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EHS 425 - Pollution Monitoring experiments, demonstrations and ENS 210 - Natural Resource
and Control group activities for the students that Conservation
Credit Hours: 3 illustrate the principles and concepts Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisites: EHS 320 + CHE 205 for the course Pollution Monitoring Prerequisite: ENS 205
& Control.
This course is designed to provide EHS 430 - Health Risk The Natural Resources Conservation
an overview of the various sample course introduces students to
collection, analytical, and data Management world’s natural resources including
analysis techniques as they are Credit Hours: 3 water, forest, agricultural, wildlife,
related to detection and control Prerequisite: HSC 315 marine, and energy resources. Each
of pollution. The technical and resource will be discussed in terms
regulatory aspects of the handling, This course introduces students of its importance, availability, usage,
control, and management of to Health Risk Assessment and management, and effect on human
hazardous and nonhazardous wastes Management. It covers relevant and environment. Conservation
will be covered. topics such as definitions and methods and sustainability strategies
related concepts, principles will be explored and the need for
Pollution and monitoring provide a of management, assessment using recyclable resources will be
rigorous academic treatment of the procedures, risk factors, risk analyses, highlighted. It also introduces the
fundamental scientific principles and and the management of health students to the available natural
practice of assessing and controlling risk. It also highlights issues related resources in the UAE in addition to
the extent of environmental to risk management standards, current opportunities and challenges.
damage. The course emphasizes the risk management strategies at
technology and principles behind the workplace, communication and its ENS 220 - Environmental Policy
processes and techniques related impact on malpractice litigation, Credit Hours: 3
to the reduction of emissions to air, injury reduction, equitable transfer Prerequisite: ENS 205
land and water and the effects of of risk, risk retention, ethical
pollution. guidelines for risk managers, This course will give the students a
techniques for managing safety background in the policy process
The course develops understanding and security risk, recognition of and the environmental rules and
of the complex interactions of potential environmental hazards, risk regulations. It introduces students
societies and their environments, management processes, and tools. to the fundamentals of public policy,
and a critical awareness of how
these interactions are unevenly ENS 205 - Introduction to the participants and their roles. It
provides the students with the major
experienced. The course seeks to Environmental Science environmental policies regarding air,
raise student abilities to understand Credit Hours: 3 water, toxic materials and hazardous
the influence of human activities wastes. This course will stress the
on ecological system including the Prerequisites: (Co) ENG 102 / ENG
relationship between hazard and risk. 200 + (Co) FWS 100 importance of changing human
performance in ways which don’t
EHS 425L - Pollution Monitoring This course introduces students generate environmental problems.
and Control Laboratory to the principles of Environmental HSC 200 - Introduction to Health
Credit Hour: 1 Science. Management
Prerequisites: CHE 201L It presents the different ecosystems, Credit Hours: 3
Co-requisites: EHS 425 the biogeochemical cycles of some
elements like oxygen, carbon, and Prerequisite: EHS 205
This course introduces the principles nitrogen, biomes, biodiversity, and This course will introduce
and concepts of subject with the how species interaction. It discusses students to management in the
emphasis on laboratory skills and water and air pollution as well as health environment, covering
practical hands-on experiences for environmental geology and earth definitions, concepts, issues, and
the students. This course is designed resources. This course also presents the basic dimensions of health
to provide an overview of the various environmental issues, discusses care management. The course
sample collection, analytical, and solutions that help reduce such also introduces students to core
data analysis techniques related issues and provide sustainable challenges, responsibilities, and
to the detection and control of development, and emphasizes on the professional ethics in healthcare
pollution. This course will have importance of maintaining a healthy management as well as planning and
laboratory experiments, simulated environment. decision making in healthcare sector.

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