Program Coursework
Requirement | CH* | Pre-reqs* |
College Core and Foundation Courses | 16 | |
Required Concentration Courses | 12
| |
PHC 6764 | Global Hlth Principles and Contemporary Issues | 3 | |
PHC 6761 | Global Hlth Assessment Strategies | 3 | PR: PHC 6000, PHC 6050 |
PHC 6106 | Global Hlth Program Development and Administ. | 3 | |
PHC 6442 | Global Health Applications in the Field | 3 | PR: PHC 6106, 6761 |
Approved Electives (See selected examples of courses) | 12
| |
MPH Requirements
| 9 | |
PHC 6945 | Supervised Field Experience5 | 6 | See Note #1 |
PHC 6977 | Special Project | 3 | |
| Comprehensive Exam (CPH Exam) | Must be registered for two hours |
Total Minimum Credit Hours 49 | |
* CH=Credit Hours; Seq= Term Sequence; Pre-reqs= prerequisite courses unless noted as CR (co-requisite) or CC (Concurrent requisite)
- During 2nd semester meet with advisor and begin planning field experience. See http://health.usf.edu/publichealth/academicaffairs/fe/.
- Any grade below a C (C- to F) is required to be retaken. The grade will be included in the student's GPA.
- The College Reserves All Rights to Repeal And/or Modify.
- Term sequence given assuming Fall starting term.
- May be met through Peace Corps Master's International option.
Examples of common elective options:
Courses not included on the list below may be approved by the student’s advisor.
- PHC 6111 Global Primary Health Care Strategies
- PHC 6146 Health Services Planning and Evaluation
- PHC 6147 Managing Quality in Health Care (2)
- PHC 6511 Public Health Immunology
- PHC 6512 Vectors of Human Disease
- PHC 6513 Public Health Parasitology
- PHC 6074 Epidemiology of Diseases of Major Public Health Importance
- PHC 6700 Research Methods in Epidemiology
- PHC 6934 Intermediate Infectious Disease Epidemiology
- PHC 6535 International Maternal and Child Health
- PHC 6765 International Health Education
- PHC 6536 Population and Community Health
- PHC 6532 Women's Health Issues in Public Health
- PHC 6121 Vaccines
- PHC 6726 Community-Based Participatory Research for Tropical Health (6 credits)
- PHC 6518 Eco Health & the Ecology of Tropical Infectious Diseases