This unique program,
limited to Ph.D. students, offers a joint degree between two schools of
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey: the Graduate School of
Biomedical Sciences (GSBS) and the School of Environmental and Biological
Sciences (SEBS). Its purpose is to provide instruction and research experiences
examining human contact with chemical, physical, and biological agents or
products, and the relationships of such contacts with human activity patterns.
Candidates
must take:
32:832:595 Environmental Exposure Measurements and Assessment (3)
16:115:556 (IDST-5000) Ethical Scientific Conduct (1)
16:375:511 Journal Club in Exposure Science (1)
Candidates must take two semesters of Journal Club in Exposure Science, but three
semesters are strongly recommended.
Candidates
also must take at least 21 credits from the following courses, with at least
one course being taken from each area. Substitutions may be allowed with written approval by the student's adviser and program
director.
Epidemiology
16:375:508 Interpretational Epidemiology (3)
16:832:520 Principles of Epidemiology (3)
Environmental
Science
16:375:523 Fate and Transport (3)
16:375:541 Environmental Models (3)
32:832:589 Advanced Environmental Hygiene Measurements (4)
Health
32:832:541 Toxicology (3)
32:832:586 Environmental Risk Assessment (3)
Statistics
16:960:467 Applied Multivariant Analyses (3)
16:960:590 Design of Experiments (3)
16:970:527 Advanced Multivariant Methods: Environmental and Health Issues (3)
Elective
courses are selected in consultation with
the dissertation adviser and can be drawn from courses throughout Rutgers
University.