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Environmental Science Concentration:

Environmental Health

Supporting Department: Allied Health Sciences

Supporting Center: Center for Environmental Health
(College of Agriculture & Natural Resources)

    

Concentration objectives:
To provide students with a strong foundation in basic biological sciences coupled with a broad understanding of concepts in environmental health. Course work will focus on the etiology of human disease from the standpoint of chemical, radiological and bacteriological environmental exposures via food, water, air, occupation and personal habits (i.e. tobacco). Particular emphasis is placed on cancer and reproductive risks, and epidemiological techniques designed to detect incremental risks associated with environmental exposure.

 
 

Required course work:
 

Group I: Molecular and Cellular Biology

Choose any TWO, including at least one laboratory (*) course

MCB 2410 (200) Human Genetics  
MCB 2211 (201) Gene Expression (Offered Fall semester)
MCB 3011 (205) Human Metabolism and Disease (Offered Fall semester, alternate years)
MCB 3212 (211) Basic Immunology (Offered Fall semester)
MCB 4415* (215) Experiments in Molecular Genetics* (Offered Fall semester)
MCB 2610* (229) Fundamentals of Microbiology*  
 
Group II: Animal Science

Student must pass ALL of the following courses:

AH 3021 (221) Environment, Genetics, and Cancer (Offered Spring semester, even years)
ANSC 4341 (224) Food Microbiology and Safety (Offered Spring semester)
 
Group III: Additional Departments
Choose ONE of the following courses:
ANSC 4642 (227) Food Microbiology Laboratory (Offered Spring semester, even years)
DGS 3222 (222) Medical Cytogenetics  
NUSC 4236 (236) Principles of Nutrition (Offered Spring semester)
PVS 2100 (200) Anatomy and Physiology of Animals (Offered Fall semester)
PVS 4300 (297) Principles of Pathobiology (Offered Spring semester)