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: Exposure Science and health (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: Occupational and Environmental Epid (Winter, 3 credits)

EHS 655: Human Exposure Analysis (Winter, 3 credits)

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

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

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

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

Epidemiology

EPID 600: Introduction to Epidemiology (Fall, Winter, 3 credits)

EPID 601: Principles and Methods in Epidemiology (Fall, 3 credits)

  

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

Health Management and Policy

HMP 653: Law and Public Health (Winter, 3 credits)

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

Environment and Sustainability

EAS 593: Environmental Justice (Fall, 3 credits)

EAS 594: Indigenous Peoples, Rights and Environ Justice (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 credits)

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, 3 credits)

Health Behavior & Health Equity

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

HBHEQ 690: Environmental Health Promotion (Fall, 3 credits)

Strategy

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

Mathematics

MATH 523: Loss Models I (Fall, 3 credits)

Law

LAW 791: Environment Crimes (Not offered 2023-2024; 2024-2025)

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.