Master of Public Affairs & MPH Environmental and Occupational Health Concurrent Degree

Concurrent MPA/MPH Environmental and Occupational Health students are required to complete:

  • MPA Core Requirements and Restricted Electives
  • MPH Requirements including Public Health Core Courses, Environmental mand Occupational Health Courses, DEOHS Electives, Thesis and Practicum
  • Sufficient additional elective credits as needed to reach a total of 90 credits.

Course List

DEOHS Elective Courses

Thesis Track: Students electing the thesis track must take at least two additional 400 or 500-level courses in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences (minimum 6 credits).

Practicum

* Students may make suitable arrangements to coordinate the practicum requirement it Evans Internship requirement.

ENV H 599A* min 3 A, W, Sp, S Practicum/Field Work in Environmental Health

Thesis

ENV H 700 9 A, W, Sp, S Master's Thesis

Additional Electives

Free elective credits:
Sufficient 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.

Concurrent MPA/MPH Environmental and Occupational Health students are required to complete:

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.
 
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

 

Public Health Core Requirements
 Course# Credits Quarter Course Title
 EPI 511 4 A Introduction to Epidemiology
 OR EPI 512-513 3 each A, W Epidemiologic Methods I and II
 BIOST 511 4 A Medical Biometry I
  OR BIOST 517* 4 A Applied Biostatistics I
* Concurrent MPH/MPA students are also required to take BIOST 512 or 518
 HSERV 511 3-4 A Introduction to Health Care and Public Health Services
 HSERV 510 3 Sp Society and Health

Environmental and Occupational Health Required Courses
Course# Credits Quarter Course Title
ENV H 405 3 Sp Toxic Chemicals and Human Health
OR ENV H 514,515,516 3 each A, W, Sp Environmental and Occupational Toxicology
ENV H 453 3 A Industrial Hygiene
OR ENV H 553 3 W Instrumental Methods for Industrial Hygiene Measurement
OR ENV H 564 4 A Recognition of Health and Safety Problems in Industry
ENV H 570 3 Sp Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology
ENV H 577 3/4 A Risk Assessment for Environmental Health Hazards
OR ENV H 472 3 A Environmental Risk and Society
OR ENV H 543 3 Sp Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment
ENV H 580 1, 3 qts. A, W, Sp Environmental & Occup. Health Seminar
ENV H 581 1 A Environmental Health Readings I
ENV H 583 (Thesis/Concurrent MPA Students) 1 Sp Environmental Health Readings III
OR HSERV 522 (Non-thesis Students) 3-4 A Health Program Evaluation
ENV H 446* 3 W Hazardous Waste Management
OR ENV H 490* 3 Sp Community Air Pollution
OR ENV H 541* 3 A Ecology of Environmentally Transmitted Microbial Hazards
OR ENV H 545* 3 A Water, Wastewater, and Health
OR ENV H 552* 3 W Environmental Chemistry of Pollution
* Courses in Environmental Health not chosen can be taken as electives.

DEOHS Elective Courses
Thesis Track: Students electing the thesis track must take at least two additional 400 or 500-level courses in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences (minimum 6 credits). 

Practicum
ENV H 599A* min 3 A, W, Sp, S Practicum/Field Work in Environmental Health
* Students may make suitable arrangements to coordinate the practicum requirement it Evans Internship requirement.

Thesis
ENV H 700 9 A, W, Sp, S Master's Thesis

Additional Electives  
Free elective credits:
Sufficient 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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