Recommended Courses for Your First Semester – Fall Cohorts

Registering for more than 12 credits is not recommended. Below are lists of courses for each program presented in priority order. Students should register for the courses in the order listed. For example, for MPH in Community Health students should first register for PUBH 601, followed by PUBH 613, PUBH 611, etc. If a student registers for 4 courses and later needs to drop a course, then the course to drop should be PUBH 612.

Note that all PhD, MPH, and MS students must complete PUBH 601: Foundations of Public Health Knowledge, a zero-credit series of online modules.

MPH in Community Health

1. PUBH 601: Foundations of Public Health Knowledge (0 credit, online modules)
2. PUBH 613: Designs, Concepts, and Methods in Public Health Research (3 credits)
3. PUBH 611: Health Equity, Communication, and Advocacy (3 credits)
4. PUBH 612: Designing and Evaluating Public Health Interventions (3 credits)
5. PUBH 610: Public Health Leadership and Management (3 credits)

MPH in Environmental & Occupational Health

1. PUBH 601: Foundations of Public Health Knowledge (0 credit, online modules)
2. PUBH 613: Designs, Concepts, and Methods in Public Health Research (3 credits)
3. EOHS 633: Introduction to Environmental and Occupational Health (3 credits)
4. PUBH 610: Public Health Leadership and Management (3 credits)
5. EOHS 630: Principles of GISc (3 credits)

MPH in Epidemiology & Biostatistics

1. PUBH 601: Foundations of Public Health Knowledge (0 credit, online modules)
2. PUBH 613: Designs, Concepts, and Methods in Public Health Research (3 credits)
3. PUBH 614: Quantitative and Qualitative Data Analysis Methods in Public Health Research (3 credits)
4. PUBH 611: Health Equity, Communication, and Advocacy (3 credits)
5. PUBH 612: Designing and Evaluating Public Health Interventions (3 credits)

MPH in Health Policy & Management

1. PUBH 601: Foundations of Public Health Knowledge (0 credit, online modules)
2. PUBH 613: Designs, Concepts, and Methods in Public Health Research (3 credits)
3. PUBH 610: Public Health Leadership and Management (3 credits)
4. PUBH 611: Health Equity, Communication, and Advocacy (3 credits)
5. PUBH 612: Designing and Evaluating Public Health Interventions (3 credits)

MPH in Public Health Nutrition

1. PUBH 601: Foundations of Public Health Knowledge (0 credit, online modules)
2. PUBH 613: Designs, Concepts, and Methods in Public Health Research (3 credits)
3. FNPH 620: Community Nutrition Education (3 credits)
4. PUBH 611: Health Equity, Communication, and Advocacy (3 credits)
5. PUBH 612: Designing and Evaluating Public Health Interventions (3 credits)

MS in Environmental & Occupational Health

1. PUBH 601: Foundations of Public Health Knowledge (0 credit, online modules)
2. PUBH 613: Designs, Concepts, and Methods in Public Health Research (3 credits)
3. EOHS 633: Introduction to Environmental and Occupational Health (3 credits)
4. EOHS 623: Principles of Industrial Hygiene (3 credits)
5. Elective I (3 credits)

MS in Population Health Informatics

1. PUBH 601: Foundations of Public Health Knowledge (0 credit, online modules)
2. EPID 630: Fundamentals of Population Health Informatics
3. PUBH 613: Designs, Concepts, and Methods in Public Health Research (3 credits)
4. PUBH 610: Public Health Leadership and Management (3 credits)
5. PUBH 611: Health Equity, Communication, and Advocacy (3 credits)

MS in Global & Migrant Health Policy

1. PUBH 601: Foundations of Public Health Knowledge (0 credit, online modules)
2. PUBH 613: Designs, Concepts, and Methods in Public Health Research (3 credits)
3. HPAM 627: Migration and Health (3 credits)
4. HPAM 626: International and Migrant Health Organizations (3 credits)
5. Elective I [consider HPAM 600-level course] (3 credits)

MS in Health Communications for Social Change

1. PUBH 601: Foundations of Public Health Knowledge (0 credit, online modules)
2. PUBH 613: Designs, Concepts, and Methods in Public Health Research (3 credits)
3. PUBH 610: Public Health Leadership and Management (3 credits)
4. PUBH 611: Health Equity, Communication, and Advocacy (3 credits)
5. CHSS 626: Health and Media Literacy for Public Health Advancement

Advanced Certificate in Public Health

1. PUBH 613: Designs, Concepts, and Methods in Public Health Research (3 credits)
2. PUBH 610: Public Health Leadership and Management (3 credits)
3. PUBH 611: Health Equity, Communication, and Advocacy (3 credits)

Advanced Certificate in Industrial Hygiene

1. EOHS 623: Principles of Industrial Hygiene (3 credits)
2. Selective (choose between EOHS 627: Noise and Radiation Hazards and Controls [3 credits] or EOHS 633: Introduction to Environmental and Occupational Health [3 credits])

PhD in Community Health and Health Policy

1. PUBH 601: Foundations of Public Health Knowledge (0 credit, online modules)
2. PUBH 803: Public Health Perspectives on Science (3 credits)
3. PUBH 801: Epidemiological Methods I (3 credits)
4. PUBH 802: Applied Biostatistics I (3 credits)

PhD in Environmental and Planetary Health Sciences

1. PUBH 601: Foundations of Public Health Knowledge (0 credit, online modules)
2. PUBH 803: Public Health Perspectives on Science (3 credits)
3. PUBH 801: Epidemiological Methods I (3 credits)
4. PUBH 802: Applied Biostatistics I (3 credits)

PhD in Epidemiology

1. PUBH 601: Foundations of Public Health Knowledge (0 credit, online modules)
2. PUBH 803: Public Health Perspectives on Science (3 credits)
3. EPID 821: Epidemiological Methods II (3 credits)
4. BIOS 821: Applied Biostatistics II (3 credits)