EOH Course Descriptions
EOH 1200 Introduction to Risk Assessment Credits 3.0
Prerequisites(s): Chem 0110, BIOSC 0150, MATH 0220, STAT 0200
This course will explore issues surrounding environmental and occupational risks with focus on adverse human health effect. It will provide an overview including risk assessment, risk perception, communications, and management.
EOH 2012 Health, Disease & Environment 2 Credits 1.0
This section is part 2 of Health, Disease and Environment. It is designed to introduce the students to knowledge basic to public health focusing on chemical and physical environmental factors affecting the health of the community. The major topics include exposure to toxic substances in the community and at work and hazards to health associated with water, air hazardous waste and radiation.
EOH 2013 Environmental Health and Disease Credits 3.0
Cross listed with EOH 2012 Health, Disease, and Environment
The world health organization defines environmental health as “those aspects of human health, including qualities of life that are determined by physical, biological, social, and psychosocial factors in the environment.” The discipline of environmental and occupation health refers to the “theory and practice of assessing, correcting, controlling, and preventing those factors in the environment that can adversely affect the health of present and future generations.” This course will familiarize the students with current issues and practice in environmental and occupational health, as well as assessment of the risk of environmental exposures. It is designed to introduce the students to knowledge basic to public health focusing on chemical and physical environmental factors affecting the health of the community.
EOH 2021 Special Studies Credits 1.0-15.0
Properly qualified students may undertake advanced study under the guidance of a faculty member.
EOH 2022 Special Topics Credits 1.0-3.0
Properly qualified students may undertake advanced study under the guidance of a faculty member
EOH 2101 Introduction to Research Methods I Credits 1.0
Co-requisite EOH 2102
This two semester course will introduce the basic skills required to conduct independent research in the health sciences. During the first semester emphasis will be placed on: critical review of literature, notebook keeping, exploratory data analysis, and use of the University library and database resources.
EOH 2102 Introduction to Research Methods II Credits 1.0
Co-requisite EOH 2101
This two semester course will introduce the basic skills required to conduct independent research in the health sciences. During the second semester emphasis will be placed on written and oral communication skills and development of research projects.
EOH 2104 Introduction to Envrl & Occ Health Law Credits 3.0
This course is designed to introduce students to law as it relates to environmental disputes, including relevant occupational law. General overview of the structure and operation of the legal system, I.E., litigation. Majority of course will cover major federal and state statutes designed to protect the environment. Our study of these statutes will focus on the various approaches, strategies, standards and enforcement mechanisms. Coursework consists of lecture, reading and class discussion. There are no prerequisites.
EOH 2106 Environmental and Occupational Health Law Credits 2.0
Designed to familiarize students with the legal aspects that govern environmental and occupational health at federal and state levels. Interpretation of the acts and laws by the courts is discussed by reference to specific cases.
EOH 2107 Envrl & Occ Health Colloquium Credits 0.0
Presentations and discussions of topics of current interest in the field of industrial environmental health sciences are covered, with participation by faculty, students and invited guest speakers.
EOH 2108 Environmental and Occupational Health Practicum Credits 2.0
Designed to provide an opportunity for each EOH/Risk Assessment MPH student to demonstrate integration and application of knowledge in an area of environmental and occupational health through a culminating experience. The form of this experience is a faculty-supervised, applied research or problem solving project with a public health organization.
EOH 2109 Molecular Toxicology Journal Club Credits 1.0
This course is for students to gain experience in the presentation and discussion of topics of current interest in the fields of industrial and environmental health sciences and toxicology. The format is one hour weekly journal club presented by the students. Our goals are to expose students to the most exciting research our field of interest. Secondly, to provide a forum to hone skills in organizing and presenting scientific data, as well as critically discussing published work.
EOH 2110 Rotation Practicum Credits 2.0
Designed for the PhD student to be a practical research experience. Student will gain research experience within laboratories of faculty within the Molecular Training Program. It will prepare students in the development of critical laboratory-based research skills including wet-lab, hands-on experimentation and literature-based research into specific areas of relevance.
EOH 2111 Env Occ Prog Pract Proc Credits 2.0
The major aim of this course is to acquaint students with current environmental and occupational health programs and environmental and industrial practices and processes through lectures and field trips to selected industrial and governmental facilities and operations. Lectures and reviews and given before and after the field visits and emphasize operational, preventions and control strategies.
