Bachelor of Science in Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health Online

Overview of traditional, emerging, and controversial issues associated with environmental health.

Introduction to the principles and practice of Industrial Hygiene through the study of chemical, physical, and biological agents responsible for occupational illness.

Principles of toxicology with industrial and environmental implications and the toxicological effects of certain dangerous substances, chemicals, metals, and environ­mentally relevant pesticides.

Introduction to control strategies to reduce or eliminate occupational hazards including administrative and engineering controls, ventilation, shielding, noise control, and biohazard, thermal stress and emission control.

Introduction to the most common types of field measurements, sampling collection methods, and laboratory analyses that are used in evaluating occupational health hazards.

Water quality, water supply, and wastewater disposal, as well as solid and hazardous waste management, treatment, and disposal technology.

Introduction to basic concepts of epidemiology and biostatistics as well as some of the basic techniques of public health and evidence-based medicine.

Incidence of occupational diseases and approaches to recognition and prevention.

Supervised field-based experience in a private or public industrial, hospital, or governmental agency.

Anticipation, identification, and evaluation of health and safety hazards and application of safety and health laws and OSHA regulations.

Introduction to EHS management principles in both office and industrial settings to develop safer and healthier work environments.

Occupational safety hazards associated with the construction industry. Emphasis is placed on OSHA policies, procedures, and standards as well as construction health and safety principles.

Introduction to principles and practices for understanding the nature of occupational hazard recognition, accident prevention, loss reduc­tion, and accident investigation analysis.

Introduction to risk analysis and ex­amination of the fundamental aspects of risk, focusing on environmental and public health risks including hazard identification, exposure assessments, and risk communication.

Introduction to the principles of ergonomics including fundamental ter­minology, concepts and applications of physiology, anthropometry, biomechanics, and engineer­ing to workplace design.

Pollutants, health effects, and technologies for controlling for emis­sions.

Capstone course covering preparation for job searches, presentation, and certification exam preparation. Students will give formal presentations on their internship.

Advanced study in the area of industrial hygiene including noise, ventilation, and specialized calculations.

Principles and techniques applied to the protection of food for human consumption. Emphasis is placed on food safety and proper environmental control measures to minimize health dangers.

An introduction to the basic requirements in industry for process safety management of chemical hazards and the tools used to implement process safety management systems.

An introduction to the basic principles of fire safety including prevention, detection, relevant fire codes, and common control methods.

A continuation of CHEM 1043 with a focus on the role of chemistry in human body functions.

An all hazards approach is utilized to identify legal and ethical issues, cultural, political and religious issues, collective behaviors and group panic, role of the media, effective communication, and identification of resources for persons engaged in disaster and emergency preparedness.

Development of skills in written communication in STEM-related fields for a variety of purposes and audiences.

Overview of current environmental law, its administration and enforcement.

This course is for students in a variety of disciplines including the sciences, allied health fields, and education. Focus is on descriptive statistics for quantitative and qualitative data, normal distributions, correlation, linear regression, sample surveys, randomized comparative experiments, sampling distributions, estimation and hypothesis testing for means and proportions.

Required course for all first semester freshmen. Course content is centered around the skills and knowledge needed to be a successful ASU student, including academic performance, problem solving, critical thinking, self-management and group building skills, university policies and other relevant issues.

Study and practice of fundamentals of written communication, including principles of grammar, punctuation, spelling, organization, and careful analytical reading. Prerequisite, with grade of C or better, for ENG 1013.

Continues the practice of ENG 1003 to develop further the skills learned in that course. Based on reading and discussion of various types of writing, the students’ essays will provide practice in different kinds of rhetorical development, including research and documentation.

Equations and inequalities, functions and graphs, polynomial and rational functions, exponential and logarithmic functions, systems of equations and inequalities, matrices, and miscellaneous topics. No credit given if taken following MATH 1054.

Course Description: Introduction to major artists, media, styles and works of art within their cultural and historical contexts for the non-art major.

Introduction to the analysis and interpretation of literary works from several historical periods ranging from early civilizations through the Renaissance.

Introduction to the analysis and interpretation of literary works from several historical periods ranging from the Renaissance to the present.

An introduction to music for the listener who has had no formal musical training or experience. A study of musical styles and composers and their cultural and historical contexts.

Basic problems of philosophy based upon readings in the works of selected leading philosophers. A prerequisite for upper level philosophy. Fall, Spring.

Introduction to aesthetic and critical appreciation of the art of theatre through lecture, live and video performance, and discussion.

United States history. Social, economic, and political developments from Columbus to the end of Reconstruction.

Social, economic, and political developments from Reconstruction to the present. Fall, Spring, Summer.

The constitution, government, and politics of the United States.

Human society and social behavior.

A study of the interaction between society and mass communication through the lenses of history, theory, economics, culture, law, and technology.

The pre-modern world, with emphasis on the economic, political, and cultural processes that shaped societies before the rise of global interdependence.

The modern world, with emphasis on the economic, political, and cultural processes that have increased global interdependence.

This course examines national income accounting, inflation and unemployment, competing theories of national income, fiscal policy, the Federal Reserve System and monetary policy, and international trade.

Principles of resource allocation, supply and demand, consumer behavior, costs of production, the competitive model, oligopoly, and factor markets are examined.

Designed to give the student a basic understanding of our economic system. Basic economic concepts will be explored and contemporary economic problems and issues will be examined in light of the concepts learned.

An introduction to selected fundamental concepts including dimensional analysis, mole concept, atomic and molecular structure, nomenclature, chemical reactions, thermochemistry, intermolecular interactions, gases, mixtures, kinetics, equilibrium and acid base chemistry. Fall, Summer.

Special course fees apply. Prerequisite or co-requisite of CHEM 1043. Fall, Summer.