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department Environmental Health Sciences (X) |
Seminar, one hour. Discussion of and critical thinking about topics of current intellectual importance, taught by faculty members in their areas of expertise and illuminating many paths of discovery at UCLA. P/NP grading.
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Tutorial (supervised research or other scholarly work), three hours per week per unit. Entry-level research for lower division students under guidance of faculty mentor. Students must be in good academic standing and enrolled in minimum of 12 units (excluding this course). Individual contract required; consult Undergraduate Research Center. May be repeated. P/NP grading.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Preparation: one course each in chemistry and biology. Introduction to environmental health, including coverage of sanitary principles and chronic and acute health effects of environmental contaminants. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, four hours. Preparation: one year of calculus, one course each in physics, organic chemistry, and physical chemistry. Designed for science, engineering, and public health students. Role of regional or long-range transport, and atmospheric lifetimes and fates of airborne chemicals in phenomena such as photochemical smog, acid deposition, stratospheric ozone depletion, accumulation of greenhouse gases, and regional and global distribution of volatile toxic compounds. Concurrently scheduled with course C225. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, four hours. Preparation: strong quantitative background and good understanding of statistical methods. Introduction to core methods of environmental economics, policy analysis, basic econometrics, and survey design. Application of case-study approach with considerable memo and paper writing and revision. Emphasis on critical thinking about normative and positive aspects of environmental policies. Normative issues include evaluation of benefits and costs of environmental policies. Exploration of why some environmental policies are readily adopted by society, while other policies go unheeded or lead to perverse and counterproductive outcomes. Concurrently scheduled with course C235. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, four hours. Preparation: one course each in biology, organic chemistry, and biochemistry. Essential aspects of toxicology, with emphasis on human species. Absorption, distribution, excretion, biotransformation, as well as basic toxicologic processes and organ systems. Concurrently scheduled with course C240. Letter grading.
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Lecture, four hours. Preparation: one year each of chemistry, physics, and calculus. Basic theory and application of aerosol science to environmental health, including properties, behavior, sampling, and measurement of aerosols and quantitative problems. Concurrently scheduled with course C252D. P/NP or letter grading.
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Seminar, four hours. Requisites: course C140, Epidemiology 100. Designed to provide students with opportunity to review scientific basis for association of selected occupational and environmental exposures with disease. Special emphasis on critical evaluations of literature. Attention specifically to interface of science and regulatory standards. Concurrently scheduled with course C257. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, four hours. Recommended requisites: Chemistry 14A and 14B, or 20A and 20B. Evaluation of how and where and in what form and concentration organic pollutants are distributed in aquatic environments. Study of mass transport mechanisms moving organic chemicals between phases, biological degradation and accumulation, and chemical reactions. Effect of humic substances on these processes. Concurrently scheduled with course C264. P/NP or letter grading.
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(Same as Civil Engineering M166.) Lecture, four hours; discussion, two hours; outside study, six hours. Recommended requisite: Civil Engineering 153. Microbial cell and its metabolic capabilities, microbial genetics and its potentials, growth of microbes and kinetics of growth, microbial ecology and diversity, microbiology of wastewater treatment, probing of microbes, public health microbiology, pathogen control. Letter grading.
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(Same as Civil Engineering M166L.) Laboratory, two hours; outside study, two hours. Corequisite: course M166. General laboratory practice within environmental microbiology, sampling of environmental samples, classical and modern molecular techniques for enumeration of microbes from environmental samples, techniques for determination of microbial activity in environmental samples, laboratory setups for studying environmental biotechnology. Letter grading.
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Lecture, four hours. Preparation: basic understanding of biology and chemistry at level required for admission to University of California at undergraduate level in engineering, physical, or natural sciences. Introduction to commonly used vocabulary in nanoscience required to appreciate biological interactions and potential toxicity of nanomaterials. Discussion of synthesis and physical-chemical characterization of engineered nanomaterials. Development of understanding of unique properties of engineered nanomaterials and how these properties contribute to biological interactions. Relation of properties of engineered nanomaterials to their potential for transport, reactivity, uptake, and toxicity in natural environments and in body. Concurrently scheduled with course C280. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, six hours. Preparation: one year of undergraduate biology, calculus, chemistry, and physics. Multidisciplinary aspects of environmental health sciences in context of public health for environmental health majors. Concurrently scheduled with course C200A. Letter grading.
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Lecture, six hours. Requisite: course C185A. Multidisciplinary aspects of environmental health sciences in context of public health for environmental health majors. Concurrently scheduled with course C200B. Letter grading.
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(Formerly numbered 199.) Tutorial, four hours. Limited to juniors/seniors. Individual intensive study, with scheduled meetings to be arranged between faculty member and student. Assigned reading and tangible evidence of mastery of subject matter required. May be repeated for credit. Individual contract required. P/NP or letter grading.
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(Formerly numbered 200A.) Lecture, six hours. Preparation: one year of undergraduate biology, calculus, chemistry, and physics. Multidisciplinary aspects of environmental health sciences in context of public health for environmental health majors. Concurrently scheduled with course C185A. Letter grading.
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(Formerly numbered 200B.) Lecture, six hours. Requisite: course C200A. Multidisciplinary aspects of environmental health sciences in context of public health for environmental health majors. Concurrently scheduled with course C185B. Letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours. Preparation: one year of undergraduate biology, calculus, chemistry, and physics. Limited to nursing students. Introduction to physical agents, including noise, thermal environment, ionizing radiation, and nonionizing radiation. Exploration of exposure assessment of air pollution in urban areas, occupational exposure assessment for epidemiological inferences, exposure characteristics, air pollution and excess mortality, assessment of exposure to mixture chemicals, multimedia and ecological exposure assessment. Letter grading.
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Seminar, two hours. Requisites: courses C200A, C200B. Emphasis on health effects of air, water, environmental pollutants on man and review of research literature. May be repeated for credit. S/U or letter grading.
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Seminar, one hour. Requisites: courses C200A, C200B, 410A, 410B. Environmental chemistry aspects of environmental health sciences through multimedia analyses and biological and microbiological analyses. May be repeated for credit. Letter grading.
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Seminar, two hours. Discussion of various topics in ecotoxicology. Topics vary from term to term and include aspects of environmental chemistry, toxicology, and ecology. May be repeated for credit. S/U grading.
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Seminar, two hours. Discussion of various topics in exposure assessment. Topics vary by term and include aspects of population activity, microenvironments, types of monitoring (outdoor, indoor, personal, biomarkers), and multimedia sources of exposure. S/U grading.
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Seminar, two hours. Limited to environmental health sciences doctoral students. Presentation of current research of environmental health sciences doctoral students. May be repeated for credit. S/U grading.
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Seminar. two hours. Discussion of various topics in applied coastal ecology. Topics vary by term and include wetland ecology, restoration ecology, and ecology and management of coastal watersheds. May be repeated for credit. S/U grading.
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Lecture, two hours; laboratory, two hours. Introduction to geographic information systems (GIS), including use of GIS software, mapping, geocoding, and data analysis. S/U or letter grading.
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