EOH 2120 Chemical Physical and Biological Agents 1 Credits 2.0
This course sequence addresses the nature, sources and behavior of chemical, physical, and biological agents in the context of potential environmental and occupational human exposures that may adversely affect human health. The aim of the course is to prepare the student to understand and relate the sources and emissions of such agents to the pathways of exposure that result in contact with the human receptor.
EOH 2121 Chemical Physical and Biological Agents 2 Credits 1.0
This course addresses the nature, sources and behavior of chemical physical and biological agents in the context of potential environmental and occupational human exposures that may adversely affect human health. The aim of the course is to prepare the student to understand and relate the sources and emissions of such agents to the pathways of exposure that result in contact with the human receptors.
EOH 2122 Transport and Fate of Environmental Agents Credits 3.0
Prerequisite: EOH 2121
This course presents in a quantitative fashion the movement, transformation, bioaccumulation, and fate of various physical, biological and chemical agents throughout the environment, home and occupational settings. Chemical degradation, atmospheric transport, surface and groundwater sediments, and concentration by biological systems are described, including movement through food chains; also indoor transport and ventilation.
EOH 2130 Survey of Radiation Health Credits 2.0
A descriptive, nonmathematical overview of the physical characteristics of ionizing radiations, their biological effects, and the methods by which protection of radiation workers and the general public is achieved.
EOH 2175 Principles of Toxicology Credits 3.0
Prerequisite: EOH 2175
This course will introduce students to the principles governing the interaction of chemicals within the human body. Major organ systems will be described with regard to anatomy, physiology and effects from interactions with chemical.
EOH 2176 Principles of Toxicology Conference Credits 2.0
This is a two credit course designed as an in-depth exploration of some the fundamental principles of toxicology. It is meant to accompany the material contained in the more didactic EOH 2175. Previous of concurrent enrollment in EOH 2175 is required for enrollment. It will also be of interest to any students interested in cellular and molecular aspects of toxicology. Its intent is to further explore a number of the concepts introduce in EOH 2175 at the molecular level and provide information critical to the practice of toxicology.
EOH 2180 Introduction to Risk Sciences Credits 1.0
Prerequisites: EOH 2175; Epid 2110; Bios 2041
Course will explore issues surrounding environmental and occupational risks with focus on adverse human health effects. Will provide overview of risk sciences including: risk assessment, risk perception, risk communication and risk management., Detailed attention to methods for qualitative and quantitative approaches for risk assessment will consider methods for assessment of cancer and non-cancer health risks using four step paradigm by national academy of sciences.
EOH 2181 Risk Assessment Practicum Credits 2.0
Prerequisite EOH 2180
Practicum will provide the student opportunity to conduct a quantitative risk assessment for human health endpoint (either cancer or non-cancer) from an environmental or occupational exposure students will learn to identify human health hazards characterize does response relationships and site and mechanisms of action, conduct an exposure characterization and use that data to characterize risks to human health.
EOH 2301 Analtical Meth Molec Dosimetry Credits 3.0
Prerequisite EOH 2121; EOH 2171
Principles and application of concentration, analysis and identification of xenobiotics, their metabolites and macro-molecular adducts at ultratrace level from biological matrice. Emphasis on methods which lead to identifying chemicals at molecular level, including gas, liquid and affinity chromatographies and various types mass spectrometry. Use of vibronic/electronic techniques such as raman and fluorescence spectroscopies, also discussed. Related methodology in literature which is current with each offering.
EOH 2302 Molecular approaches to Toxicology Credits 2.0
Prerequisites EOH 2171; Hugen 2030
This course is designed to introduce students to recent advances in field molecular toxicology. A basic foundation in genetics and tools of biotechnology will first be developed. Recent examples of innovation approaches used to study toxic agents at molecular level will then be described. Progress in the research of DNA/Protein adducts, xenobiotic metabolism and characterization of oncogenes will also be discussed.
EOH 2303 Applc Molec Biol Meth of Toxicology Credits 2.0
Prerequisites EOH 2302 Hugen 2030
This course is designed to introduce students to the techniques frequently used in a molecular biology laboratory, and to analyze and interpret data of experiments. This course will be taught as a series of lab training experiments and discussions.
EOH 2304 Biomarkers and Molecular Epid Credits 2.0
Prerequisites Epid 2110; Epid 2600 EOH 2371 Hugen 2017
Elective course summarized the concepts and biological principles underlying bases molecular biomarkers; provide students with understanding methodological principles of use; biomarkers epidemiologic research relevant to study of chronic human disease and public health application; summarize present use specific biomarkers in epidemiologic and clinical research with examples in human cancer, cardiovascular, immunological, and neurological diseases.
