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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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