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PUBH 6320 - Fundamentals of Epidemiology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

This course provides an understanding of basic methods and tools used by epidemiologists to study the health of populations.

STAT 5021 - Statistical Analysis

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Intensive introduction to statistical methods for graduate students needing statistics as a research technique. prereq: college algebra or instr consent; credit will not be granted if credit has been received for STAT 3011

PUBH 6742 - Ethics in Public Health: Research and Policy

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Introduction to ethical issues in public health research/policy. Ethical analysis. Recognizing/analyzing moral issues.

PUBH 8888 - Thesis Credit: Doctoral

Credits:	1.0 -24.0 [max 100.0]
Grading Basis:	No Grade
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

(No description) prereq: Max 18 cr per semester or summer; 24 cr required; For Environmental Health Students ONLY: Contact Director of Graduate Studies and the Graduate Student Coordinator.

CEGE 5541 - Environmental Water Chemistry

Credits:	3.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Introduction to water chemistry. Physical chemical principles, geochemical processes controlling chemical composition of waters, behavior of contaminants that affect the suitability of water for beneficial uses. prereq: CEGE 3501, Chem 1061, Chem 1062, upper division CSE or grad student or instructor consent

CEGE 8542 - Chemistry of Organic Pollutants in Environmental Systems

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Structural characteristics and physico-chemical properties of organic contaminants in aquatic systems. Emphasizes PCBs, PAHs, dioxins, insecticides, herbicides, and chlorinated solvents. Factors affecting their transport/transformation. Structure- and property-activity relationships, their use in predicting organic chemical behavior. prereq: CEGE 5541 or instr consent

EEB 5601 - Limnology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Advanced introduction to description/analysis of interaction of physical, chemical, and biological factors that control functioning of life in lakes and other freshwater aquatic environments. prereq: Grad student or instr consent

PUBH 6190 - Environmental Chemistry

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Overview air, water, and soil chemistry. Pertinent environmental problems. Human/ecological multimedia exposures to chemicals in the environment. prereq: One course each in [gen chem, org chem] or instr consent

CONS 8004 - Economic and Social Aspects of Conservation Biology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Economic/social aspects of conservation biology. Ecological economics, human dimension of conservation biology, values of conserving species/ecosystems. prereq: CBio student or instr consent

CEGE 4561 - Solids and Hazardous Wastes

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

This course will serve as an introduction to the topics of solid and hazardous waste management. Classes will incorporate information about prevention, treatment options, and the regulations surrounding solid and hazardous waste. They will also provide an opportunity to observe different methods of waste treatment in action.

CEGE 8503 - Environmental Mass Transport

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Prerequisites:	3502, 3501 or equiv or #
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Principles of intraphase and interfacial chemical transport and fate in the environment, specifically the processes of diffusion, dispersion, and convection. Application to surface water and atmospheric mixing, dispersion in groundwater, and transport between these media. prereq: 3502, 3501 or equiv or instr consent

CEGE 8561 - Analysis and Modeling of Aquatic Environments I

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Prerequisites:	One sem grad work or #
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Introduction to hydrologic transport and water quality simulation in natural water systems. Deterministic, process-oriented water quality model development. Mixed cell models, advection, turbulent diffusion/dispersion. Chemical/biological kinetics in water quality models. Application of water quality models to management problems. prereq: One sem grad work or instr consent

EEB 4611 - Biogeochemical Processes

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	EEB 4611/EEB 5611
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Application of biochemistry, ecology, chemistry, and physics to environmental issues. Issues in biogeochemistry. Impact of humans on biogeochemical processes in soils, lakes, oceans, estuaries, forests, urban/managed ecosystems, and extreme environments (e.g., early Earth, deep sea vents, thermal springs). prereq: [BIOL 1009 or 2003] AND [CHEM 1081 or 1061 or 1071H] or instr consent

PUBH 7196 - Applied Practice Experience: Environmental Health

Credits:	1.0 -5.0 [max 5.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

MPH students are required to complete a supervised Applied Practice Experience (APEx). Students must address five competencies and must submit two products that demonstrate attainment of the competencies. prereq: Environmental health student, instr consent

WRS 8050 - Special Topics in Water Resources Science

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 6.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Special topics in water resources science.

EEB 5609 - Ecosystem Ecology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Regulation of energy and elements cycling through ecosystems. Dependence of cycles on kinds/numbers of species within ecosystems. Effects of human-induced global changes on functioning of ecosystems.

PUBH 6341 - Epidemiologic Methods I

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 6320PubH /6341
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Introduction to epidemiologic concepts and methods: (1) Study design (randomized trials and observational studies); (2) Measures of exposure-disease association; (3) Casual inference and bias; (4) Confounding and effect modification.

PUBH 6450 - Biostatistics I

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course will cover the fundamental concepts of exploratory data analysis and statistical inference for univariate and bivariate data, including: ? study design and sampling methods, ? descriptive and graphical summaries, ? random variables and their distributions, ? interval estimation, ? hypothesis testing, ? relevant nonparametric methods, ? simple regression/correlation, and ? introduction to multiple regression. There will be a focus on analyzing data using statistical programming software and on communicating the results in short reports. Health science examples from the research literature will be used throughout the course. prereq: [College-level algebra, health sciences grad student] or instr consent

PUBH 6742 - Ethics in Public Health: Research and Policy

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Introduction to ethical issues in public health research/policy. Ethical analysis. Recognizing/analyzing moral issues.

PUBH 6140 - Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Principles/concepts in identifying health effects in workplace. Strategies for identifying excess risk, evaluating strengths/weaknesses of research techniques, assessing bias/confounding. prereq: Coursework in epidemiology, biostatistics

PUBH 6342 - Epidemiologic Methods II

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Methods and techniques for designing, implementing, analyzing, and interpreting observational epidemiologic studies, including cohort, case-control, and cross-sectional studies.

PUBH 6451 - Biostatistics II

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course will cover more advanced aspects of statistical analysis methods with a focus on statistical modeling, including: ? two-way ANOVA, ? multiple linear regression, ? logistic regression, ? Poisson regression, ? log binomial and ordinal regression, ? survival analysis methods, including Kaplan-Meier analysis and proportional hazards (Cox) regression, ? power and sample size, and ? survey sampling and analysis. There will be a focus on analyzing data using statistical programming software and on communicating the results in short reports. Health science examples from the research literature will be used throughout the course. prereq: [PubH 6450 with grade of at least B, health sciences grad student] or instr consent

PUBH 8141 - Doctoral Seminar in Observational Inference

Credits:	2.0 [max 20.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Fundamentals of epidemiologic inference. Methods for designing, analyzing, and interpreting epidemiologic studies.

PUBH 8888 - Thesis Credit: Doctoral

Credits:	1.0 -24.0 [max 100.0]
Grading Basis:	No Grade
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

(No description) prereq: Max 18 cr per semester or summer; 24 cr required; For Environmental Health Students ONLY: Contact Director of Graduate Studies and the Graduate Student Coordinator.

PUBH 6120 - Injury Prevention in the Workplace, Community, and Home

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Injury epidemiology: analyses of major injury problems affecting the public in the workplace, community, and home using epidemiologic model and conceptual framework; emphasis on strategies/program development for prevention and control.

PUBH 6130 - Occupational Medicine: Principles and Practice

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Pathogenesis of diseases caused by occupational hazards. Evaluating work-related illnesses. Overall regulatory framework governing occupational health/safety. prereq: Environmental health major; toxicology course recommended or instr consent

PUBH 6150 - Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Occupational Health and Safety Field Problems

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Guided evaluation of potential health/safety problems at work site, recommendations and design criteria for correction/evaluation of occupational health/safety programs.

PUBH 6170 - Introduction to Occupational Health and Safety

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Nurs/PubH 5170
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Summer

Concepts/issues in occupational health/safety. Application of public health principles/decision-making process in preventing injury/disease, promoting health of adults, protecting worker populations from environmental hazards. Observational visit to manufacturing facility. prereq: Environmental health major or instr consent

PUBH 6173 - Exposure to Physical Agents

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Spring Even Year

Nature, health effects, monitoring, and control of physical agents in working/living environments. Ionizing/non-ionizing radiations (including lasers, ultraviolet, visible, and infrared light). Noise/vibration, heat/cold stress. Dose, response, and engineering interventions.