EOH 2305 Mechanisms DNA Metab Dmg Repair Credits 3.0
Prerequisites EOH 2371; Hugen 2017
Mechanisms and consequences of somatic and hereditary genetic damage, including method to detect characterize and quantitate genetic lesions. Provides molecular and theoretical basis for evaluation on genotoxicological data on exposure to mutagenetic/carcinogenic agents and on genetic predisposition or susceptibility to disease.
EOH 2306 Biochem Tech in Molec Toxicology Credits 2.0
Prerequisites EOH 2371; EOH 2101; EOH 2102
The objectives of the course are to introduce EOH students to major instrumental biochemical laboratory techniques and to provide a foundation for understanding how specific problems in molecular toxicology can be experimentally addressed using biochemical methods. The course will be taught as a series of sessions including theoretical introduction, lab experiments and discussions.
EOH 2308 Model Systems Credits 2.0
This course will examine how basic principles of cell and molecular biology can be applied to address problems in Environmental and Occupational Health. Students will gain an understanding of state of the art approaches to address problems in Environmental and Occupational Health through basic science research.
EOH 2309 Bioorganic Toxicology Credits 2.0
The organic, inorganic and mechanistic biochemical details of interactions of toxins and biological systems will be presented. Emphasis on chemical understanding of potential toxicological sequelae of such interactions. Students present one lecture on bioorganic toxicological topic synthesized from recent scientific literature.
EOH 2310 Molecular Fundamentals Credits 2.0
Course is designed to be a review of the fundamental of biochemistry, molecular biology, and cell biology. It will be taught in the first semester for PHD students and the first or third semester for MPH students. Students will be expected to have a solid undergraduate background in biology. There is significant time devoted to techniques, with the goal of providing background for PhD students beginning their research careers.and a perspective for MPH students on the availability and utility of modern biological research methods.
EOH 2311 Molecular Fundamentals Conference Credits 2.0
This course will consist of reviewing papers from top journals, each paper has been selected to illustrate topics covered in the lecture of the week. In addition to enhancing the understanding of material, the conference will teach students how to read and evaluate papers. Each student will be responsible for explaining all of the figures in the paper, one student per week will provide an introduction. It is required for EOH PhD students and open to PhD students in other disciplines. Master’s level students will be admitted only with permission of instructor.
EOH 2312 Cellular Mechanisms in Environmental Toxicology Credits 2.0
The course is designed to introduce the concepts and basic principles of toxicant action as they relate to activation of cell-signaling mechanisms related to the development of human disease. The course is structured to provide didactic lectures on current understanding of mechanisms for responses to environmental toxicants and infectious agents, as well as discussion of cutting edge research discoveries.
EOH 2313 Bioinorganic Toxicology Credits 2.0
The student will learn to think of biochemical processes in terms of properly balanced chemical equations, stressing the interdependency of many competing reactions. By the end of the course, it is expected that the student will confidently delve into much of the bioinorganic literature and be able to recognize when the authors of research papers have real insight rather than presenting tautological arguments.
EOH 2314 Pulmonary and Organ Systems Toxicology Credits 2.0
This course is designed to be an overview of the fundamentals of Organ Systems Toxicology with an emphasis on mechanisms of cellular toxicology within the lung. A significant amount of time will be devoted to the cellular and biochemical aspects of tissue damage resulting form toxicant exposure. Student will gain skills in the areas of data analysis and presentation of work.
EOH 2371 Cellular & Molecular Toxicology Credits 2.0
The course is an introduction to cellular and molecular mechanisms in toxicology, designed to provide a foundation in chemical and macromolecular level events in cells exposed to chemical and physical agents. The cells response to these insults is examined from a mechanistic approach including mechanisms of recovery, repair and biochemical defenses. New techniques of molecular biology will be used to examine toxicological mechanisms.
EOH 2504 Principles of Envrl Exposure Credits 3.0
This course induces concepts inherent in recognition of sources, contaminant generation, transport and uptake of chemical, biological and physical stresses in the context of potential environmental exposures related to human health. This course prepares students to understand exposure assessment in exposures related to human health. This course prepares students to understand exposure assessment in anticipation, recognition, evaluation and intervention as utilized in risk assessment and composition of matter, exposure pathways, pathway assessment methods including measurement, analogy and exposure mater modeling.
