Students choose a topic to research on their own under the guidance of a faculty advisor who will then grade the final written report.

This course examines current advances in environmental health science via critical reading and discussion of recently published peer-reviewed papers related to environmental health. Using the typical journal club format, the papers (and topics) discussed will change from week to week and will include topics such as pollution, exposure assessments, mechanistic toxicology, environmental epidemiology, and others.

Opportunity for supervised field observation to gain practice experience in selected public health agencies.

Students choose a topic to research on their own under the guidance of a faculty advisor who will then grade the final written report.

Graduate students research and present one-hour seminar on a topic related to Environmental Health, and research a topic for a term paper.

The toxicological activity of toxic substances found in the general environment and in industrial settings. Topics include biochemical mechanisms for absorption, excretion, tissue distribution, metabolic transformations, and conjugations; comparative metabolism of animal species; special applications to the toxicology of heavy metals, pesticides, and other industrial chemicals.

Concepts of control methods used by environmental health and engineering practitioners. Topics include water, wastewater, solid wastes, food sanitation, vector control, housing, and accident control measures.

Air pollution is presented as a major public health problem. Topics include air pollutant sources and atmospheric transformations, meteorology, health and economic effects, climate change, sampling and analysis, indoor/outdoor exposures, control technology and air quality criteria (including air quality standards, policy and regulations).

This seminar is designed for incoming doctoral students in social justice education. It examines different epistemological orientations and inquiry methods used in conducting research by scholars in the field. The course explores the boundaries between theory, research, policy and practice in social justice education; examine personal, practical, epistemological and political dilemmas in producing scholarly work, and review and apply inquiry methods and tools that support critical, systematic scholarship and evidence based practices in social justice education.

Theory and practice of group counseling with special emphasis on individual needs, group processes and societal/community context.