PUBH 6181 - Surveillance of Foodborne Diseases and Food Safety Hazards

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 5181/VMed 5165
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Principles/methods for surveillance of foodborne diseases. Investigation of outbreaks, assessment of food safety hazards. Focuses on integration of epidemiologic/lab methods.

PUBH 6343 - Epidemiologic Methods III

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Analysis/interpretation of data from various epidemiological study designs. SAS used to demonstrate epidemiological/statistical concepts in data analysis. prereq: [6342, 6451] with a grade of at least B- or instr consent

PUBH 6355 - Pathophysiology of Human Disease

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Compendium of human diseases relevant to public health professionals. Focuses on cardiovascular disease, cancer, and infectious disease. Presented from epidemiologic perspective. Significance of diseases in terms of prevalence, incidence, morbidity, and mortality. Risk factors, prevention strategies. prereq: Epidemiology major or public health nutrition major or Environmental Health major or instr consent

PUBH 6381 - Genetics in Public Health in the Age of Precision Medicine

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Our understanding of human genomic variation and its relationship to health is expanding rapidly. This knowledge is now being translated primarily through the field of ?precision medicine? (finding the right drug for the right person at the right time). Public health, in contrast, seeks to abate the social and environmental factors that lead to disease and health disparities. This course will provide an introduction to the field of public health genomics at this interesting point in its history. Approximately one-half of the course is devoted to Genetic Epidemiology, or the science of detecting genetic risk factors for human disease. The other half of the course will cover public health genomics, including ?precision public health?, genetic screening programs, and the possibilities and pitfalls of direct to consumer marketing of genetic tests. How genomics relates to health equity will be a recurring theme of this course. This is a graduate course designed primarily for Epidemiology MPH and PhD students, and fulfills the ?Epi Of? requirement for the MPH in Epidemiology. Graduate students from other programs are very welcome.

PUBH 6385 - Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Principles and/ methods. Strategies for disease control and prevention, including immunization. Relevance of modes of transmission of specific agents for disease spread and prevention. Public health consequences of infectious diseases at local, national, and international levels.

PUBH 6387 - Cancer Epidemiology

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

Epidemiologic aspects of cancer. Theories of carcinogenesis, patterns of incidence and mortality, site-specific risk factors. Issues of cancer control and prevention.

PUBH 6806 - Principles of Public Health Research

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Evaluation of public health research literature and planning for independent research projects. Formulation of research question, research design, sampling techniques, use of research concepts, and data analysis. Data collection techniques, including questionnaires, interviews, and data analysis. prereq: Pub hlth or grad or professional school student or instr consent

PUBH 7400 - Topics: Biostatistics

Credits:	0.5 -4.0 [max 20.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer

New courses or topics of interest in biostatistics.

PUBH 7430 - Statistical Methods for Correlated Data

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Correlated data arise in many situations, particularly when observations are made over time and space or on individuals who share certain underlying characteristics. This course covers techniques for exploring and describing correlated data, along with statistical methods for estimating population parameters (mostly means) from these data. The focus will be primarily on generalized linear models (both with and without random effects) for normally and non-normally distributed data. Wherever possible, techniques will be illustrated using real-world examples. Computing will be done using R and SAS. prereq: Regression at the level of PubH 6451 or PubH 7405 or Stat 5302. Familiarity with basic matrix notation and operations (multiplication, inverse, transpose). Working knowledge of SAS or R (PubH 6420).

PUBH 7460 - Advanced Statistical Computing

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Statistical computing using SAS, Splus, and FORTRAN or C. Use of pseudo-random number generators, distribution functions. Matrix manipulations with applications to regression and estimation of variance. Simulation studies, minimization of functions, nonlinear regression, macro programming, numerical methods of integration. prereq: [7405, biostatistics major, [C or FORTRAN]] or instr consent

PUBH 8120 - Occupational and Environmental Health Sciences Research Seminar

Credits:	1.0 [max 12.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Facilitates student research training in occupational health and Safety. Roundtable discussions, interdisciplinary involvement.

PUBH 6180 - Ecology of Infectious Diseases

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	CMB 5180/PubH 6180/PubH 6380
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Ways in which host, agent, and environmental interactions influence transmission of infectious agents. Environmental dissemination, eradication/control, evolution of virulence, analytical/molecular tools.

PUBH 6450 - Biostatistics I

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course will cover the fundamental concepts of exploratory data analysis and statistical inference for univariate and bivariate data, including: ? study design and sampling methods, ? descriptive and graphical summaries, ? random variables and their distributions, ? interval estimation, ? hypothesis testing, ? relevant nonparametric methods, ? simple regression/correlation, and ? introduction to multiple regression. There will be a focus on analyzing data using statistical programming software and on communicating the results in short reports. Health science examples from the research literature will be used throughout the course. prereq: [College-level algebra, health sciences grad student] or instr consent

PUBH 6742 - Ethics in Public Health: Research and Policy

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Introduction to ethical issues in public health research/policy. Ethical analysis. Recognizing/analyzing moral issues.

PUBH 6320 - Fundamentals of Epidemiology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

This course provides an understanding of basic methods and tools used by epidemiologists to study the health of populations.

PUBH 6341 - Epidemiologic Methods I

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 6320PubH /6341
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Introduction to epidemiologic concepts and methods: (1) Study design (randomized trials and observational studies); (2) Measures of exposure-disease association; (3) Casual inference and bias; (4) Confounding and effect modification.

PUBH 6112 - Environmental Health Risk Assessment: Application to Human Health Risks from Exposure to Chemicals

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Introduction to risk in context of regulatory decision making. prereq: PubH 6102 or instructor permission.

PUBH 6115 - Worker Protection Law

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Role of government in protecting rights of citizens. Labor movement history as starting point for discussion of systems for protecting workers in unsafe workplaces and compensating them for injuries. Laws against class-based discrimination.

PUBH 6116 - Environmental Law

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Questions when pollution protection law conflicts with policy encouraging the use of natural resources. Conflicts when government restricts use of property without compensating its owner. Increasing authority of government to audit businesses.

PUBH 8888 - Thesis Credit: Doctoral

Credits:	1.0 -24.0 [max 100.0]
Grading Basis:	No Grade
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

(No description) prereq: Max 18 cr per semester or summer; 24 cr required; For Environmental Health Students ONLY: Contact Director of Graduate Studies and the Graduate Student Coordinator.

PUBH 6049 - Legislative Advocacy Skills for Public Health

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

State legislature as arena for public health practice. Skills necessary to operate in that arena. Analyzing emergence, development, and resolution of legislative issues of public health importance.

PUBH 6078 - Public Health Policy as a Prevention Strategy

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Philosophical, ethical, economic, political, efficacy rationale for policy approach to prevention. Historical/current application of prevention policy to public health problems. prereq: 2nd yr MPH or public health MS student or [Epi, Biostats, Env Hlth, HSRPconcurrent registration is required (or allowed) in A PhD student] or instr consent

PUBH 6420 - Introduction to SAS Programming

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Summer

Use of SAS for analysis of biomedical data. Data manipulation/description. Basic statistical analyses (t-tests, chi-square, simple regression).

PUBH 6711 - Public Health Law

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring & Summer

Basic concepts of law, legislative process, and legal bases for existence/administration of public health programs. Legal aspects of current public health issues/controversies, regulatory role of government in health services system. prereq: Grad student or professional school student or instr consent

PUBH 6724 - The Health Care System and Public Health

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Overview of health care delivery, finance systems within public health context. Components of health care system: financing, role of employers/public programs, health care delivery system, managed care. Collaborative interventions between managed care, public health. prereq: Public health or grad student or instr consent

PUBH 6780 - Topics in Public Health Administration and Policy

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 60.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer

New courses or topics of interest in public health administration/policy.

PUBH 6852 - Program Evaluation in Health and Mental Health Settings

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 6034/PubH 6852
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Understanding an evaluation study. Program evaluation. Applications to health and mental health settings. emphasizes public health.

PUBH 6862 - Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Government regulations. New technologies. Diagnosis/treatment protocols. Strengths, limitations, appropriateness of different approaches. prereq: instr consent; introductory econ course recommended

PUBH 7196 - Applied Practice Experience: Environmental Health

Credits:	1.0 -5.0 [max 5.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

MPH students are required to complete a supervised Applied Practice Experience (APEx). Students must address five competencies and must submit two products that demonstrate attainment of the competencies. prereq: Environmental health student, instr consent

PUBH 8801 - Health Services Policy Analysis: Theory

Credits:	1.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Course introduces students to the research and theoretical aspects of health policy, to enhance understanding of of the equity, historical, and socio-cultural, and political context of health policy, to develop deep fluency in the health policy process and policy-relevant aspects of health services research. prereq: PubH: HSRPA major or instr consent

PUBH 8802 - Health Services Policy Analysis: Applications

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Spring Odd Year

Emphasizes relationships between health services research/policy. Uses case studies to examine how research influences policy/vice versa.

