Curriculum

Public Health

This course introduces the physical, chemical and biological risk factors in the environmental and occupational environments. It also teaches the preventive view of environmental and occupational health.

Introduction to Occupational Medicine

This course introduces the basic ideas of occupational diseases such as occupational lung, skin, neurological, musculoskeletal, nepotistic, reproductive, liver, renal, and cardiac disorders.

Literature Search and Study Design

This course introduces the fundamental concepts and skills required to conduct studies in health sciences. Students will be guided through a process of studying a question or observation by reviewing the related literature, asking logical questions, structuring the study components, designing study protocols, as well as interpreting data and generalizing conclusions.

Environmental Chemistry

This course introduces the fundamental concepts and skills required to conduct sampling & analysis of water borne pollutants.

Industrial Hygiene

Industrial hygiene is primarily concerned with the control occupational hazards that arise as a result of or during work. This course introduces the fundamental concepts and skills required to recognize, evaluate, and control the environmental stresses.

Risk Assessment of Environmental Toxic Chemicals

This course introduces the fundamental Concepts and Methodologies required to conduct risk assessment of environmental toxic chemicals.

Methods of Air Sampling and Analysis

This course introduces the fundamental Concepts and Skills required to conduct sampling and Analysis of Airborne pollutant.

Industrial Ventilation

This course will first introduce students the basic industrial ventilation Principles, and then the techniques with regard to the design of ventilation system will be further introduced.  All students will be requested to evaluate or design a ventilation system for a workplace assigned by the instructor at the end of the symmetry by using the techniques learned from this course

Environmental Monitoring

This course introduces the fundamental environmental monitoring skills required in the field of industrial hygiene, including sampling strategy, sampling instrumentation, chemical analysis technique, and data analysis methodology.  All attendants are required to participate in 2 hours lecturing and 3 hours laboratory/field practice each week.

Aerosol Science for Industrial Hygienist

This course is targeted at graduate students in industrial hygiene or environmental health to help them understand basic aerosol science principles.  To meet the specific requirement for the industrial hygiene field, this course is set to focu on the health-effect of aerosols, aerosol sampling techniques and workplace aerosol control methods.

Industrial Safety

This course covers most disciplines in the industrial safety field, including safety management, fire and explosion prevention, hazardous material management, mechanical and electrical safety, and personal protective devices.  Due to the broad band in industrial safety fields, guest speakers from government agencies and industries in industrial safety related fields would be invited to help coordinate the integration of this course teaching.

Instrumental analysis of hazardous substances

The course is focused on the theory and application of instrumental analysis of hazardous materials like organic solvents, heavy metals, which are frequently seen in the general ambient air and occupational environment.  The course topics include QA/QC in lab,GC,AAs,HPLC,IC, Spetrophotometry, and Mass.

Biollogical monitoring:

Biological monitoring is the science of assessment of exposure or early response through measurements of agents or metabolites or response rate in biological specimens.  This course will give an orientation of the general guideline of conducting biological monitoring.

Exposure assessment for epidemiological studies

The topics regarding data reporting, interpretation, limitation, and the QA/QC system of exposure assessment will be intensively addressed during the course.  The aim of this course is to provide a comprehensive overview of exposure assessment to graduate students. It is expected that students are capable of developing valid exposure assessment project to assess the exposure in the field and able to reasonably criticize the exposure measurement part in a scientific paper.

The critical events in the environmental and occupational health

Many critical episodes and events affect the contemporary and the following eras substantially.  This course gives an insight to these major events and their impact.

Management and Reporting Study Results

Scientific studies usually take a lot of time and effort however, failure to disseminate the study results outside the research team correctly and comprehensively may waste the whole effort.  The objective of this course is to introduce the principles of managing and reporting study results. The course covers preparation and editing abstracts oral presentation, posers and regular scientific articles.

