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EHS 425 - Pollution Monitoring experiments, demonstrations and ENS 210 - Natural Resource HSC 201 - Determinants of to weighing up the evidence from
and Control group activities for the students that Conservation Public Health such studies and ethical issues in Research, Placements
Credit Hours: 3 illustrate the principles and concepts Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours: 3 epidemiology are explored.
Prerequisites: EHS 320 + CHE 205 for the course Pollution Monitoring Prerequisite: ENS 205 Prerequisite: ENS 205 HSC 305 - Occupational Health and Electives
& Control.
This course is designed to provide EHS 430 - Health Risk The Natural Resources Conservation This course will introduce students and Safety
an overview of the various sample course introduces students to to different public health paradigms, Credit Hours: 3 HSC 410 - Healthcare Research
collection, analytical, and data Management world’s natural resources including including the biomedical, behavioral, Prerequisite: HSC 200 Methodology
analysis techniques as they are Credit Hours: 3 water, forest, agricultural, wildlife, and holistic, ecological, salutogenic Credit Hours: 3
related to detection and control Prerequisite: HSC 315 marine, and energy resources. Each paradigms. Various models of The Occupational Health and Safety Prerequisite: HSC 205
of pollution. The technical and resource will be discussed in terms public health determinants within course describes the importance of
regulatory aspects of the handling, This course introduces students of its importance, availability, usage, the holistic, ecological, salutogenic health and safety at work place and This course is involved with
control, and management of to Health Risk Assessment and management, and effect on human paradigm and the One Health its socio-economic impact on work understanding basic principles
hazardous and nonhazardous wastes Management. It covers relevant and environment. Conservation approach are explored. The course place and workers. It gives students of research techniques and
will be covered. topics such as definitions and methods and sustainability strategies then examines specific determinants the tools and skills to ensure health methodologies as applied to
related concepts, principles will be explored and the need for of public health including biological and safety measures within a working healthcare professions. The purpose
Pollution and monitoring provide a of management, assessment using recyclable resources will be factors, socioeconomic factors, environment including hazard of this course is to further develop
rigorous academic treatment of the procedures, risk factors, risk analyses, highlighted. It also introduces the cognitive and affective factors, health identification and control, accident research, critical analysis, and
fundamental scientific principles and and the management of health students to the available natural behaviors, and conditions within prevention and investigation, communication skills.The major
practice of assessing and controlling risk. It also highlights issues related resources in the UAE in addition to social, economic, political, natural conducting safety trainings, and components of this course are
the extent of environmental to risk management standards, current opportunities and challenges. and built environments and their emergency planning. It also provides understanding research purpose
damage. The course emphasizes the risk management strategies at interactions. students with an in-depth idea and methodology; developing a
technology and principles behind the workplace, communication and its ENS 220 - Environmental Policy about the national and international research proposal; critical review
processes and techniques related impact on malpractice litigation, Credit Hours: 3 HSC 205 - Biostatistics occupational health and safety of the literature and information
to the reduction of emissions to air, injury reduction, equitable transfer Prerequisite: ENS 205 Credit Hours: 3 organizations. resources; comprehending the role
land and water and the effects of of risk, risk retention, ethical Prerequisite: STT 100 of ethics in health sciences research;
pollution. guidelines for risk managers, This course will give the students a HSC 315 - Global Issues in and introducing different quantitative
techniques for managing safety background in the policy process This course introduces students Environmental Health
The course develops understanding and security risk, recognition of and the environmental rules and to population health statistics. Credit Hours: 3 and qualitative healthcare research
of the complex interactions of potential environmental hazards, risk regulations. It introduces students The course covers sources and methods. The course will also enable
societies and their environments, management processes, and tools. to the fundamentals of public policy, types of data, measures of central Prerequisite: EHS 205 the students to develop different
and a critical awareness of how This course is an introduction to the data collection tools and different
these interactions are unevenly ENS 205 - Introduction to the participants and their roles. It tendency, measures of dispersion, global applications of environmental sampling designs and techniques.
provides the students with the major
confidence intervals, correlations and
experienced. The course seeks to Environmental Science environmental policies regarding air, regressions used in public health and health and safety theory. It covers EHS 499 - Undergraduate
raise student abilities to understand Credit Hours: 3 water, toxic materials and hazardous environmental health and safety. a wide range of globally-relevant Research
the influence of human activities wastes. This course will stress the environmental health issues,
on ecological system including the Prerequisites: (Co) ENG 102 / ENG HSC 210 - Epidemiology and including access to water, clean Credit Hours: 4
relationship between hazard and risk. 200 + (Co) FWS 100 importance of changing human Population Health air, and energy. It also covers the Prerequisite: 90 Credit Hours
performance in ways which don’t
EHS 425L - Pollution Monitoring This course introduces students generate environmental problems. Credit Hours: 3 globally-relevant theoretical issues The Undergraduate Research course
and Control Laboratory to the principles of Environmental HSC 200 - Introduction to Health Prerequisite: HSC 205 of environmental health ethics and is a senior level component of the
Credit Hour: 1 Science. Management This course introduces students environmental justice. Through the EHS program that gives students the
analysis of theory and practice, this
opportunity to participate in real-life
Prerequisites: CHE 201L It presents the different ecosystems, Credit Hours: 3 to the scientific discipline of course looks at the global impacts EHS topics/issues. It is a research-
Co-requisites: EHS 425 the biogeochemical cycles of some epidemiology. It covers definitions of environmental health and safety directed work intended to advance a
elements like oxygen, carbon, and Prerequisite: EHS 205 and concepts of epidemiology particularly in crisis situations,
This course introduces the principles nitrogen, biomes, biodiversity, and This course will introduce together with the principles and whether these are man-made crises student’s interest in a topic or issue
and concepts of subject with the how species interaction. It discusses students to management in the tools of epidemiology. The course (pollution of food & water sources) or related to EHS.
emphasis on laboratory skills and water and air pollution as well as health environment, covering includes measuring the frequency natural disasters. Under the supervision of a faculty
practical hands-on experiences for environmental geology and earth definitions, concepts, issues, and of health issues, measuring member, students will be engaged
the students. This course is designed resources. This course also presents the basic dimensions of health risk and the burden of disease. in specific tasks revolving around a
to provide an overview of the various environmental issues, discusses care management. The course Epidemiological study designs are research question and focusing on
sample collection, analytical, and solutions that help reduce such also introduces students to core explored, including descriptive, applying research methodology/
data analysis techniques related issues and provide sustainable challenges, responsibilities, and analytical and intervention studies. design to problems in EHS via
to the detection and control of development, and emphasizes on the professional ethics in healthcare Survey research, as a methodology data and information collection,
pollution. This course will have importance of maintaining a healthy management as well as planning and that can be used across many study determining and reviewing relevant
laboratory experiments, simulated environment. decision making in healthcare sector. designs, is addressed. Issues related sources, conducting logical, critical,

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