Environmental Health - MSc/Postgraduate Diploma

Studies focus on key current environmental health concerns, and cover public health, food safety, housing, health and safety at work, and pollution management. The core modules are:

• Environmental Health Principles and Practice - A critical understanding of environmental health legal systems, risk assessment, employability skills and how they apply in practice through field visits, and input from experienced practitioners and employers.
• Food Control - Developing an understanding of food safety situations along with the skills needed to assess and control them effectively. This is through a combination of teaching and practical sessions.
• Pollution Management - Learning to understand, evaluate and mitigate aspects and processes of human activity that can cause environmental contamination of air (including noise), water and land.
• Health and Safety Management - How working environments can affect our health, safety and welfare and how we can minimise incidence and negative effects through target-based interventions.
• Housing - Looking closely at the relationship between housing, communities and health, and the risks associated with housing deficiencies.
• Introduction to Public Health - Learning how to critically analyse what determines health and illness in social, environmental and political contexts.
• Health Promotion - Evaluating approaches to tackling health inequalities within communities.
• Quantitative Health Research - Critical analysis and interpretation of epidemiological studies, in preparation for the research aspect of the course dissertation.
• Dissertation - Design and execute a planned research study based on relevant methodology within an appropriate research framework.

Please also note this structure is for the full-time course delivery only. For part-time delivery, the same modules will be studied. However, the structure will differ.

The University continually enhances our offer by responding to feedback from our students and other stakeholders, ensuring the curriculum is kept up to date and our graduates are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need for the real world. This may result in changes to the course. If changes to your course are approved, we will inform you.

The course is supported fully by on-line material and library access, and comprises a careful balance of individual and group learning. Group sessions are designed to take advantage of the wide range of practical and professional skills and experience our students bring to the mix.

For more details see our full glossary of learning and teaching terms.

This course is 15 months full-time or three years part-time, starting in September.

It is structured to accommodate students who wish to combine work with day-release study. Many of our students combine exisiting or new employment with their studies. The Course Leader is happy to discuss individual's specific arrangements.

UWE also run a MSc Environmental Health (Distance Learning).

The Master's degree requires an accumulation of 180 credits. Modules are mostly 15 credits, with one worth 30, and the dissertation at 45.

Assessment is by written exams, oral presentation, poster display or practical sessions, depending on the module - and your Master's dissertation.

For more details see our full glossary of assessment terms.