Offered Every winter semester (next offering: Winter 2025)
Last offered Winter 2024
Prerequisites: None
Undergraduates are allowed to enroll in this course.
Description: This course examines principles and applications of epigenetics as they relate to human nutrition, environmental exposures and disease etiology, including mechanisms and policy implications. Case studies evaluate processes using animal and human examples drawn from the literature. Students will be introduced to laboratory methods and emerging technologies for examining epigenetics.
This course is cross-listed with NUTR 660 in the NUTR 660 department.
Description: Professional Development in Environmental Health Sciences is an upper graduate-level course designed for Doctoral Students. Other students and post-doctoral fellows/auditors are welcome, if space allows. The course will cover professional development skills essential to early career success and to prepare students for a professional career in environmental health sciences.
Learning Objectives: 1. Develop effective job search strategies
2. Develop career appropriate documents (CV, resume, biosketch)
3. Critically assess personal values and their integration into career planning and goal development
4. Compose a narrative around your research interest and career goals
5. Explain and exhibit the underlying concepts around networking
6. Simulate interviewing and negotiation tactics for first career positions in various formats (virtual, in-person)
