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Application Criteria
 
An applicant is eligible for registration as a sanitarian within the State of Arizona if the applicant meets at least one of the following:

1. Successful completion of at least 30 semester hours in the natural sciences at an accredited college or university.

2. Completion of at least five years of employment as a sanitarian aide in either a recognized public health agency or private industry in a position directly related to environmental health and under the supervision of a Registered Sanitarian.

3. Satisfactorily completion of at least five years of full-time military service in the field of environmental health.

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Courses listed below are acceptable for the 30 semester hour requirement. [To convert quarter hours to semester hours, total the quarter hours of acceptable courses and multiply the total by 2/3. For example, 45 quarter hours is equivalent to 30 semester hours.]
 

Air Pollution
Anatomy
Bacteriology 
Biochemistry 
Biology
Botany 
Biophysics 
Biostatistics 
Cell Physiology
Chemical Engineering 
Chemistry 
Community Health 
Ecology
Embryology 
Endocrinology 
Entomology
Environmental Health
Environmental Diseases

Epidemiology
Food Bacteriology
Dairy Sciences
Genetics
Geophysics
Geology
Hazardous Waste 
Herpetology
Histology
Hydro Geology
Hydrology
Ichthyology
Industrial Hygiene
Infectious Diseases
Limnology
Microbiology
Molecular Biology
Occupational Safety

Ornithology
Parasitology
Pathology
Pharmacy
Physics
Physiology
Plant Taxonomy
Public Health
Radiological Health
Sanitary Engineering
Sewage Sanitation
Soil Science
Toxicology
Vector Control
Veterinary Science
Virology
Zoology

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