MSc Environmental Health: University of the West of England

Introduction

This course provides vocational postgraduate education in environmental health to meet the needs of the health professional when confronting environmental health issues. When you have completed the course and the required professional practical training and assessment set by the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH), you will be eligible to be registered by the Environmental Health Registration Board, Chartered Institute of Environmental Health to practise as Environmental Health Practitioners.

On graduation, you will have acquired sufficient knowledge and have developed necessary experience in decision-making so that you can contribute to problem-solving and interventions in environmental health.

The course structure accommodates those students who wish to combine work with study by day release. Specific details of this can be discussed with the Course Leader. The taught course is fully supported by online material and library access.

Content

Studies focus on the main environmental health concerns, namely:

• Public Health
• Food and Health
• Housing and the Residential Environment
• Pollution and Environmental Hazards

Workplace Safety and Occupational HealthModules:

• Environmental Health Principles and Practice - 40 credits
• Epidemiology and Research Methods - 20 credits
• Food Control - 20 credits
• Buildings, Housing and Residential Environment - 20 credits
• Pollution and Safety Management - 20 credits
• Developing a Research Project - 20 credits
• Dissertation - 40 credits

Entry requirements

Entry is open to those who:

• hold a first degree (minimum 2:2 honours) in a science based discipline; or
• hold a first degree (minimum 2:2 honours) in another discipline and can demonstrate that they have attained equivalent to the science foundation necessary for the programme in such cases.

Admissions and International Recruitment deals with enquiries and applications for all full-time undergraduate programmes. Contact by

• telephone: +44 (0)117 32 83333
• fax: +44 (0)117 32 82810
• e-mail: admissions@uwe.ac.uk
• letter: Admissions and International Recruitment, University of the West of England, Frenchay Campus, Bristol BS16 1QY, UK