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.

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