Requirements and Curriculum

Students complete a minimum of 107 credits in the BS in Public Health before entering the MPH. A total of 13 credits taken during the MPH program are shared with the BS in public health degree.

All courses are 3 credit hours unless otherwise indicated.

• PUB 101 Introduction to Public Health
• PUB 102 Historical and Contemporary Public Health Problems
• PUB 200-level
  • Select two (2) 200-level PUB courses numbered 200-279
  • total of 6 credit hours minimum
• PUB 310 Biological, Personal, and Environmental Influences on Health and Disease
• PUB 315 Asking and Answering Scientific Questions in Public Health (4 credits)
• PUB 320 Models and Mechanisms for Understanding Public Health Issues
• PUB 325 Interventions to Improve Public Health
• PUB 330 Systems and Policies for Public Health

Students in the Public Health BS are waived from the following major requirements if admitted to the 3+2 program:

• PUB 300/400 Select three 300/400-level PUB courses numbered 340-379 or 400-479 (total of 9 credits)
• PUB 494 Capstone:  Modern Public Health Problems and Solutions (4 credits)

Nine credits of graduate electives taken during the MPH, 3 credits of the final MPH Culminating Project, and 1 credit of the MPH Field Training Experience are shared shared with the BS in Public Health to meet the 120-credit Bachelor's degree requirement. 

Students entering the major take a Communication Literacy II course.

• ENG 358 Writing in the Health Sciences

• PGY 300 Human Physiology (4 credits)
• CHE 101 General Chemistry (4 credits) and, CHE 113 General Chemistry Lab (1 credit); effective fall 2019
• PSC 101 Introduction to American Politics
• PSY 101/SOC 101
  • Select either PSY 101 Introductory Psychology or SOC 101 Introduction to Sociology
• STA 119 Statistical Methods (4 credits)

• Biostatistics
• Community Health and Health Behavior
• Environmental Health
• Epidemiology
• Health Services Administration
• Individualized MPH