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Environmental health is a broad and increasingly important field with wide ranging applications in the environmental science and public health fields. The field encompasses environmental factors and ecosystem functions that affect human health and the effects of human activities on the ecosystem products and services we depend on. Example topics within the field include ecological risk analysis, environmental toxicology, environmental impact assessment, chemical fate and transport, human health risk assessment, industrial hygiene, air quality, environmental microbiology, food safety and security, biodiversity and human health, and children’s environmental health.
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TOTAL CREDITS REQUIRED FOR THE B.S., including the CORE General Education Program = 120 credits, including: 68-69 required major credits; 12 Ecosystem Health and Human Health elective credits; 9-10 free elective credits; and 30 credits for CORE (including Introduction to Writing (3), Professional Writing(3), Humanities and Arts (9), Social Sciences and History (9), and Human Cultural Diversity (3). CORE Sciences and
Mathematics (9) are satisfied by major required courses. CORE Advanced Studies are satisfied by ENST 471 Capstone Practicum (4) and a non-ENST 300- or 400-level course (3)).
Kimberly Monahan
1457 Animal Sciences Building
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland 20742
Phone: 301.405.1193
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For more information, contact Elizabeth Weiss
Last updated: 03/14/2011