MSOH-IH Course Descriptions
PUBH 5020 Occupational Health (3 credit hours)
Scientific, regulatory and management principles applicable to hazard anticipation,
recognition, evaluation and control of harmful agents, including an introduction to
industrial hygiene instrumentation, occupational health programs and ethics. Includes
a field component.
Term Offered: Fall
PUBH 5060 Occupational Safety (3 credit hours)
Scientific, regulatory and management principles applicable to safety and health programs,
administration, and controlling unsafe conditions/acts. Includes a field component.
Term Offered: Fall
PUBH 5160 Environmental Health (3 credit hours)
Scientific, regulatory and management principles applicable to human disease associated
with food, water, air and soil contamination. Focuses on biology and chemistry of
contamination, exposure monitoring and contaminant control. Includes a field component.
Term Offered: Fall
PUBH 5260 Haz Mat and Emerg Response (3 credit hours)
Scientific, regulatory and management principles applicable to characteristics, control,
storage, transport and disposal of chemical, biological and radiological agents; disaster
preparedness and emergency response; personal protective equipment and site assessment/monitoring.
Includes a field component.
Term Offered: Summer
PUBH 5310 Chemical Agents (3 credit hours)
Scientific and management principles applicable to the qualitative and quantitative
evaluation of chemical agents associated with human diseases resulting from various
occupational and environmental exposures. Introduction to the exposure assessment
process including basic characterization, establishing exposure groups, and judging
exposure profiles. Includes laboratory and field components.
Term Offered: Fall
PUBH 5410 Hazard Control (3 credit hours)
Scientific and management principles of air contaminant modeling; control of indoor
and outdoor (ambient) air pollution; operation of dilution and location exhaust ventilation
systems; design of ventilation systems; respiratory and other personal protective
equipment and programs commonly used in the workplace. Includes a laboratory component.
Term Offered: Spring
PUBH 5520 Biological Agents (3 credit hours)
Scientific principles applicable to the pathogenicity, evaluation and control of microbiological
agents, parasitic agents, and some biological vectors associated with human diseases
resulting from various occupational and environmental exposures. Includes a laboratory
component.
Term Offered: Summer
PUBH 5620 Physical Agents (3 credit hours)
Scientific, regulatory, and management principles applicable to the assessment and
control of exposure to physical agents (noise, thermal stress, ionizing and non-ionizing
radiation). Includes laboratory and field components.
Term Offered: Spring
PUBH 5700 Risk Assessment (3 credit hours)
Scientific and management principles of human health risk assessment including hazard
identification, toxicity assessment, exposure assessment, risk characterization and
communication relative to public, environmental, and occupational health.
Term Offered: Summer
PUBH 6000 Biostatistics (3 credit hours)
An introduction to descriptive statistics including measurement of central tendency,
dispersion, correlation and regression, hypothesis testing, and select nonparametric
methods, including the use of statistical package(s).
Term Offered: Spring, Fall
PUBH 6010 Public Health Epidemiology (3 credit hours)
The course will present principles of the epidemiology method including problem solving.
Various study designs will be discussed, including prospective and retrospective studies,
analytic, and experimental methods.
Term Offered: Spring, Fall
PUBH 6730 Research in Occupational Health (1-3 credit hours)Students will participate in selected ongoing research programs of members of the
faculty. Maybe repeated for credit.
Term Offered: Fall, Spring Summer
PUBH 6890 Independent Study in Occupational Health (1-3 credit hours)
The student and instructor will agree on a program of study that will enable the student
to achieve specific learning objectives. May be repeated for credit.
Term Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
PUBH 6960 Internship in Occupational Health (3 credit hours)
Prerequisite: Completion of 24 MSOH semester credit hours or consent of advisor. Required if < 1 year of work experience in the field.
Comprehensive or focused practical training in environmental and occupational health
at a designated agency, organization or company. May be repeated for credit. Graded
S/U.
Term Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
PUBH 6970 Project in Occupational Health (4 credit hours)
Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or consent of advisory committee.
Independent development by a student with approval and guidance by a major advisor,
of a paper, manual, software, etc. applicable to a specific area of environmental
and occupational health. May be repeated for credit.
Term Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
PUBH 6990 Thesis Research (4-8 credit hours)
Prerequisite: Completion of 12 credit hours or consent of advisory committee
Research in occupational health or a related area to fulfill the research requirements
for the MSOH-IH degree. Must meet the guidelines established by the College of Graduate
Studies. May be repeated for credit. Graded S/U
Term Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer