Degree Planner: Fall 2017 – Summer 2018 Entering Students
MPH:Community Health Practice
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CORE COURSES PUBLIC HEALTH CORE COURSES (16 credit hours)
Core courses can be taken at any point in the program unless they are a specific requirement for another course.
PHM 2610 / 3 / All-a,b,cd / Fundamentals of Epidemiology
PH 1690
PH 1700 / 4 / All-a,b,cd / Foundations of Biostatistics or
Intermediate Biostatistics
PHM 1110 / 3 / All-a,b,cd / Social and Behavioral Aspects of Community Health
PHWM 2120 or
PHM 2110 / 3 / a
Fa (a)
Sp (b) / Man’s Impact on the Environment
Or
Overview of Environmental Health
PHM 3715 / 3 / All,
a,b,cd / Introduction to Management and Policy Sciences
OTHER REQUIRED COURSE (1 credit hour)
PHM 5010 / 1 / Fa (a)
Sp (b) / Ethics in Public Health
MAJOR COURSES (15 credit hours)
PHM 3620 / 3 / Fa (a) / Principles and Practice of Public Health
PH 3800 / 3 / Fa (a) / Working with Diverse Communities
PHM 3630 / 3 / Sp (b) / Health Program Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation
PH 3998 / 3 / Sp (b) / Community Assessment Concepts, Methods, and Technologies
PHM 3922 / 3 / Sp (b) / Economic and Social Determinants of Health
CHOOSE 3 ELECTIVES FOR MAJOR FROM LIST ELECTIVE COURSES FOR MAJOR (7 credit hours)
PH 1232 / 3 / Sp (b) / Public Health Nutrition Practice
PH 1240 / 3 / Fa (a)
Sp (b) / Mental Health of Children and Adolescents
PHM 3998 / 3 / Sp (b) / Introduction to Geographic Information Systems Science
PH 1260 / 3 / Fa (a) / Chicano/Mexican American Health: Exploring its Social Dimensions
PH 1498 / 3 / Fa (a) / Adolescents Sexual Health
PHWM 2835 / 3 / Sp (b) / Injury Epidemiology
PH 1350 / 3 / Su (c) / Ethnicity, Race, Class and Gender: A multicultural Public health perspective (taught in even number years during summer)
PH 1118 / 4 / Fa (a) / Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods
PH 1119 / 3 / Sp (b) / Qualitative Methods
PH 1250 / 3 / Fa (a) / Genital, Sexual and Reproductive Public Health
PH 1430 / 3 / Fa (a) / Systematic Review Meta-Analysis and Evidence-based Public Health
PH 1498 / 1-4 / All -a,b,cd / Global and Local Aspects of Human Trafficking
PH 2998 / 1-4 / All -a,b,cd / Rapid Assessment Methods
PH 3998 / 4 / -- / Demography and Public Health
PH 3998 / 3 / All -a,b,cd / Thinking for Public Health
PH 3818 / 3 / Sp (b) / Texas Health Policy: Emerging Issues and New Approaches
PH 3825 / 3 / Sp (b) / Public Health Law
CULMINATING EXPERIENCE CULMINATING EXPERIENCE (3 credit hours)
PH 9996 or PH 9998 / 3 / All -a,b,cd / Capstone Course* or
Written Paper Option
PRACTICUM TOPIC AND SITE: PRACTICUM (3 credit hours)
PH 9997 / 3 / All -a,b,cd / Practicum
ELECTIVES – not required for graduation ELECTIVES AND OTHER (E.G. CONCENTRATIONS)
TOTAL CREDITS: / 45 or more
* All core courses and 30 completed credit hours. Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative – research ethics certification (CITI) must be completed
before registering for the Capstone Course. It is preferable that the Practicum be completed prior to the Capstone Course, but it may be completed concurrently.
CHECK COURSE SCHEDULE EACH TERM - Terms may change from those listed above
1Updated May 2017