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.

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