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Environmental Health

Environmental Health - SPH-V
  • SPH-V 201 Introduction to Occupational Safety and Health (3 cr.) Occupational health has become an increasingly important area within the field of environmental health. Occupational health, as discussed in this course, includes occupational safety as the two topics work together to protect the individual's health in the work environment. Noise exposures, physical hazards, chemical hazards and industrial hygiene are just a few of the topics covered in this class. Students will learn how to evaluate hazards in the work environment and interpret standards that apply to employee safety and health.
  • SPH-V 214 Environmental Regulations and Code Compliance (3 cr.) In this course, students will be introduced to the federal, state and local environmental regulations and learn about methods of compliance with these laws. At the federal level the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and others will be studied. At the state level, current regulations found in the Indiana State Department of Health administrative codes will be examined. Topics will include radon, lead-based paint, indoor air quality, food safety, and other relevant regulations. Active learning activities will be used to encourage class participation while maintaining interest in the course material.
  • SPH-V 215 Food Safety and Sanitation (3 cr.) Food safety is an important component of public health. This course is designed as a study of the principles of food-borne illness, sanitation, safety, personal hygiene, rodent and insect controls, regulations, and equipment affecting safe food handling in all operations. Students will study common pathogens and learn how pathogenic organisms can contaminate foods, principles of safe and sanitary food handling, and safety principles used to select, preserve, thaw, cook, and store foods. The course will include a discussion of food safety management practices such as Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP), public health policies, risk assessment, and federal food safety agencies and regulations. Active learning activities will be used to encourage class participation while maintaining interest in the course material.
  • SPH-V 310 Natural Resource Issues and Environmental Health (3 cr.) P: Permission of instructor; completion of core and required courses. This course approaches the issues of human health from the broad perspective of natural resources such as air and water quality, climate change, and habitat fragmentation and how these issues impact public health.  In order to accomplish this task, this course will encompass a variety of readings, class discussion, guest speakers, and several experiential learning components (ELCs).
  • SPH-V 311 Human Health and Natural Environments (3 cr.) This course approaches the issues of human health and quality of life from the perspective of the natural environment. That is, in what ways do natural environments impact human health and an individual's reported sense of quality of life? In order to accomplish this task, this course will encompass a variety of readings, class discussion, guest speakers, and several experiential learning components (ELCs).
  • SPH-V 341 Environmental Health Management and Policy (3 cr.) (Formerly HPER-V 324) Environmental health management and policy issues in public health using case-based approaches. Study of environmental health management and policy making at the local, county, state, federal and global scales.
  • SPH-V 351 Foundations of Environmental Health (3 cr.) An understanding of Environmental Health issues that affect Public Health is essential for any student of Public Health. This course is designed to introduce the student to the many varied areas of Environmental Health and demonstrate the important role this field plays in Public Health.
  • SPH-V 442 Introduction to Toxicology (3 cr.) P: Permission of instructor; completion of core and required courses. Toxicology is the study of the adverse effects of chemicals on living organisms and is an essential component of environmental health and public health. This course will provide the basic principles of toxicology in its application to public health. The course will be divided into three components: the general mechanism of toxic agents, the effect of toxic agents on target tissues and organs, and selective toxic chemicals or class of chemicals.
  • SPH-V 443 Environmental Sampling and Analysis (3 cr.) Collecting reliable and defensible environmental data requires proper sampling and analytical techniques, and is an essential job function for many environmental professionals. Currently, a diverse and diffuse array of environmental sampling and analysis tools are used in the field of environmental health. The overall objective of this class is to provide a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals of environmental sampling and analysis for students in environmental health and others interested in sampling and analytical work. Topics covered will include planning, sampling, analysis, QA/QC, and reporting with respect to air, water, solid liquid, and biological samples matrices. Active learning activities will be used to encourage class participation while maintaining interest in the course material.
  • SPH-V 496 Field Experience in Environmental Health (3-5 cr.) P: Permission of Instructor; Students must have completed all major coursework and have a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0. Public health skills are developed through professional experiences in public health settings facilitated by preceptors and supervised by faculty. Regular critiques will be held with supervisors, written progress reports and development of a major independent project are required. S/F grading.
  • SPH-V 510 Human Health and Natural Environments (3 cr.) Numerous textbooks address the relationship between human health and natural environments from either the perspectives of toxicity or environmental degradation. This course approaches the issues of human health and quality of life from the perspective of the natural environment. That is, in what ways do natural environments impact human health and an individual’s reported sense of quality of life? In order to accomplish this task, this course will encompass a variety of readings, class discussion, guest speakers, and several experiential learning components (ELCs).
