Electives Elective courses fill the semester-hour requirement for the degree. Students and their advisers select courses appropriate to the student's professional goals. Any courses offered by the College of Public Health that the student has not already taken as a required course may be used as an elective, with the adviser's approval. The department offers an industrial hygiene emphasis in the M.S., to prepare students for professional careers in industrial hygiene as well as the broad field of occupational and environmental health. The M.S. industrial hygiene emphasis requires a minimum of 43 semester hours.
Students elect to take specialty and comprehensive exams or to write a thesis.
Requirements for the M.S. with industrial hygiene emphasis are as follows. Students who choose this option earn an M.A. in planning and an M.S. in occupational and environmental health. Separate admission to each program is required. The combined degree requires a minimum of 60 semester hours of course work. The Ph.D. program prepares students for professional and academic careers in environmental and occupational health.