ANTH 8203 - Research Methods in Social and Cultural Anthropology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Classic and current issues in research methodology, including positivist, interpretivist, feminist, and postmodernist frameworks. Methodology, in the broadest sense of the concept, is evaluated. Students conduct three research exercises and set up an ethnographic research project. prereq: Grad anth major or instr consent

PA 5002 - Introduction to Policy Analysis

Credits:	1.5 [max 1.5]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Process of public policy analysis from problem structuring to communication of findings. Commonly used analytical methods. Alternative models of analytical problem resolution.

PA 5021 - Microeconomics for Policy Analysis

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Introduction to tools useful for public policy. Intermediate microeconomics.

PA 5022 - Applications of Economics for Policy Analysis

Credits:	1.5 -3.0 [max 9.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Application of economic reasoning to a wide range of contemporary public policy issues. The following topically-focused courses also fulfill the MPP economics requirement: PA 5431: Public Policies on Work and Pay, PA 5503: Economics of Development, PA 5521: Development Planning and Policy Analysis, PA 5722: Economics of Natural Resource and Environmental Policy, and PA 5805: Global Economics. prereq: 5021 or equiv

PA 5031 - Statistics for Public Affairs

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Basic statistical tools for empirical analysis of public policy alternatives. Frequency distributions, descriptive statistics, elementary probability/probability distributions, statistical inference. Estimation/hypothesis testing. Cross-tabulation/chi-square distribution. Analysis of variance, correlation. Simple/multiple regression analysis.

PA 5032 - Applied Regression

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Bivariate/multivariate models of regression analysis, assumptions behind them. Problems using these models when such assumptions are not met.

PA 5033 - Multivariate Techniques

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Use of bivariate and multivariate statistical approaches for analyzing and evaluating public affairs issues and the assumptions behind the analytical approaches. Designed to help students read, understand, interpret, use, and evaluate empirical work used in social sciences by policy analysts and policy makers. prereq: Students who register for PA 5033 must take PA 5044 and PA 5033 in the same semester. The same grade will be issued for PA 5044 and PA 5033 after PA 5033 is completed.

PA 5311 - Program Evaluation

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

This course covers the core principals, methods, and implementation of evaluation research. Students will learn through an applied partnership with a nonprofit or state/local government clients. The course is designed for both students interested in a potential career in evaluation and those that want to be better consumers of research. Past programmatic/policy areas included health and human services, education, environment science, economic development, transportation, and evidence-based policymaking.

PA 5711 - Science, Technology & Environmental Policy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Interplay of science, technology, the environment, and society. Approaches from across the social sciences will cover how science and technology can create new environmental pressures as well as policy challenges in a range of spheres from climate change to systems of intellectual property and international development.

PA 5722 - Economics of Environmental Policy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Introduction to economic principles and methods as they apply to environmental issues such as climate change, biodiversity conservation, and water quality. Course will cover benefit-cost analysis, methods of environmental valuation, as well as critiques of market-based solutions to environmental challenges.

PUBH 6341 - Epidemiologic Methods I

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 6320PubH /6341
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Introduction to epidemiologic concepts and methods: (1) Study design (randomized trials and observational studies); (2) Measures of exposure-disease association; (3) Casual inference and bias; (4) Confounding and effect modification.

PUBH 6450 - Biostatistics I

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course will cover the fundamental concepts of exploratory data analysis and statistical inference for univariate and bivariate data, including: ? study design and sampling methods, ? descriptive and graphical summaries, ? random variables and their distributions, ? interval estimation, ? hypothesis testing, ? relevant nonparametric methods, ? simple regression/correlation, and ? introduction to multiple regression. There will be a focus on analyzing data using statistical programming software and on communicating the results in short reports. Health science examples from the research literature will be used throughout the course. prereq: [College-level algebra, health sciences grad student] or instr consent

PUBH 6742 - Ethics in Public Health: Research and Policy

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Introduction to ethical issues in public health research/policy. Ethical analysis. Recognizing/analyzing moral issues.

PUBH 8888 - Thesis Credit: Doctoral

Credits:	1.0 -24.0 [max 100.0]
Grading Basis:	No Grade
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

(No description) prereq: Max 18 cr per semester or summer; 24 cr required; For Environmental Health Students ONLY: Contact Director of Graduate Studies and the Graduate Student Coordinator.

PUBH 6112 - Environmental Health Risk Assessment: Application to Human Health Risks from Exposure to Chemicals

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Introduction to risk in context of regulatory decision making. prereq: PubH 6102 or instructor permission.

PUBH 6181 - Surveillance of Foodborne Diseases and Food Safety Hazards

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 5181/VMed 5165
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Principles/methods for surveillance of foodborne diseases. Investigation of outbreaks, assessment of food safety hazards. Focuses on integration of epidemiologic/lab methods.

PUBH 6182 - Emerging Infectious Disease: Current Issues, Policies, and Controversies

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Issues/controversies surrounding emerging infectious diseases. Framework for considering realistic/innovative policies. Bioterrorism, public health preparedness. Pandemic influenza preparedness, smallpox vaccination, antibiotic resistance. prereq: AHC student, instr consent

PUBH 6342 - Epidemiologic Methods II

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Methods and techniques for designing, implementing, analyzing, and interpreting observational epidemiologic studies, including cohort, case-control, and cross-sectional studies.

PUBH 6180 - Ecology of Infectious Diseases

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	CMB 5180/PubH 6180/PubH 6380
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Ways in which host, agent, and environmental interactions influence transmission of infectious agents. Environmental dissemination, eradication/control, evolution of virulence, analytical/molecular tools.

PUBH 6385 - Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Principles and/ methods. Strategies for disease control and prevention, including immunization. Relevance of modes of transmission of specific agents for disease spread and prevention. Public health consequences of infectious diseases at local, national, and international levels.

PUBH 6451 - Biostatistics II

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course will cover more advanced aspects of statistical analysis methods with a focus on statistical modeling, including: ? two-way ANOVA, ? multiple linear regression, ? logistic regression, ? Poisson regression, ? log binomial and ordinal regression, ? survival analysis methods, including Kaplan-Meier analysis and proportional hazards (Cox) regression, ? power and sample size, and ? survey sampling and analysis. There will be a focus on analyzing data using statistical programming software and on communicating the results in short reports. Health science examples from the research literature will be used throughout the course. prereq: [PubH 6450 with grade of at least B, health sciences grad student] or instr consent

VMED 8090 - Epidemiology of Zoonoses and Diseases Common to Animals and Humans

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Major human zoonotic diseases, methods of transmission, diagnosis, control, and prevention. prereq: Epidemiology and infectious disease course or instr consent

PUBH 6381 - Genetics in Public Health in the Age of Precision Medicine

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Our understanding of human genomic variation and its relationship to health is expanding rapidly. This knowledge is now being translated primarily through the field of ?precision medicine? (finding the right drug for the right person at the right time). Public health, in contrast, seeks to abate the social and environmental factors that lead to disease and health disparities. This course will provide an introduction to the field of public health genomics at this interesting point in its history. Approximately one-half of the course is devoted to Genetic Epidemiology, or the science of detecting genetic risk factors for human disease. The other half of the course will cover public health genomics, including ?precision public health?, genetic screening programs, and the possibilities and pitfalls of direct to consumer marketing of genetic tests. How genomics relates to health equity will be a recurring theme of this course. This is a graduate course designed primarily for Epidemiology MPH and PhD students, and fulfills the ?Epi Of? requirement for the MPH in Epidemiology. Graduate students from other programs are very welcome.