  • SPH-V 522 Global Environmental Health Issues (3 cr.) This graduate level course approaches issues of human health from the broad perspective of natural resources including air and water quality, climate change, disease vector migration, and habitat fragmentation and how these issues affect public health through increased vulnerabilities, impacts to recreational endeavors, and specific events such as heat islands.
  • SPH-V 541 Environmental Health (3 cr.) (Formerly HPER-V 512) Environmental health management and policy issues in public health using case-based approaches. Study of environmental health management and policy making at the local, county, state, federal and global scales.
  • SPH-V 542 Principles of Toxicology (3 cr.) (Formerly HPER-V 513) Examines the basic concepts of toxicology as they apply to public health. Covers distribution cellular penetration, metabolic concision, and elimination of toxic agents and fundamental laws governing the interaction of foreign chemicals with biological systems. Applied to public health prevention using case study format concepts.
  • SPH-V 545 Exposure Assessment and Control (3 cr.) (Formerly HPER-V 519) Addresses: methodologies and applications of exposure assessment, determination of exposure monitoring strategies, assessing dose-response and intervention control strategies, exposure assessment models, exposure route, populations at risk and ecological impacts.
  • SPH-V 546 Risk Assessment Policy and Toxic Regulations (3 cr.) (Formerly HPER-V 520) Covers hazard identification, dose-response assessment, exposure assessment, and risk characterization. Through case studies, addresses concepts of risk management and their application to environmental health policies and toxic regulations.
  • SPH-V 548 Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology (3 cr.) (Formerly HPER-V 522) Examines effects of environmental factors on human health. Covers the health effects from exposure to physical, chemical and biological agents including the contribution of social, economic and cultural factors that are related to these exposures.
  • SPH-V 549 Public Health Biology (3 cr.) P: Biology and Microbiology. (Formerly HPER-V 525) This course explores pathophysiology within the context of the disciplines and profession of public health. Students will understand the pathogenesis of various disease conditions and how to identify critical points at which such pathogenesis could be prevented or interrupted through lectures and labs.
  • SPH-V 650 Special Topics in Environmental Health (3 cr.) (Formerly HPER-V 617) This course is designed with the flexibility to provide the student with the opportunity to explore a variety of current issues in Environmental Public Health. Topics will vary by instructor and topic. Topics might include ethics, nanotechnology, alternative energy sources, or occupational diseases. Course format will also vary. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
  • SPH-V 691 Readings in Environmental Health (1–3 cr.) P: Graduate GPA of at least 3.0; Instructor permission. (Formerly HPER-V 641) Planned readings in specialized areas of professional interests in environmental health are conducted under the direction of a member of the Environmental Health graduate teaching faculty. Enrollment is limited to Advanced Graduate students, and reading proposals must be approved by faculty in Environmental Health. Repeatable for credit.
  • SPH-V 692 Research in Environmental Health (1–8 cr.) P: Graduate GPA of at least 3.0; Instructor permission; Research proposals must be approved in advance. (Formerly HPER-V 640) Research projects are conducted under the direction of a member of the Environmental Health Graduate teaching faculty. Enrollment is limited to Advanced Graduate Students upon the approval of Faculty. Repeatable for credit.
  • SPH-V 696 M.P.H. Field Experience in Environmental Health Health (1–7 cr.) P: Graduate GPA of at least 3.0; Instructor permission. (Formerly HPER-V 644) Public health skills are developed through professional experiences in public health settings facilitated by preceptors and supervised by faculty. Regular critiques will be held with supervisors, written progress reports and development of a major independent project are required. Graded by S/F only.
  • SPH-V 698 M.P.H. Culminating Experience in Environmental Health (1–2 cr.) P: Permission of academic advisor; C: SPH-V 696; Students must be in their final year of the MPH program to enroll in the fall semester SPH-V 698 course. Enrollment in the spring semester SPH-V 698 course requires successful completion (passing grade) of the fall semester SPH-V 698 course. Students must enroll in SPH-V 698 for 1 credit fall semester and 1 credit spring semester in their final year of the MPH program. (Formerly HPER-V 650) This course provides students with an opportunity to demonstrate the extent to which they have met the MPH Program Competencies in Environmental Health. Graded on S/F basis only. Repeatable for credit.
  • SPH-V 741 Molecular Toxicology (3 cr.) P: Principles of Toxicology. (Formerly HPER-V 704) This is a lecture, laboratory and discussion-based class. The molecular mechanisms of several toxicant classes is covered. Emphasis is placed on the effects of xenobiotics on cellular processes, including biochemical reactions and signaling pathways.
