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Concentration in Environmental Health
The ENST concentration in Environmental Health gives students the concepts and skills to work in this broad and increasingly important field with wide ranging applications in environmental science and public health. The field encompasses environmental factors and ecosystem functions that affect human health and the effects of human activities on the ecosystem products and services we depend on. Example topics within the field include emerging environmental threats, ecological risk analysis and assessment, ecosystem services, climate change, environmental toxicology, environmental impact assessment, chemical fate and transport, human health risk assessment, environmental microbiology, biodiversity, and invasion ecology.
Curriculum
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TOTAL CREDITS REQUIRED FOR THE B.S., including the CORE General Education Program = 120 credits, including: 68-69 required major credits; 12 Ecosystem Health and Human Health elective credits; 9-10 free elective credits; and 30 credits for CORE (including Introduction to Writing (3), Professional Writing(3), Humanities and Arts (9), Social Sciences and History (9), and Human Cultural Diversity (3). CORE Sciences and
Mathematics (9) are satisfied by major required courses. CORE Advanced Studies are satisfied by ENST 471 Capstone Practicum (4) and a non-ENST 300- or 400-level course (3)).
Environmental Health Advisor
Kimberly Monahan
1457 Animal Sciences Building
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland 20742
Phone: 301.405.1193
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Last updated: 09/18/2011
Dr. Paul Leisnham studies how human-induced environmental changes, such as land use modification and climate change, have been linked to the reemergence of major diseases carried by mosquitoes. FULL STORY
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