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and offers students supervised Bachelor of emphasis on laboratory skills and statistics. as a base for an introductory-level also introduces students to core
experience in this field to develop practical hands-on experiences for understanding of the field. This challenges, responsibilities, and
setting. The duration of the internship Science in Public laboratory experiments, simulated Environmental Science multidisciplinary perspectives management as well as planning and
practical skills in a professional the students. This course will have ENS 205 - Introduction to course emphasizes the diverse, professional ethics in healthcare
is 6 weeks with a lab rotation every 2 experiments, demonstrations and Credit Hours: 3 on public health. It introduces decision making in healthcare sector.
weeks to maximize students’ learning Health group activities for the students that core disciplines of public health:
and technical skills in clinical setting illustrate the principles and concepts Pre or Co-requisites: (Co) ENG 102 / prevention, protection and assurance. HSC 201 - Determinants of
related to molecular and medical for the course BIO 205. ENG 200 + (Co) FWS 100 Public Health
genetics. A central part of this course This course introduces students HSC 210 - Epidemiology & Credit Hours: 3
is the placement portfolio, which Degree Requirements CHE 205 - General Chemistry I to the principles of Environmental Population Health
must be completed and approved Credit Hours: 3 Science. It presents the different Credit Hours: 3 Prerequisites: ENS 205
by the training institution preceptor Pre or Co-requisites: (Co) ENG 102 / ecosystems, the biogeochemical Prerequisite: HSC 205 This course will introduce students
and the lab placement coordinator at ENG 200 cycles of some elements like oxygen, to different public health paradigms,
ADU. Students’ performance will be ASC 301 - Research Report carbon, and nitrogen, biomes, This course introduces students including the biomedical, behavioral,
assessed via end-of-rotation reports, This course introduces the biodiversity, and how species to the scientific discipline of and holistic, ecological, salutogenic
end-of-placement oral presentation, Writing principles and concepts of interaction. It discusses water and epidemiology. It covers definitions paradigms. Various models of
along with clinical preceptor and Credit Hours: 3 chemistry with emphasis on atoms, air pollution as well as environmental and concepts of epidemiology public health determinants within
placement coordinator evaluations. Prerequisite: STT 100 molecules, nomenclature, bonding, geology and earth resources. This together with the principles and the holistic, ecological, salutogenic
Students will have full orientation This course will focus on research stoichiometry, electronic structure course also presents environmental tools of epidemiology. The course paradigm and the One Health
prior to the placement about the writing skills, which include locating, and molecular structures. This course issues, discusses solutions that help includes measuring the frequency of Approach are explored. The course
manual, the learning objectives, the gathering, and evaluating source contains a laboratory component to reduce such issues and provide health issues, measuring risk and the then examines specific determinants
code of conduct, the rotations’ plan, materials; formulating a thesis reinforce the chemical concepts. sustainable development, and burden of disease. Epidemiological of public health including biological
and the modes of assessment. statement from a topic and/or a CHE201L - General Chemistry I emphasizes on the importance of study designs are explored, factors, socioeconomic factors,
HMG 44911 - Human Genetics hypothesis; developing arguments Laboratory maintaining a healthy environment. including descriptive, analytical and cognitive and affective factors, health
intervention studies. Survey research,
Research Report based on solid research methods; Credit Hours: 3 HSC 305 - Occupational Health as a methodology that can be behaviors, and conditions within
social, economic, political, natural
and documenting sources in the text,
Credit Hours: 3 in notes, and in the bibliography. Pre or Co-requisites: CHE 205 and Safety used across many study designs, is and built environments and their
Prerequisite: HMG 44910 Students will also work extensively on This course introduces the principles Credit Hours: 3 addressed. Issues related to weighing interactions.
their academic and argumentative up the evidence from such studies
The course comprises an original and concepts of chemistry with the Prerequisite: HSC 200 and ethical issues in epidemiology are PBH 300 - Health Sociology
research project in biomedical writing skills to produce high quality emphasis on laboratory skills and explored. Credit Hours: 3
research papers.
science and a research project practical hands-on experiences for The Occupational Health and Safety
report. Training in knowledge and the students. This course will have course describes the importance HSC 205 - Biostatistics Prerequisite: HSC 201
practical skills are a fundamental laboratory experiments, simulated of health and safety at work place Credit Hours: 3 Co-requisite: PBH 310
in biomedical and health sciences, Major Requirements experiments, demonstrations and and its socio-economic impact on Prerequisite: STT 100
however, effective writing in medical group activities for the students that work place and workers. It gives This course focuses on the
science is the foundation method illustrate the principles and concepts students the tools and skills to ensure This course introduces students contribution of social and behavioral
by which such efforts are recorded BIO 205 - General Biology I for the course CHE 205. health and safety measures within to population health statistics. sciences to the understanding of the
and needs to be delivered alongside EHS 205 - Introduction to a working environment including The course covers sources and distribution, etiology, and solution
knowledge and practical skills in Credit Hours: 3 Environmental Health & Safety hazard identification and control, types of data, measures of central of public health problems. The
healthcare education. Furthermore, Pre or Co-requisites: (Co) ENG 102/ accident prevention and investigation, tendency, measures of dispersion, theoretical underpinnings of the
research activities are key in judging ENG 200 Credit Hours: 3 conducting safety trainings, and confidence intervals, correlations and most relevant explanation, planning,
the success of a degree program, Co-requisites: (Co) ENG 102/ENG 200 emergency planning. It also provides regressions used in public health and change, and evaluation theories will
as it is not merely a regurgitation of This course introduces the principles + (Co) FWS 100 students with an in-depth idea environmental health and safety. be reviewed in depth and illustrated
didactic learning but a demonstration and concepts of biology with the about the national and international with examples of the application of
of synthesis and application of that emphasis on the cell and its metabolic This course will introduce students occupational health and safety HSC 200 - Introduction to Health these models to health promotion
knowledge. Negative results are as activity, genetics and inheritance in to Environmental Health and organizations. Management and disease prevention with
useful as positive, and the ability living organism. Safety, its definitions its concepts, PBH 101 - Introduction to Public Credit Hours: 3 individuals, groups, and communities.
to reflect and show learning from BIO 205L - General Biology I issues and attributes. The course Health
failed experiments will be a major Laboratory introduces students to core Prerequisites: EHS 205 PBH 310 - Principles of Health
benchmark outcome in the report environmental Health and Safety Credit Hours: 3 This course will introduce Promotion
Credit Hours: 3 topics including world population, air Prerequisite: (Co) ENG 102/ENG 200 students to management in the Credit Hours: 3
Pre or Co-requisites: BIO 205 and water quality, water conservation, + (Co) FWS 100 health environment, covering
community health and safety, definitions, concepts, issues, and Prerequisite: HSC 201
This course introduces the principles This course addresses a variety of
and concepts of biology with the occupational health and safety, and the basic dimensions of health This course provides students with
environmental health and safety themes in public health which serve care management. The course an understanding of the history,

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