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Twin Cities Campus
Public Health MinorSchool of Public Health - Adm
School of Public Health
Link to a list of faculty for this program.
Contact Information
School of Public Health, MMC 819, A395 Mayo Memorial Building, 420 Delaware Street, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (612-626-3500 OR 1-800-774-8636)
Email:
sph-ask@umn.edu
Website: http://www.sph.umn.edu
The graduate minor in public health is designed to prepare professionals in health and other fields (e.g., law, business, architecture, urban planning, teaching and engineering, including dual-degree students) to understand how their professional activities impact the health of communities, and to work together across disciplines, organizations, and sectors on innovative strategies to improve population health.
Accreditation
This program is accredited by Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH)
Program Delivery
Prerequisites for Admission
The preferred undergraduate GPA for admittance to the program
is 3.00.
Other requirements to be completed before admission:
Admission to the public health graduate minor is contingent upon enrollment in a master's or doctoral degree-granting program at the University of Minnesota. Students enrolled in graduate programs within the School of Public Health are not eligible for this minor.
Consult with your advisor and the public health director of graduate studies regarding the option of a minor in public health.
For an online application or for more information about graduate education admissions, see the
General Information section of this
website.
Program Requirements
Use of 4xxx courses towards program requirements is not permitted.
Required courses must be taken A-F, and a minimum grade of B- must be earned.
The overall minimum GPA for coursework applied to the minor is 3.0.
Required Coursework (8 credits)
Program Sub-plans
Students are required to complete one of the following sub-plans.
Students may not complete the program with more than one sub-plan.
Masters
Doctoral
Doctoral Electives (6 credits)
Select 6 credits, in consultation with the Public Health director of graduate studies, to complete the 14-credit requirement.
PUBH 6034 - Evaluation I: Concepts
(3.0 cr)
PUBH 6055 - Social Inequalities in Health
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6066 - Building Communities, Increasing Health: Preparing for Community Health Work
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6074 - Mass Communication and Public Health
(3.0 cr)
PUBH 6078 - Public Health Policy as a Prevention Strategy
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6108 - Foundations of Global Health
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6112 - Environmental Health Risk Assessment: Application to Human Health Risks from Exposure to Chemicals
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6120 - Injury Prevention in the Workplace, Community, and Home
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6123 - Violence Prevention and Control: Theory, Research, and Application
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6131 - Working in Global Health
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6132 - Air, Water, and Health
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6134 - Sustainable Development and Global Public Health
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6140 - Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6159 - Principles of Toxicology I
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6160 - Principles of Toxicology II
(3.0 cr)
PUBH 6161 - Regulatory Toxicology
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6170 - Introduction to Occupational Health and Safety
(3.0 cr)
PUBH 6173 - Exposure to Physical Agents
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6181 - Surveillance of Foodborne Diseases and Food Safety Hazards
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6182 - Emerging Infectious Disease: Current Issues, Policies, and Controversies
(3.0 cr)
PUBH 6190 - Environmental Chemistry
(3.0 cr)
PUBH 6333 - Principles of Human Behavior I
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6334 - Human Behavior II
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6342 - Epidemiologic Methods II
(3.0 cr)
PUBH 6348 - Writing Research Grants
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6355 - Pathophysiology of Human Disease
(4.0 cr)
PUBH 6370 - Social Epidemiology
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6381 - Genetics in Public Health in the Age of Precision Medicine
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6385 - Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6386 - Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6387 - Cancer Epidemiology
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6389 - Nutritional Epidemiology
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6451 - Biostatistics II
(4.0 cr)
PUBH 6556 - Health and Health Systems
(3.0 cr)
PUBH 6605 - Sexual, Reproductive, and Perinatal Public Health
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6636 - Qualitative Research Methods in Public Health Practice
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6675 - Women's Health
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6717 - Decision Analysis for Health Care
