POPULATION AND HEALTH SCIENCES

Online Master of Public Health

Course Schedule
Population and Health Sciences programs follow a trimester academic calendar with Fall term being September to
December, Winter being January to April, and a combined Spring/Summer term from May to August.
Master of Public Health students complete a total of 42 credits, 23 core course credits and 19 elective credits.

YEAR 1 - FALL (SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER)

WEEKS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

CORE PUBHLTH 512: Principles of Epidemiology for Public Health EXAM PUBHLTH 511: Nutrition and Public Health EXAM
CLASSES (3 CREDITS) PERIOD (2 CREDITS) PERIOD

PUBHLTH 508: Social Determinants of Health EXAM BIOSTAT 501: Introduction to Biostatistics EXAM
(1 CREDIT) PERIOD (3 CREDITS) PERIOD

YEAR 1 - WINTER (JANUARY TO APRIL)

WEEKS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

CORE PUBHLTH 513: Public Health Systems, Policy, EXAM PUBHLTH 514: Public Health Sciences and the Environment EXAM
CLASSES and Management (3 CREDITS) PERIOD (2 CREDITS) PERIOD

PUBHLTH 510: Communication Fundamentals EXAM PUBHLTH 515: Population Health EXAM
(1 CREDIT) PERIOD (3 CREDITS) PERIOD

YEAR 1 - SPRING/SUMMER (MAY TO AUGUST)

WEEKS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

ELECTIVES BIOSTAT 591: Introduction to R EXAM BIOSTAT 592: Applied Regression EXAM
SERIES I (2 CREDITS) PERIOD (3 CREDITS) PERIOD

EHS 601: Exposure Science and Health EXAM EHS 591: Environmental Toxicology in Communities EXAM
(3 CREDITS) PERIOD (3 CREDITS) PERIOD

EPID 590: Epidemiological Methods EXAM EPID 591: Social Epidemiology: From Frameworks to Policy EXAM
(3 CREDITS) PERIOD (3 CREDITS) PERIOD

HBEHED 590: Principles of Community Engagement EXAM HBEHED 591: Planning and Implementing Health EXAM
for Health Promotion (3 CREDITS) PERIOD Promotion Programs (3 CREDITS) PERIOD

HMP 603: Organization and Management of EXAM HMP 654: Operations Research and Control Systems EXAM
Healthcare Systems (2 CREDITS) PERIOD in Health Care (2 CREDITS) PERIOD

HMP 608: Healthcare Financial Accounting EXAM

(2 CREDITS) PERIOD

NUTR 590: Epigenetics and the Developmental Origins EXAM NUTR 591: Foundations of Maternal and Child Nutrition I EXAM
of Health and Disease (2 CREDITS) PERIOD (3 CREDITS) PERIOD

Variations in this schedule are possible due to faculty availability and program changes.

LEGEND n CORE CLASSES n ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES n H

 EALTH BEHAVIOR AND HEALTH EDUCATION n NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES

n BIOSTATISTICS n EPIDEMIOLOGY n  HEALTH MANAGEMENT AND POLICY

Course Schedule continued
Choose a minimum of 19 elective credits.

YEAR 2 - FALL (SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER)

WEEKS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
EXAM
CORE PUBHLTH 680: Applied Practice and Integrated Experience I (2 CREDITS) PERIOD

ELECTIVES BIOSTAT 594: Applied Generalized Linear Models EXAM BIOSTAT 595: Applied Longitudinal Analysis Using R EXAM
SERIES I (3 CREDITS) PERIOD (2 CREDITS) PERIOD

BIOSTAT 593: Design for Health Studies EXAM

(1 CREDIT) PERIOD

EHS 592: Infectious Disease and Emergency Response EXAM EHS 593: Risk Assessment for Decision-Making EXAM
in Communities (3 CREDITS) PERIOD (2 CREDITS) PERIOD

EPID 602: Applied Epidemiologic Data Analysis EXAM EPID 643: Surveillance and Publicly Available Datasets EXAM
(4 CREDITS) PERIOD (1 CREDIT) PERIOD

HBEHED 592: Health Program Evaluation EXAM HBEHED 593: Theoretical Foundations - Understanding EXAM
(3 CREDITS) PERIOD Psychosocial Determinants of Health (2 CREDITS) PERIOD

HMP 606: Managerial Accounting for Health Care EXAM HMP 607: Corporate Finance for Healthcare Administrators EXAM
Administrators (2 CREDITS) PERIOD (3 CREDITS) PERIOD

NUTR 592: Foundations of Maternal and Child Nutrition II EXAM NUTR 593: Food Security, Policy, and Programs EXAM
(3 CREDITS) PERIOD (3 CREDITS) PERIOD

YEAR 2 - WINTER (JANUARY TO APRIL) – BEGIN SERIES II

WEEKS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
EXAM
CORE PUBHLTH 681: Applied Practice and Integrated Experience II (2 CREDITS) PERIOD

ELECTIVE EHS 672: Healthy and Sustainable Food and Products - EXAM EHS 594: Global Environment and Health EXAM
SERIES II Life Cycle Assessment (3 CREDITS) PERIOD (2 CREDITS) PERIOD

EPID 592: Introduction to Spatial Epidemiology and EXAM EPID 674: Epidemiologic Data Analysis Using R EXAM
GIS for Public Health (4 CREDITS) PERIOD (2 CREDITS) PERIOD

HBEHED 597: Clear Health Communication EXAM HBEHED 671: Motivational Interviewing in Public Health EXAM
(3 CREDITS) PERIOD (3 CREDITS) PERIOD

HMP 660: Economics of Health Management and Policy I EXAM HMP 650: Dissemination and Implementation Science EXAM
(2 CREDITS) PERIOD In Public Health (3 CREDITS) PERIOD

NUTR 594: Molecular Nutrition EXAM NUTR 595: Nutrition and Genetic Epidemiology EXAM
(3 CREDITS) PERIOD (3 CREDITS) PERIOD

YEAR 2 - SPRING/SUMMER (MAY TO AUGUST)

WEEKS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

CORE PUBHLTH 516: Leadership Skills for Interprofessional Practice EXAM

(1 CREDIT) PERIOD

ELECTIVE EHS 570: Water Quality Management EXAM EHS 596: Climate, Justice, Health & Sustainability EXAM
SERIES II (2 CREDITS) PERIOD (2 CREDITS) PERIOD

EHS 597: Environmental Health and Policy EXAM

(2 CREDITS) PERIOD

EPID 594: Key Concepts in Spatial Analysis EXAM EPID 595: Applied Spatial Modeling EXAM
(2 CREDITS) PERIOD (3 CREDITS) PERIOD

HBEHED 620: Behavioral Research Methods in Public Health EXAM HBEHED 530: Techniques of Survey Research EXAM
(3 CREDITS) PERIOD (2 CREDITS) PERIOD

HMP 610: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health EXAM HMP 669: Data Management and Visualization in Health Care EXAM
(3 CREDITS) PERIOD (3 CREDITS) PERIOD

NUTR 596: Precision Nutrition within a Lifecourse EXAM NUTR 597: Precision Nutrition: Translating the Science EXAM
Epidemiological Framework (3 CREDITS) PERIOD to Practice (2 CREDITS) PERIOD

Variations in this schedule are possible due to faculty availability and program changes.

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