Degree Requirements

Students selecting the Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology concentration must complete the School-Wide Course Requirements as well as 38 semester hours of the following concentration courses.

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School-Wide Core Requirements (10 semester hours)

  • BSTT 400 – Biostatistics I (4 semester hours)
  • EPID 403 – Introduction to Epidemiology: Principles and Methods (3 semester hours)
  • IPHS 450 – Foundations and Determinants of Public Health (3 semester hours)

Required Non-Credit Training

Divisional Core (14 semester hours)

Required courses:

  • BSTT 401 – Biostatistics II (4 semester hours)
  • EPID 404 – Intermediate Epidemiologic Methods (4 semester hours)
  • EPID 406 – Epidemiologic Computing (3 semester hours)
  • EPID 591 – Current Epidemiologic Literature (2 semester hours)
  • EPID 595 – Epidemiology Research Seminar (1 semester hour)

Select one of the following courses:

  • BSTT 505 – Logistic Regression and Survival Analysis (2 semester hours)
  • BSTT 506 – Design of Clinical Trials (3 semester hours)
  • BSTT 507 – Sampling and Estimation Methods Applied to Public Health (3 semester hours)

Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Courses (32-48 semester hours)

  • BSTT 401 – Biostatistics II (4 semester hours)
  • EPID 404 – Intermediate Epidemiologic Methods (4 semester hours)
  • EPID 406 – Epidemiologic Computing (3 semester hours)
  • EPID 411 – Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases (3 semester hours)
  • EOHS 421 – Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene (2 semester hours)
  • EOHS 495 – Environmental/Occupational Health Seminar (1 semester hour)
  • EPID 500 –Applied Methods for the Analysis of Epidemiologic Data (4 semester hours)
  • EOHS 501 – Exposure Assessment Strategies (3 semester hours)
  • EOHS 502 –Environment, Toxicology, and Disease (4 semester hours)
  • EPID/EOHS 530 – Current Topics in Occupational & Environmental Epidemiology (2 semester hours)
  • EPID/EOHS 536 – Applied Methods in Environmental Epidemiology (2 semester hours)