  • SPH-V 743 Environmental Health Sampling (3 cr.) P: Environmental Health. (Formerly HPER-V 706) This course introduces students to the basic principles of environmental sampling and analysis to prevent or reduce public health hazards. Lectures and labs will examine sampling and analytical methods used to measure contaminants in the workplace and in community environments.
  • SPH-V 745 Advanced Toxicology (3 cr.) P: Principles of Toxicology. (Formerly HPER-V 707) Advanced Toxicology is a course designed for the toxicology student interested in broadening his/her experience into the sciences of toxins (poisons) and their influences on biological systems and the environment. Course content will cover specific toxicant types (poisons, pesticides, solvents, oils, estrogen, estrogen mimics, triclosan, carcinogens, teratogens, natural toxins and pollutants), adsorption, distribution, metabolism, biological elimination, sequestration, and remediation.  Lectures will cover mammalian systems with emphasis on target organs, detoxification and adverse effects. Methods to extract toxicants from soil, water, air, and plant material will be covered from journal articles, EPA published methods, and methods developed in our labs. Pesticide toxicity and organ effects will be demonstrated in invertebrate systems focusing on routes of entry, solubility, sequestration, elimination, and detoxification.
  • SPH-V 747 Carcinogenesis (3 cr.) P: Principles of Toxicology. (Formerly HPER-V 709) Fundamental aspects of oncology at the cellular and molecular levels; mechanisms of cancer initiation and progression, oncogene action, DNA damage and repair, carcinogenesis by radiation, chemicals, viruses; tumor immunology, anticancer therapies through lectures and laboratories.
  • SPH-V 749 Advanced Occupational Health (3 cr.) (Formerly HPER-V 710) Lectures will provide an introduction to the principles and practice of occupational hygiene. Occupational hygiene is concerned with the Anticipation, Recognition, Evaluation and Control of work place hazards to health and safety.
  • SPH-V 750 Current Topics in Environmental Health (2 cr.) (Formerly HPER-V 703) Course organization varies from year to year. We will be examining any environmental health topic from the basis for swimming beach water quality standards to low-dose exposures to agrochemical pesticides over long periods of time. Repeatable for credit with different topic.
  • SPH-V 752 Toxicology in Rural Environments (3 cr.) P: Principles of Toxicology. (Formerly HPER-V 714) This course explores the way that toxicological risks are controlled in the rural environments - looking at the way that various government programs are established, organized and operated to prevent or control toxicological hazards in rural communities.
  • SPH-V 753 Rural Environment Epidemiology (3 cr.) P: Principles of Toxicology. (Formerly HPER-V 715) This course offers an overview of selected important topics in rural environmental epidemiology. Epidemiologic methods for studying rural occupational and environmental determinants of disease will be presented in the context of studies of specific health outcomes, such as cancer, non-malignant respiratory diseases, adverse reproductive outcomes, and neurologic diseases.
  • SPH-V 755 Rural Public Health Policy and Environmental Law (3 cr.) (Formerly HPER-V 728) This course will discuss and explore the intricacies of rural public health law and policy analysis in a context of competing ethics, values, and powers.
  • SPH-V 757 Women's Health: Law, Environment, and Health Policies (3 cr.) (Formerly HPER-V 729) Through lectures this course will examine the preservation of wellness and the prevention of illness in women and their surrounding environments through the law.
  • SPH-V 782 Environmental Health Research Rotation (3 cr.) (Formerly HPER-V 713) This course will provide doctoral students with an opportunity to work directly with faculty and research staff in a specific laboratory.
  • SPH-V 791 Advanced Environmental Health Readings (1–3 cr.) P: Instructor permission required. (Formerly HPER-V 741) The main goal of this variable credit hour class is to help doctoral degree students develop some of the readings skills required for successfully completing the dissertation. Repeatable for credit.
  • SPH-V 792 Advanced Environmental Health Research (1–3 cr.) P: Instructor permission required. (Formerly HPER-V 740) The main goal of this variable credit hour class is to help doctoral degree students develop some of the research skills required for successfully completing the dissertation. Repeatable for credit.
  • SPH-V 794 Environmental Health Seminar (1–3 cr.) (Formerly HPER-V 701) The purpose of this course is to expose students to a broad range of environmental and occupational research, practice, and policy issues through seminar series. Repeatable for credit.
  • SPH-V 799 PhD Dissertation-Environmental Health (1–30 cr.) (Formerly HPER-V 799) Every dissertation presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for an advanced degree must represent the equivalent of at least 30 semester hours of work. Repeatable for credit.

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