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PLAN 501 Urban Environmental Quality: A study of environmental aspects of urban areas and analysis of inter- and intra-city variations in environmental quality. PLAN 620 Environmental Policy: A survey of environmental issues and policies designed to address those issues. PLAN 623 Environmental Policy and Natural Hazards: Explores the relationship of environmental policy and planning with natural hazards and disasters, with an emphasis on preparation for and mitigation of impacts. PHTX 630 Toxicology, Principles and Application: A survey of the interdisciplinary science of toxicology, providing an introduction to concepts concerning adverse effects of toxic agents on physiological systems. By special arrangement. IE 530 Industrial Safety Engineering: Major areas are safety management, health-related aspects, and safety engineering controls. Typical topics include Kentucky OSHA, an in-plant safety program, toxicology, industrial hygiene, ergonomics, motivation, and systems analysis CHE 533 Chemical Engineering Safety and Health: Overview of regulations and industrial practices, emphasizing chemical hazards, including: industrial hygiene, toxicology, controls and hazards analysis. CHE 534 Industrial Waste Management: A survey of regulations, generation, control and management of industrial wastes and environmental hazards: airborne, aqueous, solids and hazardous wastes. Course includes guest speakers, site visits and a term project. CHE 535 Pollution Prevention: Multimedia pollution prevention and waste minimization of hazardous and nonhazardous wastes and emissions: toxics use reduction; source reduction; reuse, reclamation and recycling; product life-cycle analysis; economic evaluation; assessments; planning and management. PHCI 611 Introduction to Epidemiology and Public Health: Comprehensive introduction to public health with an emphasis on a population-based approaches to health issues. Both classical and clinical epidemiology will be presented, including new definitions for epidemiology from the perspectives of medical care for individuals and the societal aspects of public health. Covers health status indicators, including morbidity, mortality, vital statistics and measures of quality of life. General categories of epidemiological measures will be introduced. PHCI 614 Epidemiology of Infectious Disease: Covers the epidemiology of infectious disease with an emphasis on basic methods as applied to dynamics of transmission, vaccine effectiveness, acute respiratory infections including tuberculosis, diarrheal diseases, sexually transmitted diseases including HIV, and hepatitis. PHCI 651 Introduction to Environmental Health: Lays a foundation for students to build upon their medical and scientific background in applying clinical skills in the resolution of real, in-the-field, community-based problems. Utilize problem-based training exercises involving both classroom (laboratory) and in-field epidemiological studies to active community-based environmental issues.
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