Environmental Health and Safety/ Safety Management

The Environmental Health and Safety Combined B.S. - MSSM degree plan is a bachelor/master degree program that provides high-achieving students an opportunity to complete a bachelor’s and master’s degree in less time than would be required if the two degrees were done independently. Participants can graduate with a Master of Science in Safety Management degree in approximately one calendar year after completing a B.S. in Environmental Health and Safety. Students in this program complete 10 graduate level credits at undergraduate tuition rates. Students who have a minimum overall undergraduate GPA of 3.2 and have earned a 3.0 or above GPA in each of the 10-credits of graduate courses will be reclassified as a graduate student through Graduate Study.

Requirements for the Environmental Health and Safety, B.S. - MSSM Degree Plan

Students seeking the Combined B.S. - MSSM degree plan must complete a minimum 120 credits, including the following requirements:

1. Meet the university general education requirements

In order to graduate on-schedule without taking additional courses, it is highly recommended that students meet with an Undergraduate Academic Adviser concerning the selection of all of their general education courses. 

Each candidate for an Oakland University baccalaureate will need to satisfactorily complete approved courses in each of the following areas: Foundation, Exploration, Integration, Writing, U.S. Diversity and Capstone. For details, refer to the General Education Requirements section of the catalog.

2. Complete the Environmental Health and Safety required credits

• course Human Biology (4) 

  or course Biology I (4)   

• course Introduction to Chemical Principles (4)  

• course Introduction to Organic and Biological Chemistry (4)   

• course Healthy Workplace: Protecting People and the Environment (3)  

  • In lieu of course, students may substitute course or course

• course Environmental Health and Safety Training Methods (3)  

• course Occupational Safety and Health Standards (3)  

• course Professional Practice and Leadership Development (3)  

• course Basic Statistics for Health Sciences (3)  

  or course Introduction to Statistical Concepts and Reasoning (4)  

• course Safety and Health Administration and Programs (3)  

• course Fire Prevention and Protection (3) ​  

• course  Environmental Health and Safety Engineering and Technology (3)  

• course Fundamentals of Occupational Hygiene (3)  

• course Applied Environmental and Occupational Hygiene (4)  

• course Accident/Incident Investigation and Analysis (3)  

• course Construction Safety (3) 

• course Robotic and Automation System Safety Analysis (3) 

• course Environmental Standards (3) 

• course  Ergonomics (3) 

• course Industrial and Environmental Toxicology (3) 

• course Environmental Pollution and Controls (3)

• course Environmental Health and Safety Capstone Course Internship (4) 

  • may only be taken with permission of the EHS Program Director

• course  Introduction to Health and Health Behaviors (3) and course Introduction to Health and Health Behaviors Learning Lab (1) 

• course The Physics of Everyday Life (4) 

  or course General Physics I (4) 

• course Introduction to Psychology (4) *

• course Contemporary World Business (4)  *

• course Business Writing (4) 

Note

Courses above with * after them also satisfy university general education requirements

3. Complete a minimum of 14 credits of electives

• course Health Care Safety (4)

• course Hospital Safety and Health (4)

• course  Noise Control and Measurement (2)

• course Radiation Safety (3)

• course Ventilation and Emerging Technologies (4)

• course Radiation Exposure Control (2)

• course Environmental Health and Safety Research (3)

• course Global Environmental Governance (4)

  or course Global Environmental Governance (4)

• course Introduction to Human Resource Development (4)

• course Group/Team Development and Leadership (4)

• course Instructional Design and Development (4)

• course  Introduction to Labor and Employment Relations (4)

• course  Introduction to Public Sector Labor and Employment Relations (4)

• course Workforce Diversity (4)

• course  The Study of Labor and Work Organizations (4)

• course Advanced Work and the Law (4)

• course Survey of Management (3)

• course Introduction to Public Health (3) *

• course Introduction to Ethics (4)

• course Survey of Operations Management (3)

• course Composition I (4)

*or any other course approved by the program director in writing through the approved petition of exception form

Graduate Courses:

• course Advanced Safety and Health Administration (3)

• course Risk Assessment and Loss Control (3)

• course Introduction to EHS Research (4)

Note

If a student has a minimum overall GPA of 3.2, has at least junior standing, the student may apply to the Combined BS - MSSM program through the graduate office. Qualified applicants will be given a delayed admission to the MSSM program. (Full, formal admission will not take place until the student successfully completes their undergraduate degree with an overall GPA of 3.2).

A student accepted into the combined degree program continues his or her undergraduate degree with the substitution of three graduate courses as shown above.

Please note that students must be accepted into the combined degree program before taking any graduate level courses.

If a combined degree program student has successfully graduated with a BS degree and an overall GPA of 3.2, he or she is fully admitted to graduate MSSM program.

See graduate catalog for additional requirements for the combined B.S. - MSSM program.

All university and departmental requirements for the bachelor’s and master’s degree must be satisfied to earn both degrees.  The full number of credit hours required for the bachelor’s and master’s degree must be completed; this includes the 10-credit hours of graduate courses completed as an undergraduate and approved to count towards the undergraduate and graduate degree requirements.