Requirements

Completion of the Risk Science and Human Health Certificate requires a minimum of 14 coursework credits from four of the five content clusters:

  • 3-4 credits from cluster 1
  • 11 credits from cluster 2,3,and 4A or 4B
  • At least 2 credits must come from cluster 2
  • At least 2 credits must come from cluster 3
  • At least 3 credits must come from cluster 4A or 4B

All students must achieve a grade of ‘B’ or higher in each course to fulfill the certificate requirements.

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3-4 credits from among the following courses and sufficient additional credits as necessary to achieve 11 credits from clusters 2,3 and 4A or 4B.

At least 2 credits from among the following courses and sufficient additional credits as necessary to achieve 11 credits from Cluster 2,3,4A or 4B.

At least 2 credits from among the following courses and sufficient additional credits as necessary to achieve 11 credits from Clusters 2,3 and 4A and 4B.

At least 3 credits from among the following courses and sufficient additional credits as necessary to achieve 11 credits from clusters 2, 3 and 4A or 4B.

At least 3 credits from among the following courses and sufficient additional credits as necessary to achieve 11 credits from clusters 2, 3 and 4A or 4B
Certificate in Risk Science and Human Health Course Diagram
Required Clusters Choose One Cluster
Cluster 1
3-4 credits		 Cluster 2
2 credits		 Cluster 3
2-3 credits		 Cluster 4A
3 credits		 Cluster 4B
3 credits
Participating Departments: Public health Risk communication and risk management and policy Quantitative risk assessment Systems approaches to risk and sustainability Benefit/cost and risk analysis

Environmental Health Sciences

EHS 601 (Fall, 3 credits)

EHS 652 Evaluation of Chemical Hazards (Fall, 3 credits)

EHS 588 / EAS 475 Environmental Law (Winter, 3 credits)

EHS 603 Occupational and Environmental Disease (Winter, 3 credits)

EHS 608/EPID 608 (Winter, 3 credits)

EHS 572 / EAS 572 Environmental Impact Assessment [Not offered 2021-2022]

EPID 675 /EHS 675 Data Analysis for Environmental Epidemiology (Winter, 3 credits)

EHS 604: Integrated Approaches In Environmental Health (Fall, 2 credits)

EHS 655 Human Exposure Analysis (Winter, 3 credits)

EHS 674 Environmental and Health Risk Modeling (Winter, 3 credits)

EHS 657 Advanced Exposure Assessment (Not offered 2021-2022)

EHS 672 Healthy And Sustainable Foods And Products- Life Cycle Assessment (Fall, 3 credits)

Epidemiology

EPID 600 (Fall, 4 credits)

EPID 601 (Fall, 4 credits)

EPID 607 Communicable Diseases in Public Health Practice (Not offered 2021-2022)

EPID 675/EHS 675 (Winter, 3 credits)

EPID 608/EHS 608 (Winter, 3 credits)

Health Management and Policy

HMP 653 Law and Public Health (Not offered 2021-2022)

HMP 610 Cost Effectiveness Analysis in Health (Fall, 3 credits)

Environment and Sustainability

EAS 593 Environmental Justice (Not offered 2021-2022)

EAS 594 Poverty, Environment, and Inequality (Not offered 2021-2022)

EAS 530 Decision-Making for Sustainability (Fall, 3 credits)

EAS 532 Natural Resource and Environmental Conflict Management (Not offered 2021-2022)

EAS 523 Ecological Risk Assessment (Fall, 2 credits)

EHS 572 / EAS 572 Environmental Impact Assessment (Fall, 2 credits)

EAS 550/STRATEGY 566 Systems Thinking for Sustainable Development (Winter, 3 credits)

EAS 557 Industrial Ecology (Winter, 3 credits)

EAS 512 and EAS 513 / STRATEGY 564 and STRATEGY 565: Strategies for Sustainable Development I and II (Fall, Total 3 credits)

EAS 567 Social Vulnerability and Adaptation to Environmental Change (Fall, 3)

EAS 570 Environmental Econ: Quantitative Methods & Tools (Fall, 3 credits)

Public Policy

PUBPOL 650 Introduction to Science and Technology Policy Analysis (Winter, 3 credits)

Public Health

PUBHLTH 616 Public Health In Action: International (Winter, 2 credits)

PUBHLTH 516 Leadership Skills For Interprofessional Practice (Winter, 1 credit)

PUBHLTH 512 Principles Of Epidemiology For Public Health (Fall, Winter, 3 credits)

Health Behavior & Health Equity

HBHEQ 662 Risk Communication: theory, techniques, and application in Health (Fall, 3 credits)

HBHEQ 690 Environmental Health Promotion (Fall, 3 credits)

Strategy

EAS 512 and EAS 513 / STRATEGY 564 and STRATEGY 565: Strategies for Sustainable Development I and II (Fall, Total 3 credits)

EAS 550/STRATEGY 566 Systems Thinking for Sustainable Development (Winter, 3 credits)

Mathematics

MATH 523 Loss Models I (Fall, 3 credits)

Law

LAW 791 Environment Crimes (Not offered 2021-2022)

LAW 671/01 Climate Change and the Law (TBD, 3 credits)

Industrial and Operations Engineering

IOE 561 / ISD 523 – Risk Analysis I (Previously IOE 591) (Winter, 3 credits)

School of Information

SI 563 Game Theory (Fall, 3 credits)

Technology & Operations

TO 512 AND TO 513 Decision Support with Spreadsheets AND Spreadsheet Modeling and Applications (Fall, Winter, 2-course sequence, 3 credits total) *Both courses must be taken to count towards the Risk Science and Human Health Certificate.