This course allows MPH students to tackle an Environmental Health problem using the skills and educational resources they have developed during their first year of coursework, during their practicum experience, and in their other professional experiences (employment, internships, volunteer work, etc.). Students will select a problem they can study or research in depth over a period of 10-12 weeks.

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.

This course provides an introduction to the field of multi-media (e.g., air, water, soil, food) environmental health risk assessment and how society incorporates risk assessment findings into regulations and policy.

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.

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.

An approach to research and evaluation; theories and ethical issues; practice using specific methods; learning to choose an appropriate method for particular contexts and goals.

Contemporary issues facing administrators. Topics include special education finance, law, and policy.

Supervised on-the-job doctoral school psychology experience. Work includes delivery of indirect and direct services in the areas of assessment, prevention, intervention, case management, and system level service delivery.

The purposes and processes used for synthesizing research findings and completing literature reviews for the purpose of evaluating knowlege claims in the field of special education will be covered in this course.