ENV HLT 201Foundations of Environmental Health
Environmental Health Sciences · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Introduction to foundational concepts, definitions, methods, and current topics in environmental health sciences. Examination of how individuals and communities are exposed to physical, biological, chemical, and psychosocial stressors in their ambient, built, social, and work environments; and how those stressors can result in poor health outcomes. Using a public health and environmental justice lens, students understand perspectives from multiple constituencies, as well as how various government agencies create and enforce environmental regulations and policies.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
ENV HLT 201
- ENV HLT 210Quantitative Exposure Assessment
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.