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HSC 201 - Determinants of to weighing up the evidence from
Public Health such studies and ethical issues in Research, Placements
Credit Hours: 3 epidemiology are explored.
Prerequisite: ENS 205 HSC 305 - Occupational Health and Electives
This course will introduce students and Safety
to different public health paradigms, Credit Hours: 3 HSC 410 - Healthcare Research
including the biomedical, behavioral, Prerequisite: HSC 200 Methodology
and holistic, ecological, salutogenic Credit Hours: 3
paradigms. Various models of The Occupational Health and Safety Prerequisite: HSC 205
public health determinants within course describes the importance of
the holistic, ecological, salutogenic health and safety at work place and This course is involved with
paradigm and the One Health its socio-economic impact on work understanding basic principles
approach are explored. The course place and workers. It gives students of research techniques and
then examines specific determinants the tools and skills to ensure health methodologies as applied to
of public health including biological and safety measures within a working healthcare professions. The purpose
factors, socioeconomic factors, environment including hazard of this course is to further develop
cognitive and affective factors, health identification and control, accident research, critical analysis, and
behaviors, and conditions within prevention and investigation, communication skills.The major
social, economic, political, natural conducting safety trainings, and components of this course are
and built environments and their emergency planning. It also provides understanding research purpose
interactions. students with an in-depth idea and methodology; developing a
about the national and international research proposal; critical review
HSC 205 - Biostatistics occupational health and safety of the literature and information
Credit Hours: 3 organizations. resources; comprehending the role
Prerequisite: STT 100 HSC 315 - Global Issues in of ethics in health sciences research;
This course introduces students Environmental Health and introducing different quantitative
and qualitative healthcare research
to population health statistics. Credit Hours: 3 methods. The course will also enable
The course covers sources and Prerequisite: EHS 205 the students to develop different
types of data, measures of central data collection tools and different
tendency, measures of dispersion, This course is an introduction to the sampling designs and techniques.
confidence intervals, correlations and global applications of environmental
regressions used in public health and health and safety theory. It covers EHS 499 - Undergraduate
environmental health and safety. a wide range of globally-relevant Research
environmental health issues, Credit Hours: 4
HSC 210 - Epidemiology and including access to water, clean
Population Health air, and energy. It also covers the Prerequisite: 90 Credit Hours
Credit Hours: 3 globally-relevant theoretical issues The Undergraduate Research course
Prerequisite: HSC 205 of environmental health ethics and is a senior level component of the
environmental justice. Through the EHS program that gives students the
This course introduces students analysis of theory and practice, this opportunity to participate in real-life
to the scientific discipline of course looks at the global impacts EHS topics/issues. It is a research-
epidemiology. It covers definitions of environmental health and safety directed work intended to advance a
and concepts of epidemiology particularly in crisis situations, student’s interest in a topic or issue
together with the principles and whether these are man-made crises related to EHS.
tools of epidemiology. The course (pollution of food & water sources) or
includes measuring the frequency natural disasters. Under the supervision of a faculty
of health issues, measuring member, students will be engaged
risk and the burden of disease. in specific tasks revolving around a
Epidemiological study designs are research question and focusing on
explored, including descriptive, applying research methodology/
analytical and intervention studies. design to problems in EHS via
Survey research, as a methodology data and information collection,
that can be used across many study determining and reviewing relevant
designs, is addressed. Issues related sources, conducting logical, critical,

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