MPH Program of Study

(Also see the USF Graduate Catalog, Public Health section)

In addition to the graduate degree program requirements as specified in the Graduate Catalog, each student should have a written, flexible program of study that includes the student's choice of Catalog year, choice of concentration, cognate, or other options available in the degree program, and a tentative identification of other appropriate choices available to the student in the program, which may (but does not need to) include specific courses. A program of study is not a guarantee that specific courses will be available in a specific semester or that statutory and regulatory requirements will not change during the student's enrollment in the program. As required or appropriate, the program of study should be revisited and modified by the student and the student's advisor/major professor(s).

All M.P.H. students are required to successfully complete a minimum of 42 credit hours.

Course Requirements

Program Core Course - 1 hour

PHC 6600 History & Systems of Public Health

Foundation Courses* - 15 hours (Choose track 1 or track 2)

Track 1 (current foundation courses available to all students)

PHC 6000 Epidemiology (3 hours)
PHC 6050 Biostatistics I (3 hours)
PHC 6102 Principles of Health Policy and Management (3 hours)
PHC 6357 Environmental and Occupational Health (3 hours)
PHC 6410 Social and Behavioral Sciences Applied to Health (3 hours)

Track 2 (alternate foundation courses available to full-time, on-campus students)

PHC 6080 Population Assessment: Part 1 (5 hours)
PHC 6081 Population Assessment: Part 2 (3 hours)
PHC 6140 Translation to Practice (3 hours)
6000-level Electives on a public health topic (4 hours)

Concentration (variable hours, see concentration section for details)

Courses in specialty areas (12 credits minimum)
Electives (variable)
Field experience (1-12 credits, see field experience details)

Special project (3 hours, see special project details)

Comprehensive Exam (must be registered for 2 credit hours, see comprehensive/CPH exam details)

* Students in the Biostatistics concentration who have previously taken introductory statistics courses and have a strong mathematical background must take the more advanced level biostatistics course "PHC 6057: Biostatistical Inference I" instead of "PHC 6050: Biostatistics I". However, if a student does not have this prior training in introductory statistics coursework then she/he can take both PHC 6050 Biostatistics I and PHC 6057 Biostatistical Inference I.