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molecules, nomenclature, bonding, by utilizing scientific explanations. EHS 206 - Environmental Health EHS 305 - Sustainability to food sanitation. It addresses health in high-risk industries,
stoichiometry, electronic structure, The topics covered are; Newtonian & Safety Management valuable knowledge about food psychosocial hazards and
mechanics, fluids, heat, vibrations, Credit Hours: 3 preparation/handling starting with workplace mental health, artificial
and molecular structures. This course electricity and magnetism, waves and Credit Hours: 3 food storage, cooking, serving, intelligence and digital technologies
contains a laboratory component to Prerequisite: HSC 210 cleaning of kitchen premises, and in occupational safety, climate
reinforce the chemical concepts. sound, light and nuclear radiation. Prerequisite: EHS 205 This course introduces the ending with waste disposal and change and worker health, process
HSC 205 - Biostatistics fundamental principles of pest control. The course provides safety management, occupational
CH201L - General Chemistry I sustainability and sustainable updated information about food exposure assessment, emergency
Laboratory Credit Hours: 3 Environmental health and safety development, emphasizing the safety practices from preparation preparedness, sustainability and
Prerequisite: STT 100 (EHS) management has become interdependence of environmental and processing to consumption. ESG in occupational health and
Credit Hour: 1 increasingly important in the past protection, social equity, It emphasizes the development, safety, safety culture, human
This course introduces students 10 years, particularly within high risk economic development, and implementation, and appraisal of factors, contractor management,
Pre or Co-requisite: CHE 205
to population health statistics. and high reliability organizations. governance. Students examine National and international food safety occupational epidemiology, and
This course introduces the principles The course covers sources and EHS is driven from the top of an global sustainability challenges, management systems such as GMP, future challenges in occupational
and concepts of chemistry with the types of data, measures of central organization, thus, this course including climate change, resource HACCP, and ISO 22000. health practice.
emphasis on laboratory skills and tendency, measures of dispersion, analyses the factors influencing EHS depletion, biodiversity loss, pollution,
practical hands-on experiences for confidence intervals, correlations and leadership and governance and urbanization, energy transition, EHS 320 - Waste Management The course emphasizes critical
the students. This course will have regressions used in public health and addresses all the areas where the and sustainable consumption Credit Hours: 3 analysis of real-world case studies,
laboratory experiments, simulated environmental health and safety. role impacts on the performance and production. The course international standards, evidence-
experiments, demonstrations, and and sustainability of organizations. explores international frameworks Prerequisite: ENS 205 based practices, and multidisciplinary
group activities for the students that This course draws on much of the such as the United Nations approaches to managing
illustrate the principles and concepts best-practice standards developed Sustainable Development Goals The Waste Management course occupational risks. Students develop
for the course CHE 205. by many leading organizations. (SDGs), environmental, social, and introduces students to the problem-solving, communication, and
Major Requirements In addition, it provides exclusive governance (ESG) principles, circular fundamentals of waste management professional decision-making skills
insights and legal imperatives for economy, corporate sustainability, with a focus on municipal solid waste. by evaluating complex occupational
practitioners and leaders to inform and sustainable public policies. It covers the technical, regulatory, health and safety challenges and
CHE 207 - Organic Chemistry decision making, strategy and EHS Through case studies and real- economic, environmental, and proposing practical solutions aligned
Credit Hours: 3 EHS 205 - Introduction to governance. world applications, students public health aspects of waste with national and international best
handling, collection, transportation,
practices.
Environmental Health & Safety EHS 210 - develop an understanding
Prerequisites: CHE 205 + CHE 201L separation, recycling, composting,
Credit Hours: 3 of sustainability strategies in and incineration. It also discusses
This is an introductory course that Environmental Microbiology organizations, communities, and the design, construction, and
focuses on the basic aspects of Co-requisites: (Co) ENG 102/ENG 200 Credit Hours: 3 industries. The course highlights management of landfills and the EHS 400 - Toxicology
Organic Chemistry. This course the role of innovation, technology, creation of energy and high-value Credit Hours: 3
helps the students to promote an This course will introduce students to Prerequisite: BIO 205 environmental stewardship, and materials from waste.
understanding of the importance of Environmental Health and Safety, its ethical decision-making in achieving Prerequisite: BIO 205
Organic Chemistry and its relevance definitions its concepts, issues and The course aims to introduce sustainable development while
in Health Science and Nutrition. attributes. The course introduces students to the field of environmental preparing students to contribute to This course examines basic concepts
Laboratory experiments related students to core environmental microbiology, which is the study sustainable solutions within their EHS 330 - Special Topics in as they apply to environmental
to various functional groups and Health and Safety topics including of microorganisms in natural professional disciplines. Occupational Health & Safety toxicology. Discusses distribution,
Qualitative analysis are included in world population, air and water environments such as soil, water cellular penetration, metabolic
the course which can contribute quality, water conservation, and air. Topics will include an Credit Hours: 3 conversion, and elimination
towards the development of Scientific community health and safety, introduction to the main groups of Prerequisite: HSC305 of toxic agents, as well as the
Skills. occupational health and safety, and microorganisms and their physiology, EHS 310 - Food Safety & fundamental laws governing the
environmental health and safety factors affecting microbial survival, Management This course explores contemporary interaction of foreign chemicals with
statistics. microbial ecology, microorganisms and emerging issues in occupational biological systems. Focuses on the
of public health significance from Credit Hours: 3 health and safety that are shaping application of these concepts to the
PYH 100 - The Physics of environmental exposures and Prerequisite: HSC 210 modern workplaces and influencing understanding and prevention of
Everyday Life their mechanisms of pathogenicity. occupational risk management mortality and morbidity resulting
Standard analytical techniques The Food Safety and Management practices worldwide. Students from environmental exposure to toxic
Credit Hours: 3 concerning microbiological course is intended to give a broad examine selected special topics substances.
Prerequisites: (Co)ENG 102/ENG 200 laboratory procedures such as overview of the principles of food based on current industry trends,
sample preparation, aseptic sanitation and management. It technological advancements,
This is an introductory physics techniques, enumeration and covers various sources of food regulatory developments, and
course based on simple algebra and isolation of microorganisms will be contamination highlighting the emerging occupational hazards.
trigonometry aiming to link physics introduced. relationship of microorganisms Topics may include occupational
concepts to everyday life experiences

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