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6724 - The Health Care System and Public Health
(3.0 cr)
PUBH 6727 - Health Leadership and Effecting Change
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6735 - Principles of Health Policy
(3.0 cr)
PUBH 6744 - State Health Policy and Politics
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6751 - Principles of Management in Health Services Organizations
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6803 - Conducting a Systematic Literature Review
(3.0 cr)
PUBH 6804 - Mental Health Policy
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6806 - Principles of Public Health Research
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6809 - Advanced Methods in Health Decision Science
(3.0 cr)
PUBH 6810 - Survey Research Methods
(3.0 cr)
PUBH 6815 - Community-based Participatory Research
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6832 - Economics of the Health Care System
(3.0 cr)
PUBH 6845 - Using Demographic Data for Policy Analysis
(3.0 cr)
PUBH 6852 - Program Evaluation in Health and Mental Health Settings
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6862 - Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care
(3.0 cr)
PUBH 6863 - Understanding Health Care Quality
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6864 - Conducting Health Outcomes Research
(3.0 cr)
PUBH 7250 - Designing and Conducting Focus Group Interviews
(1.0 cr)
PUBH 7401 - Fundamentals of Biostatistical Inference
(4.0 cr)
PUBH 7402 - Biostatistics Modeling and Methods
(4.0 cr)
PUBH 7405 - Biostatistical Inference I
(4.0 cr)
PUBH 7406 - Biostatistical Inference II
(3.0 cr)
PUBH 7420 - Clinical Trials: Design, Implementation, and Analysis
(3.0 cr)
PUBH 7430 - Statistical Methods for Correlated Data
(3.0 cr)
PUBH 7445 - Statistics for Human Genetics and Molecular Biology
(3.0 cr)
PUBH 7450 - Survival Analysis
(3.0 cr)
PUBH 8160 - Advanced Toxicology
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 8341 - Advanced Epidemiologic Methods: Concepts
(3.0 cr)
PUBH 8342 - Advanced Epidemiologic Methods: Applications
(3.0 cr)
PUBH 8801 - Health Services Policy Analysis: Theory
(1.0 cr)
PUBH 8802 - Health Services Policy Analysis: Applications
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 8811 - Research Methods in Health Care
(3.0 cr)
PUBH 8821 - Health Economics II
(3.0 cr)
PUBH 6102 - Issues in Environmental Health
(2.0 cr)
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Course Equivalencies: | PubH 6320PubH /6341 |
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Course Equivalencies: | Jour 5541/PubH 6074 |
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Course Equivalencies: | Nurs/PubH 5170 |
Typically offered: | Every Fall & Summer |
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Credits: | 2.0 [max 2.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | PubH 5181/VMed 5165 |
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Credits: | 2.0 [max 2.0] |
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Credits: | 4.0 [max 4.0] |
Typically offered: | Every Fall & Spring |
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Course Equivalencies: | PubH 6735/PubH 6835. |
Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
Typically offered: | Every Fall |
Credits: | 2.0 [max 2.0] |
Typically offered: | Every Spring |
Credits: | 2.0 [max 2.0] |
Grading Basis: | A-F only |
Typically offered: | Every Fall, Spring & Summer |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Grading Basis: | OPT No Aud |
Typically offered: | Every Spring |
Credits: | 2.0 [max 2.0] |
Typically offered: | Periodic Spring |
Credits: | 2.0 [max 2.0] |
Typically offered: | Every Fall & Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Grading Basis: | OPT No Aud |
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Grading Basis: | OPT No Aud |
Typically offered: | Every Spring |
Credits: | 2.0 [max 2.0] |
Grading Basis: | OPT No Aud |
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Grading Basis: | A-F only |
Typically offered: | Every Spring |
Credits: | 2.0 [max 2.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | PubH 6034/PubH 6852 |
Grading Basis: | A-F only |
Typically offered: | Every Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Typically offered: | Every Spring |
Credits: | 2.0 [max 2.0] |
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Credits: | 1.0 [max 1.0] |
Grading Basis: | OPT No Aud |
Typically offered: | Every Spring & Summer |
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Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
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Credits: | 2.0 [max 2.0] |
Grading Basis: | A-F only |
Typically offered: | Every Fall |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
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Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Typically offered: | Every Spring |
Credits: | 1.0 [max 3.0] |
Typically offered: | Every Fall |
Credits: | 2.0 [max 2.0] |
Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
Typically offered: | Spring Odd Year |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
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Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud |
Typically offered: | Spring Even Year |
Credits: | 2.0 [max 2.0] |
Grading Basis: | A-F only |
Typically offered: | Every Fall, Spring & Summer |