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Develop your practice, integrate your learning, and graduate!
In addition to coursework, the DrPH program includes requirements for applied practice experiences and integrated learning experiences. While you are completing your required coursework for the DrPH program, you can work on the applied practice experiences that will develop your public health practice skills. Once you finish the coursework, you will integrate your learning by taking a qualifying examination and producing a practice-based dissertation.
DrPH Applied Practice Experiences
All DrPH students will engage in one or more practice-based experiences. The applied practice experiences should develop the student’s advanced practice and leadership skills and knowledge through completion of meaningful projects for public health organizations, including government, non-government, non-profit, industrial, and for-profit settings. These can include the student’s own work setting, or another setting that the student selects, and the student must identify a mentor in the organization who will guide the student during these experiences.
DrPH Qualifying Examination & Admission to Candidacy
As soon as the substantial majority of the course work is completed, the student must pass a written qualifying examination covering the subject matter in the major and related fields. This examination may be supplemented by an oral examination. Students must be enrolled for a minimum of two (2) hours of graduate credit in their discipline at the time they take the qualifying examination. If the exam is taken between semesters, students must be enrolled for a minimum of two (2) hours of graduate credit in the semester before or following the exam.
DrPH Practice-Based Dissertation
The student is ready for the dissertation process after successful completion of the qualifying examination and admission to candidacy. The student is required to complete a minimum of six credits in PHC 7980 while working on the dissertation, and must enroll in at least two credits in the semester of graduation. Up to three credits of directed research can be utilized towards the dissertation credits, so long as the student meets the total number of credits required to graduate. All students must follow the University's guidelines for Theses and Dissertations. Students participating in the thesis/dissertation process are required to pay a processing fee.
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