EOHS400 INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
| Lecture: | Monday and Wednesday 3:00 - 4:30pm, every Fall semester. 3 credit hours |
| Textbook: | Levy, Wegman, Baron, Sokas Occupational and Environmental Health. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006. (not required) |
| Objective: | The course is an introduction to environmental and occupational health sciences that will help students to identify health and safety hazards encountered in work, home, community, and larger environments; outline the mechanisms by which these hazards may affect human health adversely; and describe methods for preventing these adverse outcomes. |
| Prerequisite: | None |
EOHS440/CME411 CHEMISTRY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROFESSIONALS
| Lecture: | Tuesday and Thursday 4:00 - 5:30pm, every Fall semester. 3 credit hours |
| Textbook: | Girard: Principles of Environmental Chemistry. Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2005 |
| Objective: | Students are prepared for further study in their areas and for advanced environmental chemistry courses by learning the chemistry concepts related to the natural and polluted environment, incluidng Atmospheric Chemistry, Aquatic Chemistry, and Pollution Chemistry at introductory level. Current issues such as stratospheric ozone, tropospheric smog, global climate change, drinking water, sewage and waste disposal, etc., are included. The structure, nomenclature, properties, and health concerns of toxic chemicals such PCBs, dioxins/furans, pesticides, PAHs, and toxic heavy metals, are discussed. Quantitative calculations are emphasized. |
| Prerequisite: | One year of college chemistry. |
| Lecture: | Tuesday and Thursday 4:00 - 6:00pm, Spring semester of odd years. 4 Credit hours. |
| Textbook: | Benjamin: Water Chemistry. McGraw Hill. 2001. |
| Objective: | This course provides a comprehensive coverage of the dilute aqueous solution chemistry of acid-base reactions, complex formation, precipitation/dissolution, and redox reactions. Students will learn the chemical equilibrium and kinetic principles and how to apply them to the complex processes occurring in natural and engineered water systems. Quantitative calculations and computer modeling will be emphasized. |
| Prerequisite: | EOHS440 or consent of instructor. |
| Lecture: | Tuesday and Thursday 4:00 - 6:00pm, Spring semester of even years. 4 Credit hours. |
| Textbook: | Schwarzenbach, Gschwend, and Imboden: Environmental Organic Chemistry. 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2003 |
| Objective: | This course is designed to provide up-to-date knowledge and skills needed in research involving organic environmental pollutants. It focuses on the behavior of organic chemicals in the environment. The physicochemical properties that determine the transport and fate of organic pollutants will be theoretically explained, and computer-based estimation methods will be used. Environmental fate assessment models will be used to assemble those properties in order to provide the chemicals' behavior profiles under given environmental conditions. Quantitative calculations and computer modeling are involved. |
| Prerequisite: | EOHS440 or consent of instructor. |