Curriculum

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Curriculum (72 credits) - Department of Epidemiology

Students seeking the Ph.D. in epidemiology degree must complete a  minimum of 72 credits of academic work with a minimum GPA of least 3.2 overall and a 3.2 in the set of required courses specified by their department; earn no more than 9 credits bearing grades less than B; and complete the degree requirements within nine years. Courses are 3 credits unless otherwise noted.

PREREQUISITES

• BIST 0654 - Biocomputing 1 (or equivalent)

CORE COURSES (9 credits)

• PHCO 0502 - Principles and Methods of Epidemiology (Prerequisite: Quantitative Skills Assessment)
• PHCO 0504 - Introduction to Biostatistics (Prerequisite: Quantitative Skills Assessment)
• PHCO 0508 - Issues in Environmental and Occupational Health (1 credit)
• PHCO 0510 - Issues in Health Education and Behavioral Science (1 credit)
• PHCO 0511 - Issues in Health Care Systems and Policy (1 credit)

REQUIRED COURSES (33 credits)

• EPID 0552 - Infectious Disease Epidemiology
• EPID 0652 - Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases
• EPID 0656 - Intermediate Epidemiologic Research Methods
  
• EPID 0657 - Applied Methods in Epidemiologic Research
  
• EPID 0753 - Advanced Epidemiologic Research Methods with Applications
• BIST 0551 - Applied Regression and Analysis for Public Health Studies
• BIST 0615 - Categorical Data Analysis
• BIST 0616 - Lifetime Data Analysis
• BIST 0650 - Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis
• ENOH 0594 - Environmental and Occupational Toxicology or other toxicology/biology course

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Choose one of the following two:


• HEBS 0663 - Intermediate Survey Research Methods
  
• EPID 0621 - Survey Research Methods Questionnaire Design

RECOMMENDED ELECTIVE COURSES (6 credits)

• EPID 0563 - Introduction to Outcomes Research
• EPID 0591 - Air Pollution Epidemiology (2 credits)
• EPID 0595 - Global Communicable Disease Control
• EPID 0607 - Perinatal Epidemiology
• EPID 0650 - Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
• EPID 0670 - Advanced Seminar in Epidemiology I
• EPID 0671 - Advanced Seminar in Epidemiology II
• EPID 0673 - Social Epidemiology
• EPID 9542 - GIS for Health and Planning
• EPID 9663 - Regression Analysis
• BIST 0655 - Biocomputing II
• BIST 0660 - Clinical Trials: Design and Analysis of Medical Experiments
• BIST 9655 - Nonparametric Statistics
• ENOH 9627 - Advanced Multivariate Methods for Environmental Health Issues
• PHCO 0503 - Introduction to Environmental Heath
  

REQUIRED RESEARCH (24 credits)

• RESH 0760 - Doctoral Research