PUBH 6355 - Pathophysiology of Human Disease

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Compendium of human diseases relevant to public health professionals. Focuses on cardiovascular disease, cancer, and infectious disease. Presented from epidemiologic perspective. Significance of diseases in terms of prevalence, incidence, morbidity, and mortality. Risk factors, prevention strategies. prereq: Epidemiology major or public health nutrition major or Environmental Health major or instr consent

PUBH 6711 - Public Health Law

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring & Summer

Basic concepts of law, legislative process, and legal bases for existence/administration of public health programs. Legal aspects of current public health issues/controversies, regulatory role of government in health services system. prereq: Grad student or professional school student or instr consent

PUBH 7210 - Topics: Global Food Systems

Credits:	0.5 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N only
Typically offered:	Every Summer

Food systems related to specific food products, including inputs, processes, and outputs from production sites to consumers. Context for food safety policy. Concept of food system biosecurity as prerequisites for a safe, abundant, affordable, and diverse food supply. Case studies of food-borne disease outbreaks illustrate critical controls in food production.

PUBH 7214 - Principles of Risk Communication

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Summer

Key concepts of risk communication theory and their practical application to collection/sharing of information in support of individual and community decision-making about public health issues. Application of risk communication principles to routine, ongoing public health issues and those that arise out of emergency/crisis.

FSCN 4121 - Food Microbiology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Microorganisms involved in food-borne disease, food fermentations, and food spoilage. Methods for their control/detection. Food microbiology. Foodborne pathogens. Microbial food spoilage. Control of microorganisms in food. prereq: BIOC 3021, [2021 or VBS 2032 or MICB 3301]

FSCN 4122 - Food Fermentations and Biotechnology

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Major food fermentations important for food industry. Microbiological components. Impact of biotechnology on food production. Genetic tools. Improvement of microbes used in food production by biotechnological approaches. prereq: [MICB 3301, BIOL 4003] or instr consent

MICA 8002 - Structure, Function, and Genetics of Bacteria and Viruses

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Structure, function, and metabolism of microorganisms. Microbial genetics. Molecular virology. prereq: [One undergrad or grad course each in [microbiology, genetics, biochemistry]] or instr consent

MICA 8003 - Immunity and Immunopathology

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Lymphocyte activation, signal transduction in lymphocytes, antigen receptor genetics, antigen presentation, lymphoid anatomy, adaptive immune responses to microbes, immunodeficiency, immunopathology, cytokines, transplantation, autoimmunity. prereq: Upper level undergrad immunology course or instr consent

MICA 8010 - Microbial Pathogenesis

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

Molecular mechanisms of bacterial/viral pathogenesis. Strategies of disease causation/interaction with host, regulation of virulence factors, mechanism of virulence factor transmission to other microbes. prereq: MICa grad student or instr

PUBH 6341 - Epidemiologic Methods I

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 6320PubH /6341
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Introduction to epidemiologic concepts and methods: (1) Study design (randomized trials and observational studies); (2) Measures of exposure-disease association; (3) Casual inference and bias; (4) Confounding and effect modification.

PUBH 6450 - Biostatistics I

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course will cover the fundamental concepts of exploratory data analysis and statistical inference for univariate and bivariate data, including: ? study design and sampling methods, ? descriptive and graphical summaries, ? random variables and their distributions, ? interval estimation, ? hypothesis testing, ? relevant nonparametric methods, ? simple regression/correlation, and ? introduction to multiple regression. There will be a focus on analyzing data using statistical programming software and on communicating the results in short reports. Health science examples from the research literature will be used throughout the course. prereq: [College-level algebra, health sciences grad student] or instr consent

PUBH 6742 - Ethics in Public Health: Research and Policy

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Introduction to ethical issues in public health research/policy. Ethical analysis. Recognizing/analyzing moral issues.

PUBH 7196 - Applied Practice Experience: Environmental Health

Credits:	1.0 -5.0 [max 5.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

MPH students are required to complete a supervised Applied Practice Experience (APEx). Students must address five competencies and must submit two products that demonstrate attainment of the competencies. prereq: Environmental health student, instr consent

PUBH 6130 - Occupational Medicine: Principles and Practice

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Pathogenesis of diseases caused by occupational hazards. Evaluating work-related illnesses. Overall regulatory framework governing occupational health/safety. prereq: Environmental health major; toxicology course recommended or instr consent

PUBH 6140 - Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Principles/concepts in identifying health effects in workplace. Strategies for identifying excess risk, evaluating strengths/weaknesses of research techniques, assessing bias/confounding. prereq: Coursework in epidemiology, biostatistics

PUBH 6150 - Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Occupational Health and Safety Field Problems

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Guided evaluation of potential health/safety problems at work site, recommendations and design criteria for correction/evaluation of occupational health/safety programs.

PUBH 6170 - Introduction to Occupational Health and Safety

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Nurs/PubH 5170
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Summer

Concepts/issues in occupational health/safety. Application of public health principles/decision-making process in preventing injury/disease, promoting health of adults, protecting worker populations from environmental hazards. Observational visit to manufacturing facility. prereq: Environmental health major or instr consent

PUBH 6451 - Biostatistics II

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course will cover more advanced aspects of statistical analysis methods with a focus on statistical modeling, including: ? two-way ANOVA, ? multiple linear regression, ? logistic regression, ? Poisson regression, ? log binomial and ordinal regression, ? survival analysis methods, including Kaplan-Meier analysis and proportional hazards (Cox) regression, ? power and sample size, and ? survey sampling and analysis. There will be a focus on analyzing data using statistical programming software and on communicating the results in short reports. Health science examples from the research literature will be used throughout the course. prereq: [PubH 6450 with grade of at least B, health sciences grad student] or instr consent

PUBH 8120 - Occupational and Environmental Health Sciences Research Seminar

Credits:	1.0 [max 12.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Facilitates student research training in occupational health and Safety. Roundtable discussions, interdisciplinary involvement.

NURS 8171 - Qualitative Research Design and Methods

Credits:	3.0 -4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Overview and comparative analysis of selected qualitative research methods and analytic strategies. Focuses on developing rigorous qualitative designs that contribute to development of nursing and health care knowledge for diverse populations. prereq: 8170 or equiv

PUBH 8888 - Thesis Credit: Doctoral

Credits:	1.0 -24.0 [max 100.0]
Grading Basis:	No Grade
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

(No description) prereq: Max 18 cr per semester or summer; 24 cr required; For Environmental Health Students ONLY: Contact Director of Graduate Studies and the Graduate Student Coordinator.

PUBH 6120 - Injury Prevention in the Workplace, Community, and Home

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Injury epidemiology: analyses of major injury problems affecting the public in the workplace, community, and home using epidemiologic model and conceptual framework; emphasis on strategies/program development for prevention and control.

PUBH 6112 - Environmental Health Risk Assessment: Application to Human Health Risks from Exposure to Chemicals

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Introduction to risk in context of regulatory decision making. prereq: PubH 6102 or instructor permission.

PUBH 6325 - Data Processing with PC-SAS

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Introduction to methods for transferring/processing existing data sources. Emphasizes hands-on approach to pre-statistical data processing and analysis with PC-SAS statistical software with a Microsoft Windows operating system.

PUBH 6342 - Epidemiologic Methods II

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Methods and techniques for designing, implementing, analyzing, and interpreting observational epidemiologic studies, including cohort, case-control, and cross-sectional studies.

PUBH 8813 - Measurement of Health-Related Social Factors

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Spring Odd Year

How social factors such as innovativeness, compliance, religiosity, and stress are measured and tested for reliability and validity. Relationships between theory, concepts, variables, data. prereq: Intro stat course, understanding of simple correlations or instr consent

PUBH 6742 - Ethics in Public Health: Research and Policy

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Introduction to ethical issues in public health research/policy. Ethical analysis. Recognizing/analyzing moral issues.

PUBH 8888 - Thesis Credit: Doctoral

Credits:	1.0 -24.0 [max 100.0]
Grading Basis:	No Grade
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

(No description) prereq: Max 18 cr per semester or summer; 24 cr required; For Environmental Health Students ONLY: Contact Director of Graduate Studies and the Graduate Student Coordinator.

