Master of Public Affairs & Master of Science in Environmental Health Concurrent Degree

Concurrent MPA/MS Environmental Health students are required to complete:

Course List

MPA Core Requirements Credits
PB AF 510 Foundations of American Democracy 1
PB AF 511 & 512 Public Management I & II 3, 3
PB AF 513 Pubic Policy Analysis 3
PB AF 516 Microeconomic Policy Analysis 3
PB AF 522 Public Budgeting and Financial Management 3
PB AF 527 & 528 Quantitative Analysis I & 2 * N/A
*Concurrent degree students should take BIOST 511 & 512 Medical Biometry I & II or BIOST 517 & 518 Applied Biostatistics I & II to satisfy this requirement.
PB AF 605 Degree Project*** N/A
***Replaced by ENV H 700 Master's Thesis. Thesis committee will contain professors from both schools and should develop a topic that covers the intersection of policy, management, and the student's concentration in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences.
Evans Required Internship ** 0
**MPH EOH students may make suitable arrangements to coordinate this requirement with the practicum requirement (ENV H 599) for the MPH program.

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MPA Restricted Electives Credits

Methods/Analysis

MS Students: ENV H 577 Risk Assessment MPH Students: ENV H 574 or Evans Approved Option (Evans School has identified a wide variety of courses across the University and in addition offers courses such as Qualitative Methods, Program Evaluation, Survey Research, Advanced Regression Analysis, or Decision Analysis.
3 Methods Credits Required

Economics

HSERV 585 Introduction to Health Economics OR HSERV 587 Health Policy Economics OR HSMGMT 514 Health Economics OR Other approved course.
3 Economics Credits Required

Values

Any approved Values class in Evans School or Public Health, such as PBAF 504 Admin. Ethics, PBAF 506 Ethics & Public Policy, PBAF 596 Ethics and Values in Environmental and Natural Resource Policy, or PHG 512/LAW E562/MHE 514 Legal, Ethical, and Social Issues in Public Health Genetics
3 Values Credits Required

Gateway Electives

Covered by MS or MPH core requirements
N/A

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Master of Science Core Courses
Course Credits Required Quarter Course Title
ENV H 580 (3) A,W,Sp Environmental Health Seminar
ENV H 581 (1) A Environmental Health Reading I
ENV H 583 (1) Sp Environmental Health Reading III
ENV H 700* (9) A,W,Sp,S Master's Thesis
*Replaces PB AF 605 Degree Project. Thesis committee will contain professors from both schools and should develop a topic that covers the intersection of policy, management, and the student's concentration in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences.
BIOST 511 & 512 OR BIOST 517 & 518** (4,4) S - 511 A - 511, 517 W- 512, 518 Medical Biometry I & II OR Applied Biost. I & II
**Replaces PB AF 527 & 528 in MPA requirements.
EPI 511*** (4) A Introduction to Epidemiology
***Higher level Epidemiology courses can be substituted for EPI 511. EPI 512 and EPI 513 must both be completed if they are taken to satisfy this requirement.

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Environmental Health Program Required Courses
Course# Credits Qrtr Course Title
ENV H 405 (3) Sp Toxic Chemicals and Human Health
ENV H 453 (3) A Industrial Hygiene
ENV H 541 (3) A Ecology of Environmentally Transmitted Microbial Hazards
ENV H 543 (3) Sp Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment
OR ENV H 577 (3/4) A Risk Assessment for Env. Health Hazards
ENV H 552 (3) W Environmental Chemistry of Pollution
ENV H 594 (1,max. 2) W Current Topics in Environmental Health
Choose courses from 2 of the following 3 areas:
(If more than two courses are taken, the additional courses may be counted toward the elective credit requirement.)
Waste Management:
ENV H 445 (3) Sp Solid Waste Management
OR ENV H 446 (3) W Hazardous Waste Management
Air Pollution:
ENV H 490 (3) Sp Community Air Pollution
Water & Waste Water:
ENV H 545 (3) A Water, Wastewater, and Health

