10/25/2016
Program Assessment Part I.
Mission Statement, Goals, Program level Student Learning Outcomes, & Curriculum Map
Due by: December 15, 2016
Please complete the form below for each program within your department and submit it electronically to the office of Institutional Effectiveness and Strategic Planning at by the above due date.
Department & Program: / Earth and Physical SciencesEnvironmental Health Science
Department Chair: / Timothy Paglione
Department/Program Liaison: / Ratan Dhar
Other contributors: / Click here to enter name of participating faculty
Completed by: / Ratan Dhar
Date submitted: / 2/8/2017
I. Program mission statement
The quality of air, water, food and life has a profound impact on public health and safety. The Environmental Health Science Program at York College is designed to serve the students with a special interest in enhancing the quality of human’s physical environment and improving public health in general. The program aims to meet the following objectives:
- to advance our understanding of how environmental agents may affect health in order to promote health and prevent disease.
- to promote understanding the relationships between exposure and disease, and translating this knowledge into science-based policy.
- to reinforce and enhance basic technical and quantitative skills of students through working with professional courses, course-based research and internships.
- to prepare the students for careers in industrial, governmental, health care, urban affairs, and educational agencies concerned with environmental health, occupational health, public health, and community interaction.
II. List program goals [4 recommended; but feel free to add more]
1. to prepare students to recognize the most critical, modern-day environmental/public health issues and to respond to the challenge and responsibility of the problems.
- to serve the college student population through offering several general education science core courses.
- to engage students in local environmental issues to build the community connections in order to improve the health and safety of the society through bringing together scientists and local voices.
- to prepare students as professional workforce to secure health and safety of nation and for other purposes.
- to produce successful graduates with appropriate course-based training and education as well as intense experiential learning
III. Clearly state the Program level student learning outcomes [4 recommended; but feel free to add more]
1. Gain fundamental science experience through basic science course with hands-on laboratory and field modules.
2. Identify current environmental risk assessment methods through demonstrating understanding on federal and state regulatory programs, guidelines and authorities that control environmental health issues.
3. Acquire basic knowledge in approaches for assessing, preventing and controlling environmental hazards that pose risks to human health and safety.
4. Gain basic and advanced technical experience in the use of sophisticated and state-of-the-art instrumentation in the environmental science fields.
5. Participate in on-the-job learning through an environmental health internship.
6. Learn and apply environmental health fundamentals by working with faculty on independent research projects.
7. Upon completion of the EHS courses successfully, the students can prepare themselves for either a career in areas of environmental health science/engineering and graduate study in Environmental Science, Public Health, Industrial Hygiene and related field in Environmental Health Profession.
IV. Curriculum Map (add/delete columns and rows as needed). Begin the curriculum map with at least three major courses, i.e. the introductory course required for students in the major, capstone course and research method course.
*Course # / Program Level Student Learning OutcomesSLO 1 / SLO 2 / SLO 3 / SLO 4 / SLO 5 / SLO 6 / SLO 7
EHS 140 / x / x
EHS 211 / x
EHS 212 / x / x / x / x
EHS 340 / x / x / x / x
EHS 420 / x / x / x / x / x
EHS 427 / x / x / x
EHS 428 / x / x / x / x
EHS 430 / x / x / x
EHS 498/499 / x / x / x / x
(*Any required activities or learning experiences such as field work, internship, etc. can also be included under the course column.)
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