PUBH 8166 - Experiences in Toxicology Research

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Students complete research projects in labs of toxicology program graduate faculty members. prereq: Environmental health PhD student in toxicology concentration

PHSL 5101 - Human Physiology

Credits:	5.0 [max 5.0]
Course Equivalencies:	INMD 6814/PHSL 5101
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Survey of human physiology: Cardiovascular, muscle, respiratory, gastrointestinal, nutrition, renal physiology. Integrative, systems approach. Emphasizes normal function. prereq: Grad student

BIOL 4004 - Cell Biology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Biol 4004/GCD 3033/4005W
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Processes fundamental to cells. Emphasizes eukaryotic cells. Assembly/function of membranes/organelles. Cell division, cell form/movement, intercellular communication, transport, secretion pathways. Cancer cells, differentiated cells. prereq: Completion of Biol 4003 is preferred, Biol2003/2003H or Biol4003 or grad

BIOC 4331 - Biochemistry I: Structure, Catalysis, and Metabolism in Biological Systems

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	BioC 3021/BioC 3022/BioC 4331/
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Advanced survey of structure/catalysis, metabolism/bioenergetics. prereq: (BIOL 1009 or 2003 or equiv) AND (Chem 2302 or CHEM 2081/2085 or equiv)

BIOC 4332 - Biochemistry II: Molecular Mechanisms of Signal Transduction and Gene Expression

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Advanced survey of molecular biology. Mechanisms of gene action/biological regulation. prereq: BioC 4331 or Bioc 3201 or BioC 3022

BIOC 8001 - Biochemistry: Structure, Catalysis, and Metabolism

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Protein structure, methods to determine structure, protein folding, forces stabilizing macromolecular structure, protein engineering, design. Dynamic properties of proteins/enzymes, enzyme substrate complexes, mechanism of enzyme catalysis. Enzymology of metabolic regulation and cell signaling. prereq: BMBB or MCDBconcurrent registration is required (or allowed) in G grad student or instr consent

BIOC 8002 - Molecular Biology and Regulation of Biological Processes

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Classical to current topics in molecular biology. Aspects of DNA, RNA, and protein biology. DNA replication, repair, and recombination. RNA transcription, editing, and regulation. Protein translation/modification. Technologies such as deep-sequencing micro-RNA and prions. prereq: [BMBB or MCDBG] grad student or instr consent

ANSC 8344 - Mechanisms of Hormone Action

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

Major signal transduction, apoptosis. Topics incorporate pharmacology, biochemistry, and cell biology of hormone action in relevant physiological systems. Lectures on basic principles. Specialized lectures. Discussion of primary literature. prereq: Course in biochemistry or cell biology or instr consent

PHCL 5111 - Pharmacogenomics

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Human genetic variation, its implications. Functional genomics, pharmacogenomics, toxicogenomics, proteomics. Interactive, discussion-based course. prereq: Grad student or instr consent Keywords: Pharmacology, Pharmacogenomics, Toxicogenomics, Proteomics, Genetics, Drug

BIOC 8216 - Signal Transduction and Gene Expression

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Cell signaling, metabolic regulation in development. Procaryotic/eucaryotic systems used as models for discussion. Literature-based course. prereq: 8002 or instr consent

PUBH 6320 - Fundamentals of Epidemiology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

This course provides an understanding of basic methods and tools used by epidemiologists to study the health of populations.

PUBH 6414 - Biostatistical Literacy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Develop ability to read/interpret statistical results in primary literature. Minimal calculation. No formal training in any statistical programming software. Biostatistical Literacy will cover the fundamental concepts of study design, descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, odds ratios, relative risks, adjusted models in multiple linear, logistic and Poisson regression, and survival analysis. The focus will be when to use a given method and how to interpret the results, not the actual computation or computer programming to obtain results from raw data. prereq: MPH or certificate student or environmental health or instr consent

PUBH 6160 - Principles of Toxicology II

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

This second part of the Principles of Toxicology course is focused on toxicodynamics. In this course,students will learn to apply their knowledge of basic toxicokinetic principles and metabolic systems to elucidate mechanisms of toxicity induced by xenobiotic compounds. In addition, they will learn basic principles of omics-based approaches and methodologies, and how such data can be integrated to assess and predict adverse effects of chemical exposures across multiple levels of biological complexity. At the end of the course, students will give a scientific presentation on a published article of their choice (approved by instructors) that explores the mechanism of a toxicodynamic process. prereqs: Biochemistry and PubH 6104 or permission of the instructor

PUBH 6161 - Regulatory Toxicology

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

In-depth introduction to laws (and associated regulations) of U.S. federal regulatory agencies, such as CPSC, EPA, FDA, OSHA, and DOT, that require/use toxicological data/information in their mission of protecting human/environmental health. prereq: Background in toxicology or pharmacology or related field is recommended

PUBH 6341 - Epidemiologic Methods I

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 6320PubH /6341
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Introduction to epidemiologic concepts and methods: (1) Study design (randomized trials and observational studies); (2) Measures of exposure-disease association; (3) Casual inference and bias; (4) Confounding and effect modification.

PUBH 6342 - Epidemiologic Methods II

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Methods and techniques for designing, implementing, analyzing, and interpreting observational epidemiologic studies, including cohort, case-control, and cross-sectional studies.

PUBH 6343 - Epidemiologic Methods III

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Analysis/interpretation of data from various epidemiological study designs. SAS used to demonstrate epidemiological/statistical concepts in data analysis. prereq: [6342, 6451] with a grade of at least B- or instr consent

PUBH 6450 - Biostatistics I

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course will cover the fundamental concepts of exploratory data analysis and statistical inference for univariate and bivariate data, including: ? study design and sampling methods, ? descriptive and graphical summaries, ? random variables and their distributions, ? interval estimation, ? hypothesis testing, ? relevant nonparametric methods, ? simple regression/correlation, and ? introduction to multiple regression. There will be a focus on analyzing data using statistical programming software and on communicating the results in short reports. Health science examples from the research literature will be used throughout the course. prereq: [College-level algebra, health sciences grad student] or instr consent

PUBH 6451 - Biostatistics II

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course will cover more advanced aspects of statistical analysis methods with a focus on statistical modeling, including: ? two-way ANOVA, ? multiple linear regression, ? logistic regression, ? Poisson regression, ? log binomial and ordinal regression, ? survival analysis methods, including Kaplan-Meier analysis and proportional hazards (Cox) regression, ? power and sample size, and ? survey sampling and analysis. There will be a focus on analyzing data using statistical programming software and on communicating the results in short reports. Health science examples from the research literature will be used throughout the course. prereq: [PubH 6450 with grade of at least B, health sciences grad student] or instr consent

PUBH 6120 - Injury Prevention in the Workplace, Community, and Home

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Injury epidemiology: analyses of major injury problems affecting the public in the workplace, community, and home using epidemiologic model and conceptual framework; emphasis on strategies/program development for prevention and control.

PUBH 6140 - Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Principles/concepts in identifying health effects in workplace. Strategies for identifying excess risk, evaluating strengths/weaknesses of research techniques, assessing bias/confounding. prereq: Coursework in epidemiology, biostatistics

PUBH 6150 - Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Occupational Health and Safety Field Problems

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Guided evaluation of potential health/safety problems at work site, recommendations and design criteria for correction/evaluation of occupational health/safety programs.

PUBH 6170 - Introduction to Occupational Health and Safety

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Nurs/PubH 5170
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Summer

Concepts/issues in occupational health/safety. Application of public health principles/decision-making process in preventing injury/disease, promoting health of adults, protecting worker populations from environmental hazards. Observational visit to manufacturing facility. prereq: Environmental health major or instr consent

PUBH 6325 - Data Processing with PC-SAS

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Introduction to methods for transferring/processing existing data sources. Emphasizes hands-on approach to pre-statistical data processing and analysis with PC-SAS statistical software with a Microsoft Windows operating system.

PUBH 6742 - Ethics in Public Health: Research and Policy

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Introduction to ethical issues in public health research/policy. Ethical analysis. Recognizing/analyzing moral issues.

PUBH 8120 - Occupational and Environmental Health Sciences Research Seminar

Credits:	1.0 [max 12.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Facilitates student research training in occupational health and Safety. Roundtable discussions, interdisciplinary involvement.

PUBH 8141 - Doctoral Seminar in Observational Inference

Credits:	2.0 [max 20.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Fundamentals of epidemiologic inference. Methods for designing, analyzing, and interpreting epidemiologic studies.

GRAD 8101 - Teaching in Higher Education

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Teaching methods/techniques. Active learning, critical thinking, practice teaching, and preparing a portfolio to document/reflect upon teaching. Readings, discussion, peer teaching, e-mail dialog, reflective writing, co-facilitation of course. prereq: Non-Degree Students: contact pffcollege consentumn.edu with questions about registration. If adding a section after first class meeting, contact your instructor as soon as you enroll.

