Program Requirements & Curriculum
General Requirements
MPH degree graduates will be trained principally as health policy analysts. They will have a rich background in epidemiology, health economics, health behavior, health administration, health policy and policy analysis, and statistical and qualitative analytic skills.
A completed MPH degree requires an overall 42 credit hours, to include:
- 33 CORE credits (Internship to be completed within the 33)
- 9 Elective credits
Students can set their own pace from part-time to full-time. With appropriate planning, the program's requirements may be completed in 3-4 semesters and a summer. Other students prefer to follow a more relaxed pace.
Required MPH Core courses (33 CORE credits)
1st Year Required Courses:
URP 5525 | Health Behavior & Education or HSC 5930 Health Behavior |
PHC 5300 | Environmental Health |
PUP 5605 | Health Services Organization & Policy (must be taken 1st semester) |
URP 5521 | Public Health Epidemiology or PHC 5001 Public Health Epidemiology |
ECP 5538 | Health Policy Statistics (must be taken within 1st year) |
2nd Year Required Courses
PHC 6110 | Comparative Health or PUP 5932 Comparative Health |
PAD 5935 | Healthcare Finance |
PAD 5935 | Healthcare Management |
PAD 5945 | Internship (Prerequisite: Health Service Org & Epidemiology & Statistics) |
SPUP 5607 | Politics of Health Policy |
SYA 5458 | Data Analysis for Public Health (Capstone Course 1) |
Electives (9 Credits)
Electives selections can be tailored to suit a student's needs and interests, such as policy, business, economics, epidemiology, administration, sociology, statistics and other fields.
Current approved MPH electives (subject to change on availability)
EAP 5845 | Academic Writing for International Grad Students (Int’l Students ONLY) |
ECP 5536 | Economics of Health |
FOS 5205 | Food, Safety, and Quality |
GEO 5451 | Medical Geography |
GEO 5453 | Global Health |
GIS 5101 | Intro to GIS (must also take GIS5101L) |
HUN 5297 | Eating Disorders, Body Image and Healthy Weight Maintenance |
LIS 5418 | Introduction to Health Informatics |
LIS 5419 | Consumer Health Informatics |
LIS 5631 | Health Information Sources |
LIS 5661 | Government Information |
INR 5935 | Politics of Hunger and Malnutrition |
PAD 5845 | Public Health & Emergency Management |
PHC 5003 | Chronic Disease Epidemiology |
PHC 6002 | Infectious Disease Epidemiology |
POS 5698 | Comparative Federalism |
RCS 5080 | Medical Aspects of Disability |
SOW 5455 | Grant Writing and Grant Management |
SYA 6933 | Neighborhoods & Health (Special Topic) |
SYA 6933 | Becoming an Adult in Strat. Society (Special Topic) |
SYA 6933 | Sexual and Reproductive Health |
SYA 6933 | Health and Life Course (Special Topic) |
SYA 6933 | Medical Sociology (Special Topic) |
SYD 5045 | Intro to Demography |
SYD 5133 | Population Data |
SYD 5136 | Social Epidemiology |
SYD 5215 | Health and Survival |
SYD 5225 | Fertility |
SYO 5416 | Stress and Mental Health |
SYO 6407 | Race, Ethnicity, and Health |
URP 5059 | Community Involvement and Public Participation |
URP 5526 | Healthy Cities, Healthy Communities (Special Topic) |
URP 5272 | Urban and Regional Info Systems (not approve if other GIS course already taken) |
Curriculum
Intership - PHC 5945
200-hour internship
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