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180.639.01
Advanced Environmental Health II

Location
East Baltimore
Note: Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, this course was held in a virtual/online format.
Term
4th Term
Department
Environmental Health and Engineering
Credit(s)
4
Academic Year
2020 - 2021
Instruction Method
Synchronous Online
Class Time(s)
Tu, Th, 8:30 - 10:20am
Auditors Allowed
No
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Contact Name
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Prerequisite

180.612.01 Advanced Environmental Health I

Description
Focuses on the foundational knowledge and methods and their application in environmental health and engineering needed by doctoral students to prepare for careers in environmental health. Frames how environmental contaminants originating from four environmental vectors, Air, Water, Soil and Food, impact human health.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
  1. Determine and apply through a team effort the interdisciplinary stakeholder groups and strategies needed to address environmental health and engineering problems
  2. Identify knowledge gaps in our understanding of how environmental hazards in combination with host factors impact health outcomes
  3. Compare and contrast specific analytic methodologies currently used in environmental health and engineering research in the context of topics covered in the course
  4. Propose both short and long-term solutions to current problems in environmental health through research, policy and the communication of the science to impacted communities
  5. Work in an interdisciplinary team to develop a grant proposal for a population based or mechanistic study of an environmental exposure through the air, water, food or soil
Methods of Assessment
This course is evaluated as follows:
  • 40% Participation
  • 40% Group Project(s)
  • 20% Group Presentation
Enrollment Restriction
Enrollment restricted to PhD students in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering