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Level 1
Course details
Human Biology
BIOL71000
- Hours: 56
- Credits: 4
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
Conestoga 101
CON0101
- Hours: 1
- Credits: 0
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
Academic Communications
ENGL71000
This course is intended to develop the communication skills required in academic studies, which will translate into useful writing and presentation skills in Canada’s increasingly intercultural professional and technical domains. Students will practice planning, drafting, and revising documents. The complex process of researching, creating, and revising arguments will encourage critical thinking, grammatical writing, and appropriate citation skills. Correct formatting of research papers and effective oral presentation skills will be emphasized.
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
Introduction to Environmental Health
ENVR71000
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
Environmental Science I
ENVR71040
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
Health Information Science
HIM71000
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
Level 2
Course details
Applied Microbiology
BIOL71011
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
World Cultures
CLTR72000
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
Emerging Issues - Global and Local Concerns
ENVR71010
Evidence of the connection between the natural and built environment and health is well-established. Costs to human health are higher in developing countries, but environmental factors have a significant impact here in Canada and Ontario. Outlines the impact of environmental changes on communicable and non-communicable diseases. Students will also discuss the determinants of health and their impact on local and global health outcomes.
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
Safe Water Drinking
ENVR71030
Covers municipal, private water, and small drinking water systems as well as on-site sewage disposal systems. Emphasize will be placed on testing and monitoring of systems and the remediation of malfunctioning systems. Course material will cover: water resource management, characteristics of potable water from ground and surface sources, including source protection, point of use treatment processes, and monitoring; legislation, guidelines and standards, including response to adverse water quality incidences. Course includes site visits to working facilities and practice with water testing and monitoring equipment.
- Hours: 56
- Credits: 4
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
Environmental Science II
ENVR71050
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
Level 3
Course details
Professional Communication
ENGL72000
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites: ENGL71000
- CoRequisites:
Environmental Toxicology
ENVR72015
- Hours: 56
- Credits: 4
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
Safe Water: Recreational
ENVR73060
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
Understanding Research
RSCH73000
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
Student must pass 1 Course(s), selected in the Student Portal from available course options
Interdisciplinary Elective Details
Level 4
Course details
Environmental Public Health Law
ENVR72020
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
Community Health and Healthy Built Environments
ENVR72035
- Hours: 56
- Credits: 4
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
Waste Management
ENVR72040
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
Principles of Ethical Reasoning
PHIL72900
This course is intended to acquaint students with the intellectual tradition of moral philosophy and help them develop practical analytic and critical skills through reading, writing, and discussion. This course focuses on ethical issues faced by individuals in Canadian society. It helps students to clarify their values and establish a framework for ethical decision making. Students will explore a variety of moral issues such as euthanasia, abortion, minority rights, racism, bio-medical technology, capital punishment, pornography, discrimination, poverty, environment and war. These questions do not admit of easy answers, because there are often plausible-sounding moral reasons to be given on each side of the matter. In part because of this, there is a tendency to want to set them aside as unanswerable, as just a matter of opinion. Yet they cannot be ignored. Rather, these questions require that we think hard about them and address them carefully, and that we explore various underlying presuppositions that we often accept uncritically. As a result, this is a course in which we will focus on and practice the skill of critical thinking, and learn to express carefully, verbally and in writing, our reasoning for a given position.
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
Applied Statistics
STAT73100
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites: NURS72050 OR RSCH73000
- CoRequisites:
Level 5
Course details
Co-op and Career Preparation
CEPR71050
- Hours: 14
- Credits: 1
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
Inspection Practices, Quality Assurance and Auditing
ENVR73005
- Hours: 56
- Credits: 4
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
Epidemiology and Public Health
HEAL73000
This course is designed to provide undergraduate students with an introduction to the epidemiological methods used to study health and disease in populations. The applications of epidemiology in public health activities to promote health and prevent disease will be explored. Canadian resources, discussions, and in-class work are used to support the course text.
