Program Electives
The following courses are approved as electives for the MPH across all specializations
Public Health (PH)
- 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 761 Injury Prevention
- PH 765 Cultural Competence in Health Professions
- PH 781 Foundations of Maternal and Child Health
- PH 782 Intro to Maternal Child Health Epidemiology
- PH 785 Women's Health
- PH 790 Graduate Seminar
- PH 793 Independent Study
English (ENGL)
- ENGL 659 Researching and Writing Grants and Proposals
- ENGL 751 Tools for Academic Writing - Clarity and Style
- ENGL 752 Tools for Academic Writing: Writing Your Manuscript
Health, Nutrition and Exercise Science (HNES)
- HNES 652 Nutrition, Health, and Aging
- HNES 727 Physical Activity Epidemiology
Statistics (STAT)
- STAT 670 Statistical SAS Programming
- STAT 711 Basic Computational Statistics using R
- STAT 712 Applied Statistical Machine Learning
- STAT 713 Introduction to Data Science
- STAT 714 Statistical Big Data Visualization
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 may also be options for NDSU MPH students.