IE 5511 - Human Factors and Work Analysis

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	HumF 5211/IE 5511/ME 5211
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Human factors engineering (ergonomics), methods engineering, and work measurement. Human-machine interface: displays, controls, instrument layout, and supervisory control. Anthropometry, work physiology and biomechanics. Work environmental factors: noise, illumination, toxicology. Methods engineering, including operations analysis, motion study, and time standards. prereq: Upper div CSE or grad student

IE 5513 - Engineering Safety

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Occupational, health, and product safety. Standards, laws, and regulations. Hazards and their engineering control, including general principles, tools and machines, mechanics and structures, electrical safety, materials handling, fire safety, and chemicals. Human behavior and safety, procedures and training, warnings and instructions. prereq: Upper div CSE or grad student

PSY 5501 - Self, Society and Health - What's Work Got To Do With It?

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Survey of history, concepts, theories, methods, and findings of vocational/occupational health psychology. Burnout, personality, violence, stressors/stress-relations, counter productive behaviors, coping in workplace. Vocational development/assessment, career decision-making/counseling, person-environment fit. prereq: 3001W or equiv or instr consent

PUBH 8888 - Thesis Credit: Doctoral

Credits:	1.0 -24.0 [max 100.0]
Grading Basis:	No Grade
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

(No description) prereq: Max 18 cr per semester or summer; 24 cr required; For Environmental Health Students ONLY: Contact Director of Graduate Studies and the Graduate Student Coordinator.

PUBH 6348 - Writing Research Grants

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Focuses on NIH research grants. Mechanisms of grant writing: specific aims, hypotheses, innovation, background, approaches, evaluation analyses, principles of informed consent, budget development, and grant-review process.

PUBH 7405 - Biostatistical Inference I

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

T-tests, confidence intervals, power, type I/II errors. Exploratory data analysis. Simple linear regression, regression in matrix notation, multiple regression, diagnostics. Ordinary least squares, violations, generalized least squares, nonlinear least squares regression. Introduction to General linear Model. SAS and S-Plus used. prereq: [[Stat 5101 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in Stat 5101], biostatistics major] or instr consent

PUBH 7406 - Biostatistical Inference II

Credits:	3.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

This course introduces students to a variety of concepts, tools, and techniques that are relevant to the rigorous design and analysis of complex biomedical studies. Topics include ANOVA, sample-size calculations, multiple testing, missing data, prediction, diagnostic testing, smoothing, variable selection, the bootstrap, and nonparametric tests. R software will be used. Biostatistics students are strongly encouraged to typeset their work using LaTeX or in R markdown. prereq: [7405, [STAT 5102 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in STAT 5102], biostatistics major] or instr consent

PUBH 7407 - Analysis of Categorical Data

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Contingency tables, odds ratio, relative risk, chi-square tests, log-linear models, logistic regression, conditional logistic regression, Poisson regression, matching, generalized linear models for independent data. SAS/S-Plus used throughout. prereq: 7405, [Stat 5102 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in Stat 5102 or Stat 8102 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in Stat 8102]

PUBH 7430 - Statistical Methods for Correlated Data

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Correlated data arise in many situations, particularly when observations are made over time and space or on individuals who share certain underlying characteristics. This course covers techniques for exploring and describing correlated data, along with statistical methods for estimating population parameters (mostly means) from these data. The focus will be primarily on generalized linear models (both with and without random effects) for normally and non-normally distributed data. Wherever possible, techniques will be illustrated using real-world examples. Computing will be done using R and SAS. prereq: Regression at the level of PubH 6451 or PubH 7405 or Stat 5302. Familiarity with basic matrix notation and operations (multiplication, inverse, transpose). Working knowledge of SAS or R (PubH 6420).

PUBH 7450 - Survival Analysis

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Statistical methodologies in analysis of survival data. Kaplan-Meier estimator, Cox's proportional hazards multiple regression model, time-dependent covariates, analysis of residuals, multiple failure outcomes. Typical biomedical applications, including clinical trials and person-years data. prereq: 7405, [STAT 5101 or STAT 8101]

PUBH 8813 - Measurement of Health-Related Social Factors

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Spring Odd Year

How social factors such as innovativeness, compliance, religiosity, and stress are measured and tested for reliability and validity. Relationships between theory, concepts, variables, data. prereq: Intro stat course, understanding of simple correlations or instr consent

GRAD 8102 - Practicum for Future Faculty

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Collegial support for teaching, faculty mentorship at regional college or university. Faculty role at various institutions. Classroom observation/feedback, preparation for academic job search. prereq: [8101 or equiv], [native English speaker or [ibTOEFL score of 27-30] or [ELP score of 1 from CTL]]

GRAD 8200 - Teaching and Learning Topics in Higher Education

Credits:	1.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Create course materials for context/discipline. Assess student learning. Write action plan. Topics may include active learning in sciences, teaching with technology, multicultural education, teaching in clinical settings, learning-community course design.

PUBH 6115 - Worker Protection Law

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Role of government in protecting rights of citizens. Labor movement history as starting point for discussion of systems for protecting workers in unsafe workplaces and compensating them for injuries. Laws against class-based discrimination.

PUBH 6116 - Environmental Law

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Questions when pollution protection law conflicts with policy encouraging the use of natural resources. Conflicts when government restricts use of property without compensating its owner. Increasing authority of government to audit businesses.

PUBH 6123 - Violence Prevention and Control: Theory, Research, and Application

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Analysis/critique of major theories and of epidemiological research pertinent to violence, including characteristics of violence and relevant risk factors, reporting/treatment protocols, and current/potential intervention efforts and prevention initiatives. Emphasizes interdisciplinary contributions to violence prevention/control.

PUBH 6130 - Occupational Medicine: Principles and Practice

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Pathogenesis of diseases caused by occupational hazards. Evaluating work-related illnesses. Overall regulatory framework governing occupational health/safety. prereq: Environmental health major; toxicology course recommended or instr consent

PUBH 6173 - Exposure to Physical Agents

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Spring Even Year

Nature, health effects, monitoring, and control of physical agents in working/living environments. Ionizing/non-ionizing radiations (including lasers, ultraviolet, visible, and infrared light). Noise/vibration, heat/cold stress. Dose, response, and engineering interventions.

PUBH 6344 - Completing the Integrative Learning Experience: Secondary Data Analysis

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

The goal of PubH 6344 is to provide guidance and hands-on experience for developing and completing the Integrated Learning Experience (ILE) research project involving secondary data analysis of a cross-sectional, case-control, or cohort study. The course will help meet research project milestones and complete the project in a timely manner.

PUBH 6355 - Pathophysiology of Human Disease

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Compendium of human diseases relevant to public health professionals. Focuses on cardiovascular disease, cancer, and infectious disease. Presented from epidemiologic perspective. Significance of diseases in terms of prevalence, incidence, morbidity, and mortality. Risk factors, prevention strategies. prereq: Epidemiology major or public health nutrition major or Environmental Health major or instr consent

PUBH 6806 - Principles of Public Health Research

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Evaluation of public health research literature and planning for independent research projects. Formulation of research question, research design, sampling techniques, use of research concepts, and data analysis. Data collection techniques, including questionnaires, interviews, and data analysis. prereq: Pub hlth or grad or professional school student or instr consent

PUBH 6852 - Program Evaluation in Health and Mental Health Settings

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 6034/PubH 6852
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Understanding an evaluation study. Program evaluation. Applications to health and mental health settings. emphasizes public health.

PUBH 7401 - Fundamentals of Biostatistical Inference

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Part of two-course sequence intended for PhD students in School of Public Health who need rigorous approach to probability/statistics/statistical inference with applications to research in public health. prereq: Background in calculus; intended for PhD students in public hlth and other hlth sci who need rigorous approach to probability/statistics and statistical inference with applications to research in public hlth

PUBH 7402 - Biostatistics Modeling and Methods

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Second of two-course sequence. Rigorous approach to probability/statistics, statistical inference. Applications to research in public health. prereq: 7401; intended for PhD students in health sciences

PUBH 7420 - Clinical Trials: Design, Implementation, and Analysis

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Introduction to and methodology of randomized clinical trials. Design issues, sample size, operational details, interim monitoring, data analysis issues, overviews. prereq: 6451 or concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in 6451 or 7406 or instr consent

KIN 5122 - Applied Exercise Physiology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Mechanisms of cardiorespiratory and muscular responses to exercise; application of exercise physiology to assessment of work capacity, athletic conditioning, and requirements of human powered vehicles; low to moderate exercise as an intervention in lowering risk for common health problems. prereq: 4385 or equiv or instr consent

KIN 5723 - Psychology of Sport Injury and Rehabilitation

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Psychosocial bases of risk factors preceding sport injury, responses to the occurrence of sport injury, and the rehabilitation process. Lecture, discussion, guest lecture, interviews, and presentation experience. prereq: Intro psych course

PUBH 6341 - Epidemiologic Methods I

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	PubH 6320PubH /6341
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Introduction to epidemiologic concepts and methods: (1) Study design (randomized trials and observational studies); (2) Measures of exposure-disease association; (3) Casual inference and bias; (4) Confounding and effect modification.

