Degree Requirements
Introduction
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.
MS Student Handbook
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
- Title IX Training – Sexual Harassment
- IPHS 421 – SPH Success
- Quantitative Baseline Assessment
- SPH & UIC Policies Module
- Human Subjects Research
- SPH Academic Integrity Tutorial
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)