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EHS 420 - Hazardous Materials EHS 424 - Quality and Control of EHS 435L - Environmental ENS 205 - Introduction to HSC 305 - Occupational Health
Credit Hours: 3 Water and Air Pollution Monitoring & Control Lab Environmental Science and Safety Research, Placements
Prerequisite: HSC 305 Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hour: 1 Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours: 3 and Electives
This course is designed to equip Prerequisites: EHS 415 Co-requisites: (Co)EHS424 + (Co) Prerequisites: (Co) ENG 102 / ENG Prerequisite: HSC 200
students with the knowledge The course will introduce the EHS435 200 + (Co) FWS 100 The Occupational Health and Safety HSC 410 - Healthcare Research
to recognize and safely handle atmosphere and the hydrological This laboratory course provides This course introduces students course describes the importance of Methodology
hazardous substances, whether cycle and define the natural aquatic practical training in environmental to the principles of Environmental health and safety at work place and
in controlled (laboratory) settings, environment. It discusses the value monitoring techniques and pollution Science. its socio-economic impact on work Credit Hours: 3
or as the result of an accident or of meteorology and its part in air control methods. Students develop place and workers. It gives students
unforeseen incident. It includes a quality. Also, it will explain the primary hands-on skills in sampling, It presents the different ecosystems, the tools and skills to ensure health Prerequisite: HSC 205
discussion of hazardous materials types of air pollutants, their sources, measurement, analysis, and the biogeochemical cycles of some and safety measures within a working This course is involved with
commonly found in industrial, and their effects on human being interpretation of environmental elements like oxygen, carbon, and environment including hazard understanding basic principles
medical, and common urban settings. and their environments. The course parameters related to air, water, soil, nitrogen, biomes, biodiversity, and identification and control, accident of research techniques and
Through an in-depth discussion of will illustrate various measurement and noise quality using standard how species interaction. It discusses prevention and investigation, methodologies as applied to
risk management and planning, technologies, systems, and a laboratory and field equipment. water and air pollution as well as conducting safety trainings, and healthcare professions. The purpose
students will learn to critically analyze selection of control and elimination The course also introduces quality environmental geology and earth emergency planning. It also provides of this course is to further develop
and develop procedures to minimize methods. Further, the course will assurance and quality control (QA/ resources. This course also presents students with an in-depth idea research, critical analysis, and
health risks associated with exposure explain the methods of modeling QC), environmental standards, environmental issues, discusses communication skills.The major
to hazardous materials. atmospheric dispersion, detailing data analysis, and the application solutions that help reduce such about the national and international components of this course are
the sources of water pollution of pollution prevention and issues and provide sustainable occupational health and safety understanding research purpose
and the effects of water pollution, control technologies to support development, and emphasizes on the organizations. and methodology; developing a
EHS 415 - Environmental Health including biological treatment of environmental management and importance of maintaining a healthy research proposal; critical review
environment.
sewerage, sludge treatment, and
regulatory compliance. Emphasis is
Regulation & Compliance disposal, before addressing industrial placed on safe laboratory practices, HSC 315 - Global Issues in of the literature and information
resources; comprehending the role
Credit Hours: 3 wastewater treatment and water accurate data collection, and Environmental Health of ethics in health sciences research;
quality. professional reporting. HSC 210 - Epidemiology and and introducing different quantitative
Prerequisites: ENS 220 + HSC 315 Credit Hours: 3 and qualitative healthcare research
Population Health
The Environmental Health Regulation Prerequisite: EHS 205 methods. The course will also enable
and Compliance course discusses the EHS 435- Environmental EHS 440- Industrial Hygiene Credit Hours: 3 the students to develop different
importance of environmental law for Monitoring & Control Prerequisite: HSC 205 This course is an introduction to the data collection tools and different
the protection of natural systems. It Credit Hour: 3 global applications of environmental sampling designs and techniques.
describes in detail the evolution of Credit Hour: 3 Prerequisites: HSC305 This course introduces students health and safety theory. It covers
environmental laws on the national to the scientific discipline of a wide range of globally-relevant
and international levels and provides Prerequisites: EHS415 The course provides the students epidemiology. It covers definitions environmental health issues, EHS 499 - Undergraduate
the students with an understanding This course introduces the principles with the basics of industrial hygiene. and concepts of epidemiology including access to water, clean Research
of the regulatory and enforcement and concepts of subject with the It will highlight critical key concepts together with the principles and tools air, and energy. It also covers the
processes and the knowledge of emphasis on laboratory skills and and offers in-depth practical coverage of epidemiology. The course includes globally-relevant theoretical issues Credit Hours: 4
the most important environmental practical hands-on experiences for of hazards or potential hazards, measuring the frequency of health of environmental health ethics and
regulations in the UAE and the students. This course is designed sampling and workplace evaluations, issues, measuring environmental justice. Through the Prerequisite: 90 Credit Hours
internationally. It then examines how to provide an overview of the various hazard control, occupational health, risk and the burden of disease. analysis of theory and practice, this The Undergraduate Research course
government and non-government sample collection, analytical, and and occupational health standards. Epidemiological study designs are course looks at the global impacts is a senior level component of the
institutions and businesses comply data analysis techniques related The laboratory experiments explored, including descriptive, of environmental health and safety EHS program that gives students the
with these regulations and address to the detection and control of are premeditated to reproduce analytical and intervention studies. particularly in crisis situations, opportunity to participate in real-life
air and water pollution, waste pollution. This course will have characteristic industrial techniques Survey research, as a methodology whether these are man-made crises EHS topics/issues. It is a research-
management, and food safety. laboratory experiments, simulated and provide a foundation for the that can be used across many study (pollution of food & water sources) or directed work intended to advance a
experiments, demonstrations and selection of sampling and analytical designs, is addressed. Issues related natural disasters. student’s interest in a topic or issue
group activities for the students that techniques. to weighing up the evidence from related to EHS.
illustrate the principles and concepts such studies and ethical issues in
for the course Pollution Monitoring epidemiology are explored. Under the supervision of a
& Control. faculty member, students will be
engaged in specific tasks revolving
around a research question and
focusing on applying research

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