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Dec 21, 2024
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2024-2025 Course Catalog
Occupational Health and Safety, Ph.D.
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The Doctor of Philosophy in Occupational Health and Safety is designed to meet the needs of the highest skilled professionals to become the leaders who support, advance, and expand the occupational health and safety field. This program provides a path for occupational health and safety professionals to explore new ground in the evolving field at the local, national, and global levels. Graduates will contribute to the occupational health and safety field through the creation of new ideas in response to the impact of increasing technology. Students who complete the program can expect to fill executive and senior-level positions in commercial companies as well as local, state, and federal government.
All required courses are offered exclusively online in an 8-week asynchronous format.
Student Outcomes
Upon graduation, graduates will be able to
- Integrate and synthesize alternate, divergent, or contradictory perspectives or ideas fully within the field of Occupational Health and Safety.
- Present scholarly work on Occupational Health and Safety via appropriate communication channels.
- Demonstrate advanced knowledge and competencies in Occupational Health and Safety.
- Analyze existing theories to draw data-supported conclusions in Occupational Health and Safety.
- Execute a plan to complete a significant piece of scholarly research in Occupational Health and Safety.
- Evaluate the legal, social, economic, environmental, and ethical impact of actions within Occupational Health and Safety and demonstrate advanced knowledge and competency to Integrate the results in the leadership decisionmaking process.
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Course Requirements
Doctor of Philosophy 60 Credits
Notes
- This program may be completed with a minimum of 60 credit hours, but may require additional credit hours, depending on the time required to complete the dissertation/publication research. Students who are not prepared to defend after completion of the 60 credits will be required to enroll in RSC-899, a one-credit, eight-week continuation course.
- Students are required to be continuously enrolled/registered in the RSC-899 course until they successfully complete their dissertation defense/exegesis.
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