PUBH 6450 - Biostatistics I

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course will cover the fundamental concepts of exploratory data analysis and statistical inference for univariate and bivariate data, including: ? study design and sampling methods, ? descriptive and graphical summaries, ? random variables and their distributions, ? interval estimation, ? hypothesis testing, ? relevant nonparametric methods, ? simple regression/correlation, and ? introduction to multiple regression. There will be a focus on analyzing data using statistical programming software and on communicating the results in short reports. Health science examples from the research literature will be used throughout the course. prereq: [College-level algebra, health sciences grad student] or instr consent

PUBH 6451 - Biostatistics II

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course will cover more advanced aspects of statistical analysis methods with a focus on statistical modeling, including: ? two-way ANOVA, ? multiple linear regression, ? logistic regression, ? Poisson regression, ? log binomial and ordinal regression, ? survival analysis methods, including Kaplan-Meier analysis and proportional hazards (Cox) regression, ? power and sample size, and ? survey sampling and analysis. There will be a focus on analyzing data using statistical programming software and on communicating the results in short reports. Health science examples from the research literature will be used throughout the course. prereq: [PubH 6450 with grade of at least B, health sciences grad student] or instr consent

PUBH 6170 - Introduction to Occupational Health and Safety

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Nurs/PubH 5170
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Summer

Concepts/issues in occupational health/safety. Application of public health principles/decision-making process in preventing injury/disease, promoting health of adults, protecting worker populations from environmental hazards. Observational visit to manufacturing facility. prereq: Environmental health major or instr consent

PUBH 8120 - Occupational and Environmental Health Sciences Research Seminar

Credits:	1.0 [max 12.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Facilitates student research training in occupational health and Safety. Roundtable discussions, interdisciplinary involvement.

PUBH 6862 - Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Government regulations. New technologies. Diagnosis/treatment protocols. Strengths, limitations, appropriateness of different approaches. prereq: instr consent; introductory econ course recommended

PUBH 6855 - Medical Sociology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Introduction to common theoretical/empirical approaches used by sociologists to study health/illness. How content reflects social inequalities in health/illness. Social processes that shape experience of health/illness. prereq: [[Grad or professional school] student, previous experience with statistical software] or instr consent

PUBH 8801 - Health Services Policy Analysis: Theory

Credits:	1.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Course introduces students to the research and theoretical aspects of health policy, to enhance understanding of of the equity, historical, and socio-cultural, and political context of health policy, to develop deep fluency in the health policy process and policy-relevant aspects of health services research. prereq: PubH: HSRPA major or instr consent

PUBH 6845 - Using Demographic Data for Policy Analysis

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

How to pose researchable policy questions, locate existing data, turn data into a usable format, understand data documentation, analyze data, communicate findings according to standards of the professional policy community. Quantitative issues. prereq: [Grad level research methods course, basic statistics course] or instr consent

PUBH 6803 - Conducting a Systematic Literature Review

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Project-based class to develop systematic review skills for evidence-based practice. Draws from AHRQ and Cochrane systematic review methodology; supported by examples from the Minnesota Evidence-based Practice Center. Use for master?s thesis, dissertation, or to support research proposals. Prereq: research study design or epidemiology.

PUBH 6810 - Survey Research Methods

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Theory/application of survey research in data collection. Sampling, item development, instrument design/administration to conduct survey or be aware of issues related to design/implementation. Identification of sources of error in survey research.

PUBH 8813 - Measurement of Health-Related Social Factors

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Spring Odd Year

How social factors such as innovativeness, compliance, religiosity, and stress are measured and tested for reliability and validity. Relationships between theory, concepts, variables, data. prereq: Intro stat course, understanding of simple correlations or instr consent

PUBH 6325 - Data Processing with PC-SAS

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Introduction to methods for transferring/processing existing data sources. Emphasizes hands-on approach to pre-statistical data processing and analysis with PC-SAS statistical software with a Microsoft Windows operating system.

PUBH 6724 - The Health Care System and Public Health

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Overview of health care delivery, finance systems within public health context. Components of health care system: financing, role of employers/public programs, health care delivery system, managed care. Collaborative interventions between managed care, public health. prereq: Public health or grad student or instr consent

PUBH 6140 - Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Principles/concepts in identifying health effects in workplace. Strategies for identifying excess risk, evaluating strengths/weaknesses of research techniques, assessing bias/confounding. prereq: Coursework in epidemiology, biostatistics

PUBH 6020 - Fundamentals of Social and Behavioral Science

Credits:	2.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Three major approaches to social sciences in public health: psychosocial, community approaches, economic and policy interventions. Covers theories of behavior change, program and policy development, community engagement, and policy implementation and advocacy. Not open to students in Community Health Promotion or Public Health Nutrition MPH programs.

PUBH 6320 - Fundamentals of Epidemiology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

This course provides an understanding of basic methods and tools used by epidemiologists to study the health of populations.

PUBH 6741 - Ethics in Public Health: Professional Practice and Policy

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Introduction to ethical issues in public health practice/policy. Ethical analysis, recognizing/analyzing moral issues. prereq: Public health [MPH or MHA or certificate] student or environmental health [MS or PhD] major or instr consent

PUBH 6742 - Ethics in Public Health: Research and Policy

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Introduction to ethical issues in public health research/policy. Ethical analysis. Recognizing/analyzing moral issues.

PUBH 6751 - Principles of Management in Health Services Organizations

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Understanding of and improvement in the competencies of managers in organizations, particularly as applied to health services and public health organizations. prereq: [Public hlth MPH or MHA or certificate] student or [environmental health MS or PhD] student or dentistry MS student or instr consent

PUBH 8888 - Thesis Credit: Doctoral

Credits:	1.0 -24.0 [max 100.0]
Grading Basis:	No Grade
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

(No description) prereq: Max 18 cr per semester or summer; 24 cr required; For Environmental Health Students ONLY: Contact Director of Graduate Studies and the Graduate Student Coordinator.

PUBH 6414 - Biostatistical Literacy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Develop ability to read/interpret statistical results in primary literature. Minimal calculation. No formal training in any statistical programming software. Biostatistical Literacy will cover the fundamental concepts of study design, descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, odds ratios, relative risks, adjusted models in multiple linear, logistic and Poisson regression, and survival analysis. The focus will be when to use a given method and how to interpret the results, not the actual computation or computer programming to obtain results from raw data. prereq: MPH or certificate student or environmental health or instr consent

PUBH 6450 - Biostatistics I

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course will cover the fundamental concepts of exploratory data analysis and statistical inference for univariate and bivariate data, including: ? study design and sampling methods, ? descriptive and graphical summaries, ? random variables and their distributions, ? interval estimation, ? hypothesis testing, ? relevant nonparametric methods, ? simple regression/correlation, and ? introduction to multiple regression. There will be a focus on analyzing data using statistical programming software and on communicating the results in short reports. Health science examples from the research literature will be used throughout the course. prereq: [College-level algebra, health sciences grad student] or instr consent

PUBH 7194 - Integrative Learning Experience: Environmental Health

Credits:	1.0 -5.0 [max 25.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

MPH students complete an integrated learning experience (ILE) that demonstrates synthesis of foundational and concentration competencies. Students in consultation with faculty select foundational and concentration-specific competencies appropriate to the student?s educational and professional goals. prereq: Environmental health program, instr consent

PUBH 7196 - Applied Practice Experience: Environmental Health

Credits:	1.0 -5.0 [max 5.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

MPH students are required to complete a supervised Applied Practice Experience (APEx). Students must address five competencies and must submit two products that demonstrate attainment of the competencies. prereq: Environmental health student, instr consent

PUBH 6130 - Occupational Medicine: Principles and Practice

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Pathogenesis of diseases caused by occupational hazards. Evaluating work-related illnesses. Overall regulatory framework governing occupational health/safety. prereq: Environmental health major; toxicology course recommended or instr consent

PUBH 6150 - Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Occupational Health and Safety Field Problems

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Guided evaluation of potential health/safety problems at work site, recommendations and design criteria for correction/evaluation of occupational health/safety programs.