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Environmental Health Program Representative Electives
Environmental Health students must take nine graded elective credits. Selection of elective courses must be approved by the student's academic advisor.
Course# Credits Qrtr Course Title
Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences:
ENV H 441 (3) W Food Protection
ENV H 442 (3) Sp Vector Control
ENV H 449 (2) W even yrs Health Effects of Air Pollution
ENV H 457 (3) Sp, even yrs Industrial and Environ. Noise
ENV H 461 (4) A, Sp Air Pollution Control
ENV H 471 (3) W Environmental Health Regulation
ENV H 512 (3) * Waste Management, Recycling & Pollution Control Facilities
ENV H 542 (3) W Detection & Control of Env. Transmitted Microbial Hazards
ENV H 543 (3) Sp Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment
(If not taken as a required course above.)
ENV H 550 (2) * Microscopy-Image Acquisition & Analysis
ENV H 556 (3) W Quantitative Occup. Exposure Analysis
ENV H 568 (2) W Molecular Epi. of Infectious Diseases
ENV H 574 (3) Sp Probabalistic Exposure Analysis
Applied Mathematics:
AMATH 503 (3) A Mathematical Biology I
AMATH 504 (3) W Mathematical Biology II
Biostatistics:
BIOST 512 (4) W Medical Biometry II
BIOST 518 (4) W Applied Biostatistics II
Civil & Environmental Engineering:
CEE 461 (3/5) * Biological Problems in Water Pollution
CEE 462 (3/5) * Applied Limnology and Pollutant Effects on Freshwater
CEE 480 (3) * Air Quality Modeling
CEE 483 (3) * Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
CEE 484 (3) * On-Site Waste Disposal
CEE 486 (3) * Water Quality Analysis
CEE 493 (3) Sp Air Pollution Source Testing and Equipment Evaluation
CEE 540 (3) * Microbiological Process Fundamentals
CEE 541 (3) * Biological Treatment Systems
CEE 542 (3) * Bioremediation of Environ. Pollutants
CEE 543 (3) A Aquatic Chemistry
CEE 547 (3) * Lake and Watershed Management
Epidemiology:
EPI 503 (3) * Public Health Informatics & Surveillance
EPI 520 (3) W Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases
EPI 526 (3) Sp Epidemiology of Diseases Communicable from Nature
EPI 529 (3) W Emerging Infections of International Public Health Importance
EPI 532 (3) * Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases of Third-World Importance
EPI 570 (3) Sp Occupational & Environ. Epi
Ecosystem Science and Conservation:
ESC 457 (3/5) W Intro. to Fish and Wildlife Toxicology
Fisheries:
FISH 404 (5) * Diseases of Aquatic Animals
FISH 405 (5) * Molluscan Aquaculture and Fisheries
Geography:
GEOG 460 (5) A Geographic Information Systems Analysis
GEOG 461 (5) W Urban Geographic Information Systems
GEOG 463 (5) Sp Geographic Information Systems Workshop
Health Services:
HSERV 541 (3) * Topics in Maternal and Child Heath I
HSERV 550 (3) W Policy and Economics: Fundamentals and Applications
HSERV 552 (3) * Health Policy Development
HSERV 587 (3) * Health Policy Economics
Medicinal Chemistry:
MEDCH 401 (4) Sp Immunizing and Antimicrobial Agents
Microbiology:
MICROM 435 (3) Sp Microbial Ecology
MICROM 442 (3) W Medical Bacteriology
MICROM 444 (4) Sp Medical Mycology and Parasitology
MICROM 445 (2) Sp Medical Virology
MICROM 450 (3) W Molecular Biology of Viruses
MICROM 490 (3/5) A Aquatic Microbiology
Oceanography:
OCEAN 452 (3) A Spatial information Technologies in Ecosystem Sciences
Oral Biology:
ORALB 521 (2) * Medical Microbiology & Immunology
Pathobiology:
PABIO 536 (3) A/Sp Bioinformatics & Gene Seq. Analysis
PABIO 540 (3) * Antibiotic Resistance Mechanisms and Their Impact on Public Health
PABIO 551 (4) * Biochemistry and Genetics of Pathogens and Their Hosts
PABIO 553 (2) Sp Survival Skills for Scientific Research
Program on the Envioronment:
ENVIR 521 (4) * Business Strategy in Natural Environ.
Public Affairs:
PB AF 513 (3) A Public Policy Analysis
PB AF 514 (3) * Policy Implementation
PB AF 590 (?) A Environmental Policy Processes
Urban Design and Planning:
URBDP 420 (3) * Database Syst. & Planning Analysis
URBDP 422 (5) W Urban & Regional Geospatial Analysis
URBDP 429 (3) * Computer-Aided Planning of Urban Systems
URBDP 467 (3) * Urban Planning Uses of Remote Sensing
URBDP 468 (3) * Land Use From Satellite Data

* Please check UW Time Schedule or contact department to confirm quarter offered.

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Additional Electives
Free elective credits: Sufficient elective credits to reach total of 90 credits.
*These electives can be taken from among any of the concurrent courses that fit within the student's approved plan of study.

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