Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) Curriculum (45 credits) - Department of Dental Public Health
Students seeking the M.P.H. in dental public health degree must complete 45 credits of academic work with a minimum GPA of least 3.0; earn no more than 9 credits bearing grades less than B; and complete the degree requirements within six years.
Courses are 3 credits unless otherwise noted.
CORE COURSES (15 credits)
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PHCO 0501 - Health Systems and Policy
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PHCO 0502 - Principles and Methods of
Epidemiology (Prerequisite: Quantitative Skills Assessment)
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PHCO 0503 - Introduction to Environmental Health
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PHCO 0504 - Introduction to Biostatistics
(Prerequisite: Quantitative Skills Assessment)
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PHCO 0505 - Health Education and Behavioral
Science in Public Health
FIELDWORK (6 credits)
- FDWC 0600 - Fieldwork I (1 credit)
- FDWC 0601 - Fieldwork II (5 credits)
REQUIRED COURSES (18 credits)
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DNPH 0611 - Public Policy and Oral Health
Service Administration
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DNPH 0612 - Advanced Informatics and Dental
Public Health
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DNPH 0617 - Program Planning and Resource
Allocation
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DNPH 0629 - Oral Epidemiology of Chronic and
Infectious Diseases
- BIST 0515 - Introduction to SAS and R for Data Analysis
in Public Health
- EPID 0584 - Computing II: EPI Info (1 credit)
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Choose one of the
following two:
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DNPH 0690 - Research Methods in Oral
Epidemiology
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DNPH 0694 - Research Methods in Public Policy
and Health Services Administration
RECOMMENDED ELECTIVE COURSES (6 credits)
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DNPH 0613 - Cariology
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DNPH 0614 - Oral Health Policy and Aging
- DNPH 0615 - Community Based Research in Dental
Public Health
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DNPH 0616 - Oral Health Promotion and Preventive
Dentistry
- DNPH 0625 - Design of Quasi-Experimental and
Experimental Studies
