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 * 3 each
*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 ** 6
**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

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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 # Course Title Credits Quarter
ENV H 580 Environmental Health Seminar 1, 1, 1 A, W, Sp
ENV H 581 Environmental Health Reading I 1 A
ENV H 583 Environmental Health Reading III 1 Sp
ENV H 700* Master's Thesis 9 A, W, Sp, S
*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** Medical Biometry I & II OR Applied Biostatistics I & II 4 S (511), A (511, 517), W (512, 518)
**Replaces PB AF 527 & 528 in MPA requirements.
EPI 511*** Introduction to Epidemiology 3-4 A
***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# Course Title Credits Quarter
ENV H 405 Toxic Chemicals and Human Health 3 Sp
ENV H 453 Industrial Hygiene 3 A
ENV H 541 Ecology of Environmentally Transmitted Microbial Hazards 3 A
ENV H 543
OR
ENV H 577		 Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment
OR
Risk Assessment for Env. Health Hazards		 3
OR
3/4 		Sp
OR
A
ENV H 552 Environmental Chemistry of Pollution 3 W
ENV H 594 Current Topics in Environmental Health 1, max. 2 W
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
OR
ENV H 446
Solid Waste Management
OR
Hazardous Waste Management
3
OR
3
Sp
OR
W
Air Pollution
ENV H 548
Community Air Pollution 		3 Sp
Water and Wastewater
ENV H 545		 Water, Wastewater, and Health 4 A

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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 # Course Title Credits Quarter
ENV H 441 Food Protection 3 W
ENV H 442 Vector Control 3 Sp
ENV H 449 Health Effects of Air Pollution 2 W (even yrs)
ENV H 457 Industrial and Environmental Noise 3 Sp (even yrs)
ENV H 461 Air Pollution Control 4 A
ENV H 471 Environmental Health Regulation 3 W
ENV H 512 Waste Management, Recycling & Pollution Control 3 *
ENV H 541 Ecology of Environmentally Transmitted Microbial Hazards 3 A
ENV H 542 Detection and Control of Environmentally Transmistted Microbial Hazards 3 W
ENV H 543 Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment 3 Sp
ENV H 550 Microscopy: Image Aquisition and Analysis 2 *
ENV H 556 Quantitative Occupational Exposure Analysis 3 W (odd yrs)
ENV H 568 Molecular Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases 2 W
ENV H/EPI 570 Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology 3 Sp
ENV H 574 Probabilistic Exposure Analysis 3 Sp
AMATH 503 Mathematical Biology I 3 A*
AMATH 504 Mathematical Biology II 3 W*
BIOST 512 Medical Biometry II 4 W
BIOST 518 Applied Biostatistics II 4 W
CEE 462 Applied Limnology and Pollutant Effects on Freshwater 3/5 *
CEE 480 Air Quality Modeling 3 *
CEE 482 Wastewater Treatment and Reuse 3 *
CEE 483 Drinking Water Treatment 3 *
CEE 484 Decentralized and On-Site Watewater Management and Reuse 3 *
CEE 486 Environmental Analysis Laboratory 3 *
CEE 493 Air-Pollution Source Testing and Equipment Evaluation 3 *
CEE 540 Microbiological Process Fundamentals 3 *
CEE 541 Biological Treatment Systems 3 *
CEE 542 Bioremediation of Environmental Pollutants 3 *
CEE 543 Aquatic Chemistry 4 *
CEE 547 Lake and Watershed Management 3 *
EPI 503 Public Health Informatics and Surveillance 3 *
EPI 520 Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases 3 W*
EPI 526 Epidemiology of Diseases Communicable from Nature 3 Sp*
EPI 529 Emerging Infections of International Public Health Importance 3 W (even yrs)*
EPI 532 Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases in Resource-Limited Countries 3 *
FISH 404 Diseases of Aquatic Animals 5 *
GEOG 460 Geographic Information Systems Analysis 5 A*
GEOG 461 Urban Geographic Information Systems 5 W*
GEOG 463 Geographic Information Systems Workshop 5 Sp*
HSERV 541 Topics in Maternal and Child Health I 3 *
HSERV 550 Policy and Economics: Fundamentals and Applications 3 W*
HSERV 552 Health Policy Development 3 *
MEDCH 401 Immunizing and Antimicrobial Agents 4 Sp*
MICROM 435 Microbial Ecology 3 Sp (even yrs)*
MICROM 442 Medical Bacteriology 3 W*
MICROM 444 Medical Mycology and Parasitology 4 Sp*
MICROM 445 Medical Virology 2 Sp*
MICROM 450 Molecular Biology of Viruses 3 W*
MICROM 490 Aquatic Microbiology 3/5 Sp (odd yrs)*
OCEAN 452 Spacial Info Technologies in Ecosystem Sciences 3 A*
ORALB 521 Medical Microbiology and Immunology 3 Sp*
PABIO 536 Bioinformatics and Gene Sequence Analysis 3 A, Sp*
PABIO 540 Antibiotic Resistance Mechanisms and their Impact on Public Health 3 *
PABIO 551 Biochemistry and Genetics of Pathogens and Their Hosts 4 *
PABIO 553 Survival Skills for Scientific Research 2 Sp*
PA AF 513 Public Policy Analysis 3 A*
PA AF 590 Environmental Policy Processes 3 *
URBDP 420 Database Systems and Planning Analysis 3 *
URBDP 422 Urban and Regional Geospatial Analysis 5 W*
URBDP 429 Computer-Aided Planning of Urban Systems 3 *
URBDP 467 Urban Planning Uses of Remote Sensing 3 *
URBDP 468 Land Use From Satellite Data 3 *
* Course schedules are subject to change. Please check the UW Time Schedule or contact the department to confirm quarters 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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