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Course Criteria
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Study of the effects of chemical and physical agents on the health of the public and environment. Included are sources, transport, chemical behavior, and biochemical mechanisms for adverse health effects from environmental pollutants. Course Information: Same as CHE 465.
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4.00 Credits
Provides the basic concepts and vocabulary to understand many of the hot environmental issues related to chemicals in our environment. Introduces public health and policy issues as well as technical aspects related to the broad topic of chemicals in the environment. A course about chemical issues, not chemistry, this course is designed to provide non-chemists with a basis for understanding contemporary issues such as safety testing of chemicals, air and water quality, and disposal of hazardous chemicals. Course Information: This course fulfills an Engaged Citizenship Common Experience requirement at UIS in the areas of Global Awareness or ECCE Elective.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Examines the global emergence of previously unknown or re-emergent infectious diseases. Historical and current diseases will be discussed by integrating the perspectives of medical science and public health in contexts of social systems, economics, politics, and geography. Challenges and remedies in an interdependent but unequal world will be discussed. Course Information: Same as CLS 471. This course fulfills an Engaged Citizenship Common Experience requirement at UIS in the areas of Global Awareness or ECCE Elective.
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4.00 Credits
Provides awareness and preparation on environmental health issues in crisis management using multidisciplinary approach to response strategies to natural disasters; industrial accidents; terrorism in food safety, waste management, environmental health risk assessment, crisis communication; cultural competence; local and state level legal and policy issues; and environmental justice. Course Information: This course fulfills an Engaged Citizenship Common Experience requirement at UIS in the areas of U.S. Communities or ECCE Elective.
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4.00 Credits
Analysis of public and environmental health concerns of ambient and indoor air quality and local state, national and global administrative procedures, policies, and regulations attempting to control ambient and indoor air quality.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the nature of solid and hazardous wastes. Technologies, regulations, and enforcement techniques are studied and present and potential solutions are analyzed. Course Information:
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4.00 Credits
Provides a general overview of statistical methods commonly used in the collection and analysis of health research data. Topics include descriptive statistics, basic concepts of probability, statistical inference, analysis of variance (ANOVA), correlation, regression, distribution free methods, and introduction to use of a statistical software. Emphasis is on understanding and applying statistical concepts intuitively to the interpretation of health research data. Core course. Course Information: Working knowledge of algebra required.
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4.00 Credits
Emphasizes the practical application of community health research to enhance the practice of public health. Public health practitioners engaging in administration, policy analysis, program development, and service coordination must be able to assess the needs of populations served and must be able to design and implement programs to meet those needs and evaluate program outcomes. The objective is to provide practical experience necessary for students to skillfully apply a variety of research methods and protocols, data collection, and analysis and interpretation skills to needs assessment and evaluation in public health. Core course. Course Information: Prerequisite: MPH 503.
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4.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the concepts and methods used in program evaluation with a particular emphasis on health programs. Topics include: research design (experimental, quasi-experimental and non-experimental approaches); needs assessment, assessment of theory, process evaluation, cost analysis, impact and outcome evaluation; the use of logic models and the use of an ecological model in planning and evaluation of health programs. Course Information: Prerequisite: MPH 506 or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Examines epidemiologic concepts and methods, disease causation models, and study designs. Uses morbidity, morality, and other vital statistical data in the scientific appraisal of community health. Core course.
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