Curriculum

Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) Curriculum (45 credits) - 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)

• PHCO 0501 - Health Systems and Policy
• PHCO 0502 - Principles and Methods of Epidemiology (Prerequisite: Quantitative Skills Assessment)
• PHCO 0503 - Introduction to Environmental Health
• PHCO 0504 - Introduction to Biostatistics (Prerequisite: Quantitative Skills Assessment)
• PHCO 0505 - Social and Behavioral Health Sciences in Public Health

FIELDWORK (6 credits)

• FDWC 0600 - Fieldwork I (1 credit)
• FDWC 0601 - Fieldwork II (5 credits)

REQUIRED COURSES (18 credits)

• DNPH 0611 - Public Policy and Oral Health Service Administration
• DNPH 0612 - Advanced Informatics and Dental Public Health
• DNPH 0617 - Program Planning and Resource Allocation
• DNPH 0629 - Oral Epidemiology of Chronic and Infectious Diseases
  
• BIST 0515 - Introduction to SAS and R for Data Analysis in Public Health

              -also-

    Choose one of the following two:

• DNPH 0690 - Research Methods in Oral Epidemiology
• DNPH 0694 - Research Methods in Public Policy and Health Services Administration

RECOMMENDED ELECTIVE COURSES (6 credits)

• DNPH 0613 - Cariology
• DNPH 0614 - Oral Health Policy and Aging 
• DNPH 0615 - Community Based Research in Dental Public Health
• DNPH 0616 - Oral Health Promotion and Preventive Dentistry
• DNPH 0625 - Design of Quasi-Experimental and Experimental Studies