EOH 2505 Intro to Occ and Envrl Health Credits 3.0
Provides an introduction and overview of occupational and environmental health. Industrial and environmental exposures are introduced with a brief discussion of their physical/chemical characteristics, followed by a discussion of mechanisms of exposures, monitoring and sampling techniques, major health and safety implications and mechanisms of control. The course consists of didactic presentations, laboratory exercise, field trips and discussions of case studies.
EOH 2509 Noise Assessment and Reduction Credits 2.0
The basic physical principles of noise measurement and reduction are systematically developed. Topics include noise regulations, damage risk criteria, design of resistive and reactive mufflers, transmission through structures, architectural acoustics, and vibration isolation.
EOH 2510 Intro to Occupational Medicine Credits 3.0
Designed primarily for physicians to provide an overview of the practice of occupational medicine, including the principles of prevention, and a system by system review and case study approach of occupational illnesses and disorders, specifically their recognition and control. As a prerequisite, the physicians should be familiar with the basic concepts of toxicology & industrial hygiene as well as current applicable regulations., This course will provide the framework for more specific and advanced occupational health graduate courses leading to an MPH , DRPH or PHD degree.
EOH 2512 Issues in Occupational Medicine Credits 3.0
Designed primarily for physicians, this course will provide a population-based approach to the prevention and management of illness, injury and disability in the workplace.
EOH 2513 Issues in Bioterrorism Credits 2.0
This classroom/ITV graduate course is a multidisciplinary approach to government policies, science, public health policy and practice and understanding terrorism using biological, pathogens, it comprises: history origins, motivations and techniques used by terrorists, preparedness, detection, treatment and response during the pre, trans, and post attack times. Local state and federal government policies and programs and legal, mental health and policy issues includes case studies, lecture, discussion writing assignments, and a 4-8 hours decision-making simulation.
EOH 2515 Environ & Occuptnl Health Preparedness Credits 2.0
This course will be a graduate level course focusing on environmental health hazard with respect to disaster preparation, didactic and experimental aspects of course will include core principles of environmental health safety, Students will examine challenges with respect to natural and man-made disasters to allow student to prepare programs to handle environmental health emergencies.
EOH 2563 Ergonomics and Occuptnl Biomechnc Credits 3.0
The framework for understanding the anatomical and physiological demands place on industrial workers developed. Intervention strategies are discussed so that the risk to health and safety can be minimized while enhancing productivity.
EOH 2567 Industrial Safety Credits 2.0
Introduces the student in industrial hygiene to the occupational safety procedures required by the occupational safety and health act of 1970. Examples of the methods of job safety analysis will be shown.
EOH 2716 Regltn, Hlth, Safety & Envrl Risks Credits 3.0
Teaches students some of the skills needed to understand and appraise public policies for regulation health and safety risks, Focus is on PSHA,EPA and other federal safety and health requlatory agencies.
EOH 2720 Applied Computational Toxicology 1 Credits 3.0
The course will introduce the principles and techniques of biomolecular modeling, including pharmacological and toxicological applications, Lectures will discuss pertinent aspects of chemistry, proteins and their ligands based on chemistry and physics; however, statistical modeling (Qsar Quantitative structure-activity relationships) will also be reviewed.
EOH 2725 Applied Computational Toxicology 2 Credits 3.0
Advanced modeling models such as expert systems, artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms and their application to toxicological quantitative structure activity relationships (QSAR) will be discussed. Advanced techniques in three-dimensional molecular modeling of small molecules, proteins and DNA will also be discussed. A series of lectures by recognized experts in each of the fields will be presented during the course.
EOH 2727 Cmptl Modeling Toxicological Research Credits 3.0
Students are presented with the rationale and theory behind each of the model-building processes and are given out-of-class assignments to learn operational aspects. A project using data of the student’s choice contributes to the final grade.
EOH 2731 Intro Hlth Aspects Water Quality Credits 2.0
Course deals with the history, nature, (microbiological, chemical, and physical), and control of water-borne disease. The major aim of this course is to acquaint students with fundamentals of environmental biological analysis, with emphasis on human health. The major topics covered included: aquatic biology, parasitology, and medical entomology.
EOH 2753 Industrial Environmental Health Biology Credits 3.0
The major aim of this course is to acquaint students with fundamentals of environmental biological analysis, with emphasis on human health. The major topics covered included: aquatic biology, parasitology and medical entomology.
EOH 2778 Respiratory Physiology Credits 3.0
Deals with control mechanisms of respiration, mechanical properties of the lung, distribution of ventilation and transport. The modification of basic physiological mechanisms as a result of exposure to industrial contaminants and loss of lung function will be included.