Environmental Health at WCU

Environmental Health Curriculum

The B.S. in Environmental Health consists of the WCU Liberal Studies curriculum (42 hours); 30hours of math and sciences; 36 core environmental health courses; 10 hours of emphasis in an area such as environmental health (ENVH), chemistry (CHEM), environmental science (ES), natural resources management (NRM), biology (BIOL), geology (GEOL), and foreign language are required.  The area of emphasis will be chosen in conjunction with the student's advisor.  Six (6) or more of the emphasis hours must come from 300 or 400 level courses.  Eight (8) addtional general elective hours are required for a total of 126 hours.  The course selection is found below:

Environmental Health Core Course Requirements
ENVH 230 - Intro to Environmental Health
ENVH 310/311 - Water quality Control and Lab
ENVH 330/331 - Food Protection & Sanitation and Lab
ENVH 375 - Environmental Toxicology
ENVH 430/431 - Arthropod Vectors and Public Health Pests and Lab
ENVH 440 - Air Quality Control
ENVH 450 - Quantitative Air Analysis Lab
ENVH 457 - Industrial Hygiene
ENVH 458 - Environmental Regulation & Law
ENVH 460 - Senior Seminar in Environmental Health
ENVH 470 - Principles of Epidemiology
ENVH 483 - Internship in Environmental Health
Required Math and Sciences
MATH 146 - Pre-Calculus
MATH 170 - Applied Statistics
PHYS 130 - Introduction to Physics I
CHEM 139 - General Chemistry I
CHEM 140 - Advanced General Chemistry
CHEM 330 - Aquatic Chemistry
BIOL 293 - Human Physiology
BIOL 313 - Microbiology - Health & Nutrition

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