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
Food Science and Technology
SCIE73000
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
Group Dynamics
SOC71500
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
Student must pass 1 Course(s), selected in the Student Portal from available course options
Interdisciplinary Elective Details
Level 6
Course details
Infection Prevention and Control
ENVR73030
- Hours: 56
- Credits: 4
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
Environmental Measurement and Assessment: Air Quality
ENVR73050
- Hours: 56
- Credits: 4
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases
HEAL73020
- Hours: 56
- Credits: 4
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
Psychology: Dynamics of Human Behaviour
PSYC72240
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
Student must pass 1 Course(s), selected in the Student Portal from available course options
Interdisciplinary Elective Details
Level 7
Course details
Co-op Work Term (Bach Environmental Public Health)
COOP74111
- Hours: 420
- Credits: 14
- Pre-Requisites: CDEV71050 OR CEPR71050
- CoRequisites:
Level 8
Course details
Emergency Preparedness and Response
ENVR72005
- Hours: 56
- Credits: 4
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
Environmental Measurement and Assessment: Advanced Toxicology
ENVR73020
- Hours: 56
- Credits: 4
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
Risk Assessment and Risk Analysis
ENVR73040
Explores the key environmental public health skills of risk assessment and risk analysis in a hands-on interactive class participation environment. Students will learn to manage and evaluate risk assessments, and apply risk based decision making to principals to occupational, food, water, and other environmental hazards. Risk communication skills and public consultation will also be discussed. Course will use current and historical Canadian and International events.
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
Food Processing and Hygiene
FOOD73000
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
Health Promotion and Education
HEAL74000
Examines the role of the public health professional in affecting Behavior changes in a particular target audience or end user through the application of constructs, from a variety of Behavior change theories and recognition of the social determinants of health. Student's synthesis knowledge and skills introduced at the start of the course in order to develop implement and evaluate health promotion programs and/or advocate for vulnerable populations while addressing current Environmental public health issues. Students will participate in peer evaluations that will demonstrate the importance of evidence-based service delivery.
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
Professional Research Internship I
RSCH73010
- Hours: 28
- Credits: 2
- Pre-Requisites: RSCH73000 AND STAT73100
- CoRequisites:
Level 9
Course details
Occupational Health and Safety
ENVR73075
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
Professional Practice
ENVR74000
- Hours: 70
- Credits: 5
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
Public Health Policy
HEAL74010
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
Topics in Management
MGMT74115
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
Professional Research Internship II
RSCH74010
- Hours: 28
- Credits: 2
- Pre-Requisites: RSCH73010
- CoRequisites:
Program outcomes
- Appreciate the role of public health in society through an exposure to the history of population health in Canada.
- Apply and integrate theory and practice of environmental health sciences, infection prevention and control, and injury prevention to assess and control factors in the environment to target disease prevention and positively impact population and community health.
- Interpret the context, structure, functioning, and effectiveness of public health systems and other programs aimed at protecting and promoting the health of the public.
- Categorize the factors affecting the etiology, incidence, and prevalence of major health problems and disparities in populations.
- Classify the major sources of chemical, microbial, and physical agent contamination identified in water, air, soil, and food.
- Analyze the effects of environmental contaminants on the human body and the mechanisms through which they produce effects.
- Influence positive health behaviour change through the use of current technology and resources by investigating and analyzing issues, managing inquiry, collaborating, and communicating information.
- Apply risk assessment and control strategies to chemical, biological & physical hazards in the environment.
- Outline the importance of risk perception in influencing the views of the public on environmental hazards and the importance of this in Environmental health.
- Analyze quantitative and qualitative research findings; organize the findings across studies, and make appropriate evidence informed recommendations based on current knowledge.
- Incorporate relevant research and theory in the formation and implementation of programs, policies and practices.
- Apply the basic methods used in compliance verification, outbreak investigation, infectious and chronic disease epidemiology, disease and injury prevention, and evaluation of screening tests.
- Apply compliance techniques for environmental public health legislation with an understanding of the legislative process from evidence collection to court procedures.
- Demonstrate professional communication by organizing data and information, developing technical reports, and giving oral presentations on recognition, evaluation, management, and control of environmental health hazards.
- Demonstrate effective communication, leadership, teamwork and cultural awareness in an inter-professional team and when working with diverse populations
- Apply professional judgment and adherence to ethical and legal codes and standards, including ensuring privacy and confidentiality of information
- Differentiate between the roles and responsibilities of government, non-government agencies, and private organizations in terms of environmental health.
- Evaluate effective engagement, information sharing and behavioural change techniques through collaborative, inter-professional population-focused practice.