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2024-2025 Academic Year

Fall 2024

ENST 305 Intro to Environmental Health
This course provides an overview of the science and practice of environmental health (EH). Students will learn about the environment - the air we breathe, the water we drink, the weather we experience, the buildings in which we live, work and learn, the constant change and flux of our ecosystems and how this all impacts our health. Students will also learn major EH concepts (epidemiology, toxicology, and exposure assessment methods) while becoming familiar with practices, policies, and regulatory frameworks. Overall, this course will provide the tools to promote public health, prevent and control adverse environmental exposures in communities, and emphasize the role of public health communication and strategy. Students will apply information learned through lectures, class exercises, case studies, laboratory exercises and discussion of relevant literature to explore the complex relationship between exposures to environmental chemicals and pollutants (ECPs) and human health outcomes. Students will learn about systems thinking as applied to the primary sciences of environmental health, and approaches for exploring environmental health quality and associated impacts on health, as well as the tools and data resources available for guiding public health prevention and intervention strategies. This experience will culminate in a field research project that explores indoor and outdoor environmental quality, and air pollution.

ENST 406 Air Quality in Chg Global Env
This course offers an exploration of the dynamics of air quality within the context of a rapidly changing global environment. Grounded in interdisciplinary perspectives, students will have the opportunity to examine the scientific principles, societal impacts, and policy responses related to air quality. Through a combination of lectures, discussions, case studies, and fieldwork, students will gain a comprehensive understanding of the factors influencing air quality, the health and environmental consequences of air pollution, and strategies for sustainable air quality management in a changing world. Final student presentations will provide the students an opportunity to evaluate and synthesize the quantitative and qualitative impacts of air pollution, while emphasizing a global perspective.

ENST 550 Independent Research

Spring 2025

ENST 162 Integrative Environmental Sci
This course is an introduction to interdisciplinary environmental science. Students will learn to draw upon a variety of natural sciences to identify and address environmental challenges. Students will examine environmental issues analytically, learn to evaluate existing data, and begin to develop skills for acquiring new knowledge via the scientific method. They will be exposed to basic techniques for assessing environmental problems in lectures, laboratory exercises, and fieldwork. Three hours classroom and three hours laboratory a week. Prerequisite: 161

ENST 560 Stu/Faculty Collaborative Rsch