PUBH 6170 - Introduction to Occupational Health and Safety

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Nurs/PubH 5170
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Summer

Concepts/issues in occupational health/safety. Application of public health principles/decision-making process in preventing injury/disease, promoting health of adults, protecting worker populations from environmental hazards. Observational visit to manufacturing facility. prereq: Environmental health major or instr consent

PUBH 6172 - Industrial Hygiene Applications

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Spring Odd Year

Recognition, evaluation, and control of occupational health/safety hazards. Practice application to specific industrial hygiene problems related to gases/vapors, aerosols, and physical agents.

PUBH 6173 - Exposure to Physical Agents

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Spring Even Year

Nature, health effects, monitoring, and control of physical agents in working/living environments. Ionizing/non-ionizing radiations (including lasers, ultraviolet, visible, and infrared light). Noise/vibration, heat/cold stress. Dose, response, and engineering interventions.

PUBH 6174 - Control of Workplace Exposure

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Spring Odd Year

Hierarchy of options for controlling human exposures to airborne contaminants, both gaseous/aerosol. Science/practice of process control/exhaust ventilation in workplaces/other indoor air spaces/air cleaning. Control of emissions to ambient environment.

PUBH 6175 - Environmental Measurements Laboratory

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Spring Even Year

Measuring exposures to potentially hazardous agents in air or water. Sampling the agent. Preparing sample for analysis. Conducting analysis. Interpreting results. prereq: EH or instr consent

PUBH 6192 - Measurement and Properties of Air Contaminants

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Gaseous/particulate air contaminants, their occurrence in workplaces. Factors governing generation/dispersal. Criteria, rationales, and standards for measurement in workplace. Industrial hygiene measurement. Aerosol-related ill-health. prereq: Good grasp of [elementary physics, chemistry, mathematics including calculus]

PUBH 6193 - Advanced Topics in Human Exposure Science

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Designing exposure studies for epidemiologic investigations and health risk assessments. Techniques to measure/estimate human exposures to hazardous agents in non-occupational and occupational environments. prereq: 6192 or instr consent

PUBH 6112 - Environmental Health Risk Assessment: Application to Human Health Risks from Exposure to Chemicals

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Introduction to risk in context of regulatory decision making. prereq: PubH 6102 or instructor permission.

PUBH 6115 - Worker Protection Law

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Role of government in protecting rights of citizens. Labor movement history as starting point for discussion of systems for protecting workers in unsafe workplaces and compensating them for injuries. Laws against class-based discrimination.

PUBH 6116 - Environmental Law

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Questions when pollution protection law conflicts with policy encouraging the use of natural resources. Conflicts when government restricts use of property without compensating its owner. Increasing authority of government to audit businesses.

PUBH 6120 - Injury Prevention in the Workplace, Community, and Home

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Injury epidemiology: analyses of major injury problems affecting the public in the workplace, community, and home using epidemiologic model and conceptual framework; emphasis on strategies/program development for prevention and control.

PUBH 6131 - Working in Global Health

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Introduction to key issues in global health. Global burden of disease. Cultural issues/health. Nutrition. Infectious diseases. Environmental problems. Women/children. Prereq Grad student.

PUBH 6132 - Air, Water, and Health

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Issues related to providing adequate levels of clean air/water. Local water quantity/quality, air quality in developed/developing world, global air/water quality, policies meant to protect these resources.

PUBH 6140 - Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Principles/concepts in identifying health effects in workplace. Strategies for identifying excess risk, evaluating strengths/weaknesses of research techniques, assessing bias/confounding. prereq: Coursework in epidemiology, biostatistics

PUBH 6161 - Regulatory Toxicology

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

In-depth introduction to laws (and associated regulations) of U.S. federal regulatory agencies, such as CPSC, EPA, FDA, OSHA, and DOT, that require/use toxicological data/information in their mission of protecting human/environmental health. prereq: Background in toxicology or pharmacology or related field is recommended

PUBH 6176 - Hazardous Materials and Waste Management

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

Generation, control, and disposal of hazardous materials/wastes. Recognizing, evaluating, controlling, and preventing hazards from chemicals that threaten occupational/environmental health. Lectures, case studies, workshops, field trips. prereq: [6170, [courses in [chemistry, organic chemistry] or equiv]] or instr consent

PUBH 6182 - Emerging Infectious Disease: Current Issues, Policies, and Controversies

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Issues/controversies surrounding emerging infectious diseases. Framework for considering realistic/innovative policies. Bioterrorism, public health preparedness. Pandemic influenza preparedness, smallpox vaccination, antibiotic resistance. prereq: AHC student, instr consent

PUBH 6190 - Environmental Chemistry

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Overview air, water, and soil chemistry. Pertinent environmental problems. Human/ecological multimedia exposures to chemicals in the environment. prereq: One course each in [gen chem, org chem] or instr consent

PUBH 6451 - Biostatistics II

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course will cover more advanced aspects of statistical analysis methods with a focus on statistical modeling, including: ? two-way ANOVA, ? multiple linear regression, ? logistic regression, ? Poisson regression, ? log binomial and ordinal regression, ? survival analysis methods, including Kaplan-Meier analysis and proportional hazards (Cox) regression, ? power and sample size, and ? survey sampling and analysis. There will be a focus on analyzing data using statistical programming software and on communicating the results in short reports. Health science examples from the research literature will be used throughout the course. prereq: [PubH 6450 with grade of at least B, health sciences grad student] or instr consent

PUBH 7260 - Ergonomics and the Prevention of Workplace Injuries

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Summer Odd Year

Ergonomics for prevention of workplace injuries. Engineering principles/policy issues. Cumulative/acute injuries, status of current policy/regulatory efforts, and program management issues. Applications include upper extremity disorders, back injuries, VDT workstations, and safety/productivity issues.

CEGE 4561 - Solids and Hazardous Wastes

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

This course will serve as an introduction to the topics of solid and hazardous waste management. Classes will incorporate information about prevention, treatment options, and the regulations surrounding solid and hazardous waste. They will also provide an opportunity to observe different methods of waste treatment in action.

CEGE 5551 - Environmental Microbiology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Role of microorganisms in environmental bioremediation, pollution control, water/wastewater treatment, biogeochemistry, and human health. prereq: Upper div or grad student or instructor consent

IE 5511 - Human Factors and Work Analysis

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	HumF 5211/IE 5511/ME 5211
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Human factors engineering (ergonomics), methods engineering, and work measurement. Human-machine interface: displays, controls, instrument layout, and supervisory control. Anthropometry, work physiology and biomechanics. Work environmental factors: noise, illumination, toxicology. Methods engineering, including operations analysis, motion study, and time standards. prereq: Upper div CSE or grad student

IE 5513 - Engineering Safety

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Occupational, health, and product safety. Standards, laws, and regulations. Hazards and their engineering control, including general principles, tools and machines, mechanics and structures, electrical safety, materials handling, fire safety, and chemicals. Human behavior and safety, procedures and training, warnings and instructions. prereq: Upper div CSE or grad student

KIN 5001 - Foundations of Human Factors/Ergonomics

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	HumF/Kin 5001
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Variability in human performance as influenced by interaction with designs of machines and tools, computers and software, complex technological systems, jobs and working conditions, organizations, and sociotechnical institutions. Emphasizes conceptual, empirical, practical aspects of human factors/ergonomic science.

ME 5113 - Aerosol/Particle Engineering

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Kinetic theory, definition, theory and measurement of particle properties, elementary particle mechanics, particle statistics; Brownian motion and diffusion, coagulation, evaporation and condensation, sampling and transport. prereq: CSE upper div or grad student

ME 5133 - Aerosol Measurement Laboratory

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Principles of aerosol measurement. Single particle analysis by optical and electron microscopy. Aerosol samplers and inertial collectors. Integral mass concentration and number concentration detectors. Size distribution by laser particle counter and differential mobility particle sizer. Aerosol generation and instrument calibration. prereq: CSE upper div or graduate student

PA 5721 - Energy Systems and Policy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Impact of energy production/consumption choices on environmental quality, sustainable development, and other economic/social goals. Emphasizes public policy choices for energy/environment, linkages between them.

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