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

Concurrent MPA/MPH Environmental and Occupational 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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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

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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
ENV H 543 3 Sp Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment
ENV H 580 1, 1, 1 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 548* 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.

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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).

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Practicum
Course # Credits Quarter Course Title
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 & Evans Internship requirement.

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Thesis
Course # Credits Quarter Course Title
ENV H 700 9 A, W, Sp, S Master's Thesis

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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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