The following courses are approved as electives for the MPH across all specializations

Cereal and Food Sciences

• CFS 652 Food Laws & Regulations

Emergency Management (EMGT) 

• EMGT 614 Spatial Analysis in Emergency Management
• EMGT 620 Hazard, Risk, and Vulnerability Assessment (every other year)   

English (ENGL)

• ENGL 751 Tools for Academic Writing - Clarity and Style
• ENGL 752 Tools for Academic Writing: Writing Your Manuscript

Health, Nutrition & Exercise Sciences (HNES) 

• HNES 652 Nutrition, Health and Aging 
• HNES 721 Health Promotion Programming
• HNES 724 Nutrition Education (Every other year)                                       
• HNES 727 Physical Activity Epidemiology 
• HNES 777 Scholarly Writing and Presenting in Health, Nutrition, and Exercise Science

 Microbiology (MICR) 

• MICR 663 Clinical Parasitology 
• MICR 675 Animal Virology 
• MICR 781 Advanced Bacterial Physiology 

Public Health (PH) 

• PH 452/652 Lifestyle Approaches to Prevention, Treatment, and Reversal of Disease
• PH 700  Preventing and Managing Chronic Illness (Every other year)
• PH 705  Global Health (Every other year)   
• PH 711  Integrating Primary Care and Public Health
• PH 722  Applied Community Health
• PH 725  Promoting Health through Policy, System, and Environment
• PH 735  Principles of Infectious Diseases – I  
• PH 736  Principles of Infectious Diseases – II 
• PH 750  Epidemiologic Methods I
• PH 752  Epidemiologic Methods II
• PH 753  Public Health Surveillance
• PH 754  Health Survey Research
• PH 765  Cultural Competence in Health Professions
• PH 772  American Indian Health Equity
• PH 774  Research and Evaluation in Tribal Communities
• PH 781  Foundations of Maternal and Child Health
• PH 793  Independent Studey

 Statistics (STAT)

• STAT 670 Statistical SAS Programming

Students are to work with their advisor to select appropriate electives. Electives choices not on this pre-approved list may be acceptable upon approval of the advisor and department chair. Classes offered through the NDUS collaborative are also options for MPH students.