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Master of Public Health: The Curriculum
The MPH Program at UWF is a 42-credit hour generalist online program, comprised of a set of core, required, and elective courses.
At UWF, our highest priorities are our students and the academic programs that serve them.
The online MPH program we have developed has been approved by regional partners serving on our
MPH Steering Committee, built
with program competencies based on guidelines set forth by the
Association of Schools of Public Health,
and is taught by a
dedicated team of faculty and practitioners.
The program employs the highest quality instructional methodologies, innovative delivery methods, and interactive approaches to engage students. Several MPH courses have undergone Quality Matters review and have met the standards. Other courses will be reviewed.
The
Quality Assurance Plan
within the School of Allied Health and Life Sciences at UWF
calls for regularly planned and evaluated quality enhancement initiatives,
with results reported annually to administrative offices and our regional accreditation agency.
This platform has been created to set the stage for an MPH program
that will serve future students at the national and global levels.
Starting Fall 2011, all students admitted into the MPH Program are required to complete a minimum of 12 semester hours per year.
Master of Public Health Core Courses |
(21 credits) |
| All students seeking a Master of Public Health degree must take all of the following courses: | |
| PHC 5050 Biostatistics | 3 |
| PHC 6000 Epidemiology for Public Health Professionals | 3 |
| PHC 699X Health Care Policy and Administration | 3 |
| PHC 5410 Social and Behavioral Sciences in Public Health | 3 |
| PHC 6300 Environmental Health | 3 |
| PHC 6946 Internship in Public Health | 6 |
Master of Public Health Required Courses | (15 credits) |
| All students seeking a Master of Public Health degree must take the following courses: | |
| PHC 5123 Scientific Basis of Public Health | 3 |
| PHC 6015 Epidemiological Study Design and Statistical Methods | 3 |
| PHC 6196 Computer Applications in Public Health | 3 |
| Choose one of the following: | |
| HSC 5205 Public Health Preparedness or | 3 |
| PHC 5102 Introduction to Public Health | 3 |
| Choose one of the following: | |
| PHC 6194 GIS Applications in Public Health or | 3 |
| PHC 6251 Disease Surveillance and Monitoring | 3 |
Elective Courses
|
(minimum of 6 credits) |
| PHC 5102 Introduction to Public Health (if not taken as a required course) | 3 |
| PHC 6194 GIS Applications in Public Health (if not taken as a required course) | 3 |
| PHC 6251 Disease Surveillance and Monitoring (if not taken as a required course) | 3 |
| BSC 5856 Bioterrorism | 3 |
| Directed Studies in Public Health | 3 |
| PHC 6005 Disease Transmission in the Urban Environment | 3 |
| PHC 6310 Environmental Toxicology | 3 |
| MCB 5273 Epidemiology of Infectious Disease | 3 |
| BUL 5605 Legal Fundamentals of Health Care and Public Health | 3 |
| HSC 6528 Strategies for Prevention of Infectious Diseases | 3 |
| PHC 699X Accident Investigation and Mitigation and PHC 699X Aerospace Toxicology (* required electives for military aerospace medicine residents) | 6* |
| Restricted Electives: up to 6 credits total (2 courses) may also be chosen from the course groupings below | |
| HSA 5436 Health Economics or HSA 5438 Business Analysis and Decision Making in Health Care or HSC 5655 Theoretical Foundations of Health Care Ethics | 3 |
| PHC 5355 Fundamentals of Occupational Safety and Health or PHC 5351 Occupational Safety in the Health Care Environment or PHC 5356 Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene | 3 |
| HSA 5197 Introduction to Medical Informatics or HSA 5198 Electronic Clinical Record Systems or HSC 5512 Health Care Quality, Statistics, and Database Management or BSC 5459 Introduction to Bioinformatics | 3 |
- In the above table, students may only count 6 credits total (2 courses) from the "Restricted Electives" groupings specified above toward the MPH 42-credit hour graduation requirement.
- Military aerospace medicine residents are required to take PHC6XXX Toxicology and PHC6XXX Aerospace Medicine for 6 of the required 18 credits in electives.