Work with your Faculty Advisor to decide which courses you need to take
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| title | USF and College Catalogs |
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The requirements for your degree program are contained in the USF catalog for the year you start your degree. When a new catalog is released subsequently, you have the choice of following the new catalog or the one you started with. The USF Graduate School has current and archived catalogs for all USF degrees and programs, available at this link: http://www.grad.usf.edu/catalog.php. There is also a College catalog, although the USF Catalog has precedence. Current and archived College catalogs are available here: College of Public Health Catalog |
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| title | Program of Study (POS) Form |
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You can find your PhD program of study form on this page: Program of Study Index. Select your admission year (or a later year) and use that form. You will document which courses you are taking or substituting while admitted to the PhD program, which courses you are transferring from another degree program, and which courses you can waive because of prior learning or experience. For the processes to document these different categories, please see the section on Prior Learning below. | Expand |
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| title | Summary Section of POS |
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| Fill out your student information, and look at the degree requirements summary. This part shows how you intend to meet the graduation requirements for the degree. You will have to show how you completed the pre-req courses, core courses, focus area courses, other elective courses, and culminating requirements. You will total the credits you have taken, transferred, or waived, based on your entries on the subsequent pages. Please read the notes on this page carefully. You have to determine how you will meet the 72 credit minimum while not exceeding the transfer limit. |
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| title | Pre-requisite Courses on POS |
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| Students must have taken the public health master's level core courses (or an equivalent curriculum), with a B or better grade. Show where you took the courses and what grade you received. If you haven't taken these courses yet, please look whether your experience in public health might allow you to waive that course. Please see the Prior Learning section below for information on how to document that. If you need to take these courses, you can do it at USF or you can do it at another accredited university in your home state. We will need to see your transcripts to verify this. Please note that these courses are not counted as part of the 72-credit PhD program of study. |
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| The core courses are divided into three clusters. You need to keep track of whether you are taking the course during your admission to the DrPH program, whether you have taken courses you can transfer in to the degree, or whether you can waive any of these because of your prior learning and experience. There are three separate columns for keeping track of this. If you are transferring in a course, you must have received a B or better. |
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| title | Elective Courses on POS |
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| There are no required elective courses in the DrPH. However, if you transfer or waive a significant number of courses, you may have to add credit hours to achieve the 90 credits required. If so, you can enter those courses here. |
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| title | Culminating Requirements on POS |
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| There are three culminating requirements for the DrPH degree. More information on each of these can be found here: Complete the DrPH requirements - Written qualifying exam
- Practice-based field study (9 credit hours of PHC 7908 Specialized Study)
- Practice‐based dissertation (9 credit hours of PHC 7980 Dissertation)
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| You will first complete the POS form with just your Faculty Advisor. Once you and your advisor agree on this plan, please submit a copy to the program director. After you form a dissertation committee, your committee members will need to also approve this plan and sign the form. |
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