BSc (Hons) Environmental Health

This module aims to get you thinking of your personal development and career planning from the beginning of your study at university. It will reinforce the importance of graduate skills in the job market.

This module allows you to gain an insight into how environmental stressors impact on the human body and the living environment. There will also be a field trip to a sewage treatment plant, composting facility, restored landfill site or similar venue to explore the ecological processes employed.

In this module you will focus on the key measures and techniques used in studying and working with populations to improve health and reduce health inequalities. You will be provided with an introduction to how the principles of demography and community participation can be utilised to improve health and reduce health inequalities.

This module aims to introduce you to the development of environmental and public health policy and governance since the 19th century. You will explore the historical development of public and environmental health governance from the Sanitary Reforms (1800's) through to modern day concerns such as Alcohol Use, Tobacco Control and Housing. The basic concepts of English law are introduced and aspects of the legal system are explored in relation to public and environmental health.

Within Environmental Health there has been a tradition to focus on the five key intervention areas: food safety; health and safety; housing; environmental protection and health promotion and health protection (sometimes known as public health within Environmental Health circles). In this module you will look to move away from this traditional model and instead you will examine the key themes and concepts that underpin these intervention areas.

This module provides you with an insight into the practical skills that are necessary as you begin your course and as you progress through your programme of study and into a career in Public and Environmental Health. This module looks to introduce you to a range of practical skills that will be useful for a career in Public Health or Environmental Health. The module blends both taught and practice elements together to enable you to have not only an understanding of why these skills are important but the opportunity to practice them.

This module aims to provide you with the resources, skills and knowledge to optimise opportunities provided in the workplace to develop and strengthen a range of professional skills, relevant to an Environmental Health Practitioner, via participation in an environmental health/public health based project.

This module will engage you in a critical exploration of current issues in the interface between environmental problems, safety of food, and its production and consumption in relation to human health. Food hygiene and safety are examined, alongside risks to public heath from food contamination. You will also examine the roles of the Environmental Health Practitioner and other organisations involved in food safety, both nationally and internationally.

This module provides you with the relevant skills to identify, select and assess the effectiveness of a range of environmental health interventions and enforcement options within the key Environmental Health areas of environmental protection. Health protection aims to anticipate chemical, physical and social hazards and develop interventions to protect the public's health. Environmental health practitioners are involved in the practice of these approaches and you will explore how these approaches are used and evaluate their effectiveness.

This module aims to provide you with the relevant skills to identify, select and assess the effectiveness of a range of environmental health interventions and enforcement options focusing on the key Environmental Health areas of housing and public health.

This module aims to provide you with an introduction to the methods of qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis, as well as enabling you to critically evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of published research papers.

This module will enable you to understand the development and influences of Health and Safety at Work legislation within the UK and Europe and how such statutory instruments can be applied to the workplace. The process of advising and assisting in the interpretation of health and safety at work legislation are explored, and the roles and responsibilities of employers and employees in the context of good health and safety at work are analysed.

This additional year of full-time study abroad would be at an approved higher education institution. The modules to be studied will be agreed in advance, and will be appropriate for your programme of study.

This module aims to engage you in student-negotiated academic activity, requiring creativity, self-motivation and the ability to draw on the knowledge and skills developed in other modules. The dissertation permits you to engage in a major project of your choice. It supports you while you investigate a specific environmental health issue, or set of issues, through individual study, using either the literature and relevant secondary sources, or empirical methods.

This module aims to facilitate the development of a holistic view of the professional nature of environmental health and its inter-relationships with other professional disciplines. It will be student led, although guided by tutors. You will be able to sit in on a range of lectures related to your topics but you will also be required to develop your own learning plans to achieve the required outcomes. Placement on this module is dependent on previous module results.

This module gives you the opportunity to identify and maximize your strengths and prepares you to compete in the job market. It will allow you to fully understand the career pathways open to you and the professional requirements of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health.

The aim of this module is to develop knowledge and skills to enable you to plan, implement, monitor and evaluate strategies for promoting the health and wellbeing of the population.

This module will explore the importance of sustainability and climate change and how they are impacting upon our health and the environment and what remedial action is being and can be taken to reduce these impacts.