental Analysis (3) - Introduces geographic tools for graphic display and spatial analysis of international and U.S. domestic health, epidemiological health services, and environmental health problems and issues. Focuses on using Geographical Information Systems (GIS); desktop mapping; geocoded, computerized databases and medical geographical applications in health and environmental planning, decision making, and research.
ENVH 558 Global Environmental Health (2) Evaluates the global implications of man's impact on terrestrial, atmospheric, and marine environments. Considers dilution and dispersion of pollutants, climatic changes, endangered species, desertification, deforestation, vehicle emissions, free-trade agreements, renewable resources, and export of hazardous industry to developing nations. Discusses the impact of political, economic, and cultural factors on present and future mitigation strategies.
ENVH 559 Environmental Health for Developing Countries (3) Studies the major challenges associated with environmental health and hygiene practices in developing nations. Studies water resource development/ operations and maintenance, infection and disease vector control, pesticide management, food quality and availability, solid-waste management, uncontrolled urban settlements, occupational health, and the implication of localized atmospheric pollutants.
ENVH 566 Outdoor Air Quality and Human Health (3) Introduces sources and characteristics of air pollutants and their effects on humans and human environment. Considers methods used in sampling of pollutants, controls, and abatement of air-quality standards violations.
*Prerequisite: Program prerequisite courses or written consent of program adviser.
ENVH 567 Hazardous Materials and Solid-Waste Management (3) Studies production, collection, transportation, treatment, recycling, and disposal of solid wastes and hazardous materials. Considers toxic effects and hazard-producing characteristics of these materials; and the process of disposal-site design, siting, and operation.
*Prerequisite: Program prerequisite courses or written consent of program adviser.
ENVH 568 Water Quality Assurance (3) Studies principles and processes involved in providing safe and adequate water supplies. Focuses on water source development, quantity and quality assurance, source and system design, and inspection parameters. Emphasizes protection of water sources from contamination; and the abatement of, and correction techniques applied to, degraded water quality. Encompasses potable water supplies, fresh and saline bodies of water, and municipal liquid-waste disposal.
*Prerequisite: Program prerequisite courses or written consent of program adviser.
ENVH 569 Environmental Sampling and Analysis (4) Provides practical laboratory experience that serves as an introduction to techniques used in measurement and evaluation of environmental health problems. Presents techniques pertinent to air, water, and food sanitation. Occupational stressors and radiological health. Two lectures and two laboratories per week.
*Prerequisite: Program prerequisite courses or written consent of program adviser.
ENVH 575 Indoor Air Quality (3) Presents social and technical factors associated with nonindustrial indoor air-quality issues. Discusses ventilation, source assessment, complaint investigations, control measures, sanitation, building design, enforcement criteria, and case studies.
*Prerequisite: Microbiology or consent of instructor.
ENVH 578 Principles of Occupational Health (3) Overviews issues related to the effects of occupational exposures on health and safety of workers. Includes principles of preplacement evaluations, biological and environmental monitoring of hazards, surveillance testing, and disease/injury prevention and treatment.
ENVH 579 Occupational Health Management (3) Introduces student to planning, implementing, and evaluating health programs in occupational settings. Includes principles of case management, cost containment, worker evaluation and placement, referrals, and rehabilitation. Reviews current legislation, regulations, and legal issues.
ENVH 581 Principles of Industrial Hygiene (3) Introductory course in industrial hygiene. Emphasizes industrial/occupational health, hygiene and safety, philosophy, legislation, and regulation.
*Prerequisite: Program prerequisite courses or written consent of program adviser.
ENVH 585 Institutional Environmental Health (3) Applies biological and chemical methods to identify and control the environmental factors influencing health in institutional sites, hospitals, acute- and extended-care facilities, foster- and day-care sites, correctional institutions, schools, and other related institutions. Includes epidemiology and etiology of hospital-acquired infections and their control.
ENVH 586 Environmental Health Administration (3) Introduces the administration and management of organizations involved in environmental health. Presents legal concepts and environmental statutes.
ENVH 587 Environmental Toxicology (3) Reviews principles and mechanisms of toxicology as applied to environmentally encountered toxic agents. Characterizes toxicants of current public health importance and their pathologic effect on representative tissues and organs. Considers dose response relationships; hazard and risk assessment; and determination of toxicity of environmental carcinogens, teratogens, mutagens, pesticides, metals, plastics, and organic solvents.
*Prerequisite: Program prerequisite courses or written consent of program adviser.
ENVH 589 Environmental Risk Assessment (3) Presents principles and methods of risk assessment associated with human exposure to toxic chemicals and other environmental hazards. Emphasis placed on quantitative risk-assessment methodologies and approaches. Also considered are ecological risk assessment; risk-management issues involved in taking appropriate public health action; risk communication, acceptability, and perception; and informational resources.
ENVH 605 Seminar in Environmental and Occupational Health (1) Presents and discusses areas of current interest. May be repeated for additional credit.
ENVH 694 Research (1-14) Independent research on problems currently receiving study in the department. Research program arranged with faculty member(s) involved. Minimum of thirty hours required for each unit of credit. Limited to qualified master's degree students.
*Prerequisite: Consent of instructor responsible for supervision and of program adviser.
ENVH 696 Directed Study / Special Project (1-4) Individual arrangements for advanced students to study under the guidance of a program faculty member. May include readings, literature reviews, or other special projects. Minimum of thirty hours required for each unit of credit. A maximum of 4 units applicable to any master's degree program.
*Prerequisite: Consent of instructor responsible for supervision and of program adviser.
ENVH 698 Laboratory (1-6)
Individual and/or group arrangements for selected students to participate in a structured laboratory experience in specified areas of environmental health.
*Prerequisite: Consent of instructor responsible for supervision and of program adviser.
ENVH 798 Field Practicum (200, 400 clock hours)
Assignment to private, government, international, or voluntary health agency or other School-approved organization in which practical application of the materials studied on campus is made under the guidance of the department faculty and the organization involved. May consist of a research project. May be repeated for additional credit.
*Prerequisite: Course requirements and consent of instructor(s) responsible for supervision and of program adviser.
ENVH 798A/B Field Practicum (200, 400 clock hours) Assignment to private, government, international, or voluntary health agency or other School-approved organization in which practical application of the materials studied on campus is made under the guidance of the department faculty and the organization involved. May consist of a research project. May be repeated for additional credit.*Prerequisite: Course requirements and consent of instructor(s) responsible for supervision and of program adviser.Last Revised: Tue, Oct 09, 2007
