MPH Program Requirements & Curriculum
2021-2022 MPH Graduate Handbook
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 or HSC 5930 | Health Behavior & Education or Health Behavior |
| PHC 5300 | Environmental Health |
| PUP 5605 | Health Services Organization & Policy (must be taken 1st semester) |
| URP 5521 or PHC 5001 | Public Health Epidemiology or Public Health Epidemiology |
| ECP 5538 | Health Policy Statistics (must be taken within 1st year) |
2nd Year Required Courses
| PHC 6110 or PUP 5932 | Comparative Health or Comparative Health |
| PAD 5216 | Healthcare Finance |
| PAD 5884 | Healthcare Management |
| PHC 5945 | Internship (Prerequisite: Health Service Org & Epidemiology & Statistics) |
| PUP 5607 | Politics of Health Policy |
| SYA 5458 | Statistics and Data Analysis |
33 CORE credits
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
Internship – PHC 5945
200-hour internship
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