Microbiology Option: Environmental Health Track
| Freshman Year | Credits |
|---|---|
| CHMY 141 - College Chemistry I & CHMY 142 - College Chemistry I Lab | 4 |
| BIOB 160 - Principles of Living Systems (F, S) or BIOB 260 - Cellular and Molecular Biology | 4 |
| M 151Q - Precalculus (F, S, Su) or M 161Q - Survey of Calculus or M 171Q - Calculus I | 4 |
| CHMY 143 - College Chemistry II & CHMY 144 - College Chemistry II Lab | 4 |
| GPHY 284 - Intro to GIS Science & Cartog | 3 |
| Core and/or Electives | 11 |
| Year Total: | 30 |
| Sophomore Year | Credits |
| BIOM 210RN - Environmental Health Science (F) | 3 |
| CHMY 211 - Elements of Organic Chemistry & CHMY 212 - Elements of Organic Chemistry Lab or CHMY 321 and CHMY 322 or CHMY 123 - Introduction to Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry | 5 |
| PHSX 205 - College Physics I (F, S, Su) | 4 |
| NRSM 240 - Natural Resource Ecology (F) or NRSM 101 - Natural Resource Conservation or BIOE 370 - General Ecology or BIOM 415 - Microbial Diversity, Ecology, and Evolution or SFBS 146 - Introduction to Sustainable Food and Bioenergy Systems | 3 |
| BIOH 185 - Integrated Physiology I or BIOH 201 and BIOH 211 or ANSC 265 and ANSC 266 or KIN 221 - Health Anatomy & Physiology | 0-4 |
| BIOB 318 - Biometry or STAT 216Q - Introduction to Statistics or HDFS 271 - Statistical Measures of Well-Being | 3 |
| BIOM 250 - Microbiology for Health Sciences: Infectious Diseases | 3 |
| CORE and/or Electives | 7 |
| Year Total: | 28-32 |
| Junior Year | Credits |
| BIOM 360 - General Microbiology (F, S) | 5 |
| MBEH 498 - Internship (F, S, Su)) | 3 |
| EENV 387 - Environmental Laws and Regulations | 3 |
| CORE and/or Electives | 19 |
| Year Total: | 30 |
| Senior Year | Credits |
| BIOM 494 - Seminar/Workshop & BIOM 494 - Seminar/Workshop or MBEH 490R - Undergraduate Research | 2-3 |
| CHTH 440 - Principles of Epidemiology (F) | 3 |
| ENSC 407 - Environmental Risk Assessment (F) | 3 |
| BIOM 425 - Toxicology: Science of Poisons | 3 |
| CORE and/or Electives | 18-19 |
| Year Total: | 29-31 |
| Total Program Credits: | 120 |
Required Electives
Students must take a minimum of 12 credits of electives applicable to environmental health. While the courses listed in this first section are particularly recommended, and the second section lists other eligible electives; students work with their advisor to select electives most relevant to their career goals (even if not listed here).
Recommended electives
A minimum of 120 credits is required for graduation, with at least 42 course credits at 300 level or above.
| BIOM 419 | Programming for Biologists ( Programming for Biologists) | 3 |
| BIOM 430 | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 4 |
| BIOH 303 | Global Diseases and Health Disparities | 3 |
| LS 191 | Special Topics (Introduction to Global Health (F)) | 3 |
| ENSC 272CS | Water Resources (F) | 3 |
| ENSC 245IN | Soils (F) | 3 |
| ARCH 231CS | Issues in Sustainability | 3 |
| WRIT 221 | Intermediate Tech Writing | 3 |
| or WRIT 326 | Advanced Writing | |
| STAT 217 | Intermediate Statistical Concepts | 3 |
| or STAT 337 | Intermediate Statistics with Introduction to Statistical Computing | |
| CHTH 210 | Foundations in Community Health | 3 |
| CHTH 428 | Health Disparities (take alternate pre-reqs) | 3 |
Electives: Other
A minimum of 120 credits is required for graduation, with at least 42 course credits at 300 level or above.
| MBEH 490R | Undergraduate Research | 1-6 |
| MBEH 492 | Independent Study | 1-3 |
| AGSC 465R | Health, Agriculture, Poverty (F, S) | 4 |
| BCH 380 & BCH 381 | Biochemistry and Biochemistry Lab | 5 |
| BIOE 375 | Ecological Responses to Climate Change | 3 |
| BIOH 201 | Human Anatomy and Physiology I (F) | 5 |
| BIOH 303 | Global Diseases and Health Disparities (S) | 3 |
| BIOM 400 | Medical Microbiology (S) | 3 |
| BIOM 405 | Host-Associated Microbiomes (S) | 3 |
| BIOM 410 | Microbial Genetics (S) | 3 |
| BIOM 435 | Virology (F) | 3 |
| BIOM 450 | Microbial Physiology (F) | 3 |
| BIOM 452 | Soil & Envirnmntl Microbiology (F) | 3 |
| BIOB 410 | Immunology (F, S) | 3 |
| BIOO 262IN | Introduction to Entomology | 3 |
| BMGT 235 | Management (F) | 3 |
| CHMY 323 & CHMY 324 | Organic Chemistry II and Organic Chemistry II Lab | 4 |
| CHTH 317 | Health Behavior Theories | 3 |
| CHTH 428 | Health Disparities | 3 |
| MBEH 498 | Internship | 2-12 |
| ENSC 353 | Environmental Biogeochemistry | 3 |
| ENSC 444 | Watershed Hydrology (F) | 3 |
| ENSC 460 | Soil Remediation (S) | 3 |
| ENSC 461 | Restoration Ecology | 3 |
| ERTH 101IN | Earth System Sciences | 4 |
| GPHY 357 | GPS Fund/App in Mapping (F) | 3 |
| GPHY 384 | Adv GIS and Spatial Analysis (F, S) | 3 |
| GPHY 402 | Water and Society | 3 |
| M 161Q | Survey of Calculus (Calculus can count as elective if M151 taken at MSU) | 4 |
| or M 171Q | Calculus I | |
| NASX 310 | Native Cultures of North America | 3 |
| or NASX 450 | History of American Indians | |
| NASX 415 | Native Food Systems | 3 |
| NASX 476 | American Indian Policy and Law | 3 |
| NRSM 430 | Natural Resource Law | 3 |
| NUTR 221CS | Basic Human Nutrition (F, S, Su) | 3 |
| NUTR 226 | Food Fundamentals (S) | 3 |
| NUTR 227 | Food Fundamentals Lab (F, S) | 2 |
| NUTR 322 | Food Service System Management (F) | 3 |
| PHSX 207 | College Physics II | 4 |
| SFBS 346 | Sustainable Food and Bioenergy Systems Summer Field Course | 1 |
| SFBS 451R | Sustainable Food Systems | 3 |
| STAT 411 | Methods for Data Analysis I | 3 |
| STAT 412 | Methods for Data Analysis II | 3 |