MSc Environmental Health (Distance Learning)

• We normally require an honours degree of 2.2 or above.
• We can consider applicants who do not meet the normal entry requirement, but who do have relevant professional experience or qualifications. In your application, you should describe in detail your professional experience and qualifications.

English Language Requirement:

• If English is not your first language, you will also need to demonstrate your English Language proficiency. For this course, in the British Council International English Language Test (IELTS) we normally require an overall score of 6.5 and not less than 6.5 in each component.

Core modules:

• Introduction to Environmental and Public Health (15 credits) - Learning how to critically analyse what determines health and illness in social, environmental and political contexts.
• Environmental Health Risk and Law (15 credits) - A critical understanding of environmental health legal systems, regulatory agenda and risk assessment
• Housing and Healthy Neighbourhoods (15 credits) - Looking closely at the relationship between housing, communities and health, and the risks associated with housing deficiencies.
• Food Control (15 credits) - Critical understanding of the food supply chain and evaluating the interventions required to control the risks to public health.  This Module contains the Professional Food Practice Assessment OR
• Food, Risk and Society (15 Credits) - Looks the relationship between food and health with a critical understanding of the food supply chain and how risks are managed.
• Environmental Protection and Sustainability (15 credits ) - Learning to understand the links between the environment, health and sustainability through the evaluation, mitigation and/or management of human activity that may cause environmental contamination of air, land and water.
• Health and Safety Management (15 credits) - Understanding how working environments may affect our health, safety and welfare and how we can minimise incidents and negative impacts through focused interventions.
• Health Promotion (15 credits) - Learning how to devise and evaluate approaches to address health inequalities within communities.
• Quantitative Health Research (15 credits) - Critical analysis and interpretation of epidemiological studies, in preparation for the research aspect of the course dissertation.
• Environmental Health Professional Practice (15 credits) - Critical application of environmental theory into practice through case studies
• Dissertation (45 credits) - Design and execute a planned research study based on relevant methodology within an appropriate research framework.