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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
This course will introduce students to health information science (HIS) and its applications in public health. Students will examine the health information lifecycle, and approaches to the development, management, and use of information and communication technologies (ICT). Issues related to the security, privacy, and confidentiality of systems and data will be discussed. Students will be introduced to environmental public health information systems and will begin their electronic portfolio of learning.
- 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 Drinking Water
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 laboratory exercises, 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 Recreational Water
ENVR73060
Recreational water, including pools, water parks, water slide receiving basins, whirlpools, spas, splash pads, beaches and other wet recreational water facilities are discussed. Legislation, guidelines, protocols, and standards relating to these topics are also considered. Course includes laboratory exercises, site visits to working facilities and practice with water testing and monitoring equipment.
- 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:
Air Quality
ENVR73050
Looks at indoor and outdoor air quality issues that affect population health. Students will explore and discuss the role of environmental public health professionals in response to air quality issues. Roles, responsibilities and communication with other agencies. Through experiential learning students will learn to assess air quality issues and develop recommended courses of action.
- Hours: 56
- Credits: 4
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases
HEAL73020
- Hours: 56
- Credits: 4
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
First Nations Experience
INDS71000
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
Psychology: Dynamics of Human Behaviour
PSYC72240
- Hours: 42
- Credits: 3
- Pre-Requisites:
- CoRequisites:
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:
Advanced Toxicology
ENVR73020
Focuses on how chemical, biological, and physical agents affect biological systems. This course advances the principles of toxicology. This includes dose response relationships, health and safety evaluation and risk assessment; and physiological and psychological responses to environmental hazards. Using systems based approach students will learn to: collect data and information, identify and evaluate risk factors, provide individualized feedback, and identify links to interventions to promote health, sustain function and/or prevent disease.
- 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:
Professional Research Internship II
RSCH74010
- Hours: 28
- Credits: 2
- Pre-Requisites: RSCH73010
- CoRequisites:
Student must pass 1 Course(s), selected in the Student Portal from available course options
Interdisciplinary Elective Details
Program outcomes
- Analyze quantitative and qualitative research findings to make appropriate evidence informed decisions that address environmental public health issues.
- Promote compliance with industry best practices through the interpretation of guidelines, legislation, protocols and policies.
- Assess health hazards using risk assessment principles to recommend appropriate mitigation, management and compliance strategies.
- Develop health recommendations by assessing the effects of current and historical public health practices, including ethical and political contexts, to inform effective strategies for health protection and promotion.
- Apply conflict management and negotiation strategies to effectively communicate, collaborate, and liaise with internal and external partners including government, private sector, and local and indigenous communities.
- Interpret and present information including technical reports, to communicate environment health information to professional, nonprofessional and diverse community audiences.
- Conduct inspections and investigations to identify and mitigate health hazards.
- Apply professional judgment and adherence to ethical and legal codes and standards including ensuring privacy and confidentiality of information, to maintain professionalism and foster community trust and protection.
- Develop and use strategies for personal and professional growth and to remain current within the public health field.