Course Descriptions

175:000 Cooperative Education Internship

Internship for training occupational and environmental health professionals.

175:101 Health, Work and the Environment

This course surveys current topics in occupational and environmental health. It emphasizes how this nation protects workers, how it protects humans from environmental agents and reduces environmental harm.

175:111 International Health

Topics include urgent health problems and among disadvantaged populations in developed countries. Biological, social, cultural, and political aspects of international health problems and applications of research methods from epidemiology, environmental health, and the social sciences.

175:170 Injury and Violence Prevention

Will introduce students to the theory, research, and practice of injury control. Topics include concepts that form the foundation of the study of injury control and prevention, the data available, risk factors, and prevention approaches.

175:171 Problems in Occupational & Environmental Health

Didactic material in occupational and environmental health that may include tutorial, seminar, or faculty-directed work. May be a course on a special topic taught on a one-time or first-time basis.

175:172 Independent Study in Occupational & Envvironmental Health

In-depth pursuit of an area in occupational and environmental health requiring substantial creativity and independence.

175:175 Research Methods in Disaster Studies

This course introduces students to the epidemiologic study of disasters and their health outcomes. It will focus on research to reduce health effects from disasters and discusses disaster response and preparedness research.

175:180 Occupational and Environmental Health Seminar

Contemporary topics on agricultural medicine, occupational and environmental health problems.

175:182 Statistics for Experimenters

Application of statistical techniques for evaluation of data derived from experimental samples designs; use of spreadsheets, statistical software; design and analysis of experiments; regression analysis; model building; practical applications.

175:185 Occupational Health Research Seminar

The course will provide students with the tools necessary to critically assess published scientific research reports from a methodological perspective. The course will draw heavily from recently published research studies in occupational and environmental health.

175:190 Occupational Ergonomics I

This course covers the principles of ergonomics with a focus on the physiological and anatomical capabilities of the worker and interaction with their work environment.

175:192 Occupational Safety

This course covers the principles and practices of Occupational Safety. Specific applications in industrial and other occupational settings are presented, and interactions with other disciplines are emphasized.

175:193 Environmental Health Law

This course covers the legal foundation of environmental health protection: federal, state and local regulation, police powers and tort liability. Some of the areas to be covered include investigations and inspections, air and water pollution, and biotechnology.

175:195 Global Environmental Health

Global Environmental Health utilizes the latest interactive video technology to bring together international experts to address current problems, including trans-boundary movement of pollutants, vectors of infectious agents, global warming and climate change, and many others.

175:196 Agricultural Safety: Theories and Practice

General theories and practice of injury prevention are presented from various fields, including industrial safety, engineering, regulation, education, epidemiology, and social psychology. Applications from these fields are considered for strategic application in agriculture.

175:197 Environmental Health

Environmental health comprises those aspects of human health that are determined by interactions with physical, chemical, biological and social factors in the global environment. This course surveys all aspects, focusing on issues most relevant today.

175:198 Solid and Hazardous Wastes

Sources, characteristics, collection, disposal of solid and hazardous wastes; environmental impacts of hazardous waste management; resource recovery systems.

175:201 Research in Occupational & Environmental Health

Research that may lead to a dissertation.

175:203 Preceptorship in Occupational & Environmental Health

Work experience using knowledge and skills acquired in the classroom; arranged in conjunction with departmental or collegiate activities or with governmental agencies or private industry.

175:205 Public Health Law

Introduction to legal principles and key case law relevant to public health policymaking. Survey of constitutional, administrative and tort law as they apply to public health, focus on developing fluency with legal analysis and terminology.

175:209 Rural Health and Agricultural Medicine

Introduces students to health care delivery issues, environmental health problems and occupational medical problems commonly encountered by practicing rural physicians. The course is conceptual so that principles can be applied to rural-agricultural areas.

175:210 Current Topics in Agricultural Health

Agro-terrorism, antibiotic resistance, and genetically modified organisms are examples of current issues studied, affecting the health of agricultural populations. Current scientific literature is the primary information resource used.

175:211 Veterinary Public Health: The Profession

History, overview of veterinary public health and the American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine (ACVPM). Overview, preparation for board certification in ACVPM.

175:220 Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology

The course will introduce students to environmental and occupational epidemiologic study designs, basic and novel methods of exposure assessment, and methodologies to improve study validity within this focus area.

175:221 Aerosol Technology

Introduces particle statistics and physics of aerosols, including inertia, diffusion, nucleation, evaporation, condensation, optics, and electrical properties. Discusses relationship to diverse fields such as agriculture, nanotechnology, environmental and occupational health, atmospheric chemistry, and drug delivery.

175:230 Occupational Health

This introduction to occupational health focuses on recognition and prevention of occupational diseases, workplace environmental assessment and control, populations at special risk for occupational disease and injury, legal and regulatory issues in occupational health.

175:231 Industrial Hygiene Fundamentals

This course is designed to provide students with instruction in the basic principles of industrial hygiene, stressing the recognition and evaluation of chemical health hazards.

175:232 Assessing Physical Agent Hazards

This course is designed to provide students with instruction in the basic principles of recognizing and evaluating hazards presented by physical agents in the occupational environment.

175:233 Control of Occupational Hazards

The course presents concepts from physical sciences applicable to control of industrial hygiene hazards. Two-thirds of the course is devoted to engineering ventilation controls; one-third is devoted to non-ventilation controls, program management issues and skills.

175:251 Injury Epidemiology

How epidemiology can be applied to injury prevention and control: surveying the literature, specific methodologic problems in injury epidemiology, critical evaluation of research articles.

175:252 Environmental Health Policy

This course surveys the major issues in environmental health and related public policy, focusing on similarities/differences between US and international regulatory efforts. The role of government, industry, academia and advocacy groups is discussed.

175:253 Epidemiology of Occupational Injuries

Detailed study of the epidemiologic literature on occupational injuries and their prevention. Will focus on research methods in this field.

175:260 Environmental Toxicology

Sources, routes of absorption and effects of environmental toxicants affecting man; and pathophysiology of toxicant actions, including those of air and water pollutants, metals, pesticides, solvents, food toxicants, and other chemicals.

175:265 Advanced Toxicology

Advanced toxicology is an in-depth lecture course covering hepatic metabolism and toxification mechanisms, pulmonary and immunotoxicology, nervous system poisons and their mechanisms of action, and general and molecular concepts of chemical carcinogenesis.

175:285 Advanced Topics in Occupational Medicine

Advanced Topics in Occupational Medicine is an advanced course for clinicians (physicians, nurses, and others). The course will provide students with skills and knowledge necessary for evaluation and treatment of patients with work-related illness.

175:294 Occupational Ergonomics II

This course focuses on the application of ergonomic principles in the work setting. Ergonomic topics include: participatory issues, economics, workforce issues, psychosocial factors, shift work, integration in a business model, legislative issues, legal aspects, and international perspectives in ergonomics.

175:295 Clinical Ergonomics

This experiential course prepares the student for conducting independent on-site ergonomic evaluations. The course includes the development and evaluation of ergonomic interventions within an industrial setting and a rotation through the occupational medicine clinic.

175:299 Occupational Medicine Practicum

Work experience in occupational medicine integrating core course material with aspects of occupational medicine practice and administration. Consent of instructor required.

175:300 Thesis/Dissertation

Research for preparation of thesis or dissertation; seminar preparation. Consent of advisor is required.

175:996 Occupational Medicine

In-depth study of an area in occupational and environmental medicine, with clinical experience in an outpatient community setting. Open only to medical students. Four week course. Consent of instructor required.