Field Epidemiology

Epidemiology is a useful tool for studying environmental and occupational health.  The objective of this course is to introduce how to apply epidemology to field studies.  The course also covers some special issues including questionnaire design and sereillance in more depth. In addition, students are asked to conduct critiques on published epidemiological studies.

Case Studies of Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology

This course is designed to familiarize students with appro priate approaches to conducting epidemiological studies in the field of environmental and occupational health through on in-depth study of real cases.  The cases include both domestic and international studies.

Analytical Mass Spectrometry

Mass spectrometry is an important tool in trace analysis. New instrumental methods have been proposed and evolved continuously in the past several decades and they are now widely used in many disciplines.  This course will cover the operation principles of various mass spectromters, the interpretation of mass spectral data, and the applications of mass spectrometry in environmental analysis and biomedical research. After taking this course, students are expected to be able to read and understand the literature related to mass spectrometry.

Environmental & Occupational Epidemiology

Using epidemiological approach to determining health effects associated with exposure to occupational & general living environment, including chemical, physical and biological agents.  Epidemiological methodologies including cohort study, case-control study and cross-sectional study designs will be discussed.

Methodology of Assessing Indoor Air

Changes in living and working patterns in most parts of the world has enlightened the time we stay indoors to be greater than 85% of the day easily.  Therefore, “indoor air quality” has become an important issue for its health implications.  The course introduces the methodology of assessing indoor air quality based on the standpoints of architecture, physical, chemical and biological contamination.  It also covers the technique to identify and quantify indoor air pollution and the procedures involved to evaluate its health effects.

Assessment of Environmental Microbes

The course includes a 2-hr lecture and 3-hr laboratory practices weekly.  Through introduction of methodology for assessing environmental microorganism contamination, and actual practice of laboratory technique, it is hoped that the students will be equipped to discuss and investigate the importance and effects of environmental microbes.

Toxicology

The chief of this course is to introduce students to the subject of toxicology.More specifically its aim is to provide students with; a solid understanding of the basis principles of toxicology;to assist them in the interpretation of toxicological data and to learn how to apply it to human risk assessment.

Environmental toxicology

The chief of this course is to introduce students to the subjects of environmental toxicants. More specifically its aim is to provide students with:a general understanding of some key environmental toxicants in the world; to help them understand some of the biochemical mechanisms involved in target organ toxicity and how some key environmental toxicants are thought to exert their toxic effects.

Advanced Toxicology

The chief of this course is to introduce students to the subjects of molecular and genetic toxicology or clinic toxicology. More specifically its aim is to provide students with: a basic understanding of the toxicokinetics of some key detoxified enzymes; to cover the mechanism of carcinogenesis and mutagenesis caused by toxic chemical.

Chemical Carcinogenesis (I)

    The course is focus on the general concepts of chemical carcinogenesis, including historical development of theory of carcinogenesis, understanding the multi-step chemical carcinogenesis, the biological functions of oncogene and tumor suppressor genes and the experimental models of mutagenesis and carcinogenesis.

Chemical Carcinogenesis (II)

    This course is designed to introduce the current research status on chemical carcinogenesis to students. The following topics were included in the course. (1) The important role of apoptosis and cell cycle in the process of tumor development. (2) The important role of inflammatory related cytokins and free radical in chemical carcinogenesis. (3) The role of tumor necrosis factor alpha in the promotion step of chemical carcinogenesis.

General of Cellular and Molecular Biology

    The course is designed to introduce the general concepts of life science for the students without the background of cellular and molecular biology. The following topics were included in this course. (1) The structure and functions of macromolecular (protein and DNA). (2) Cell division and gene regulation in eucaryotic cells. (3) The current develop of biotechnology.

Fundamentals of Epidemiology

Epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related conditions or events in defined populations, and the application of this study to control of health problems.  This course is an introductory course to Epidemiology and covers the basic principals and methods of Epidemiology.

Biostatistics

Biostatistics is the branch of applied statistics that concerns the application of statistical methods to medical and biological problems.  This course is an introductory course to Biostatistics and covers the basic principals and methods of Biostatistics.