Degree Requirements
Introduction
The PhD in Environmental Health program requires a minimum of 96 semester hours. Students must complete a minimum of 9 semester hours in formal 500 series courses in major area of concentration (not necessarily in one division). Students must also complete 6 semester hours in a collateral area. The 595 seminar series may not be counted towards fulfillment of this requirement.
PhD Student Handbook
School-Wide Core Requirements (14 semester hours)
- BSTT 400–Biostatistics I (4 semester hours)*
- BSTT 401–Biostatistics II (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)*
*if not previously taken at the master’s level
Required Non-Credit Training
- Title IX Training – Sexual Harassment
- IPHS 421 – SPH Success
- SPH & UIC Policies Module
- Human Subjects Research
- SPH Academic Integrity Tutorial (AIT)
Divisional Core Requirements (17-18 semester hours)
- EOHS 401–Foundations of Environmental and Occupational Health (2 semester hours)
- EOHS 402–Systems Approach in Environmental and Occupational Health (3 semester hours)
- EOHS 495–Environmental/Occupational Health Seminar (1 semester hours)
- EOHS 501–Exposure Assessment Strategies (3 semester hours)
- EOHS 502–Environment, Toxicology, and Disease (4 semester hours)
- EOHS 556–Risk Assessment in Environmental and Occupational Health (3 semester hours)
- EOHS 595–PhD Seminar in EOHS (1 or 2 semester hours)
Methods selective: Students should select one course from one of the following lists of courses in either qualitative OR quantitative methods; to be selected according to academic needs and research activities.
Methods Selectives Courses
Students should select one course from the following list of courses in qualitative or quantitative methods, to be selected according to academic needs and research activities.
Courses
- CHSC 534–Management and Analysis of Qualitative Data (3 semester hours)
- CLJ 561–Qualitative Methods and Design (4 semester hours)
- DHD 546–Qualitative Methods in Disability Research (4 semester hours)
- NURS 574–Qualitative Research in Nursing (4 semester hours)
- PSCH 531–Community Research (3 semester hours)
Courses
- BSTT 537–Longitudinal Data Analysis (4 semester hours)
- EPID 500–Applied Methods for the Analysis of Epidemiologic Data (4 semester hours)
- EPID 501–Advanced Quantitative Methods in Epidemiology (4 semester hours)
- IE 442–Design and Analysis of Experiments in Engineering (0-4 semester hours)