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, Systems, 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: Introduction 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: Physical Health, Wellness, Nutrition, and Active 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. Elective 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.