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Twin Cities Campus
Epidemiology M.S.School 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
Along with the program-specific requirements listed below, please read the
General Information section of
this
website for requirements that apply to all major fields.
Note: Students are not admitted directly into the MS Epidemiology program; it is available only by special arrangement. Students interested in a master's degree in epidemiology should apply for the master of public health (MPH) degree through the School of Public Health.
Program Delivery
Prerequisites for Admission
The preferred undergraduate GPA for admittance to the program
is 3.00.
Other requirements to be completed before admission:
Please visit www.sph.umn.edu for admission requirements.
Special Application Requirements:
Students are not admitted directly into the MS program.
International applicants must submit score(s) from one of the following tests:
Key to test
abbreviations
(TOEFL, IELTS, MELAB).
For an online application or for more information about graduate education admissions, see the
General Information section of this
website.
Program Requirements
Plan B: Plan B requires
38
major credits and
0
credits outside the major.
The final exam is oral.
A capstone project is required.
Capstone Project:A master's project is required, equivalent to approximately 4 semester credits.
This program may be completed with a minor.
Use of 4xxx courses towards program requirements is not permitted.
A minimum GPA of 3.00
is required for students to remain in good standing.
At least 1 semesters must be completed
before filing a Degree Program Form.
These requirements apply only to students admitted by special arrangement with the program; students are not admitted directly into the Epidemiology MS program.
Courses must be taken A/F, unless offered only S/N. The minimum grade required for each A/F-graded course is B-.
Required Coursework (13 credits)
Complete the following:
PUBH 6348 - Writing Research Grants
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6742 - Ethics in Public Health: Research and Policy
(1.0 cr)
PUBH 7401 - Fundamentals of Biostatistical Inference
(4.0 cr)
PUBH 8341 - Advanced Epidemiologic Methods: Concepts
(3.0 cr)
PUBH 8342 - Advanced Epidemiologic Methods: Applications
(3.0 cr)
Electives (25 credits)
Select elective courses from the following list, or other electives to meet the 38-credit minimum. All courses must be selected in consultation with the advisor.
PUBH 6074 - Mass Communication and Public Health
(3.0 cr)
PUBH 6078 - Public Health Policy as a Prevention Strategy
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6094 - Interventions to Address Weight-Related Health and Eating Disorders
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6140 - Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6333 - Principles of Human Behavior I
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6334 - Human Behavior II
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6355 - Pathophysiology of Human Disease
(4.0 cr)
PUBH 6370 - Social Epidemiology
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6375 {Inactive}
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6381 - Genetics in Public Health in the Age of Precision Medicine
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 6383 {Inactive}
(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 6915 - Nutrition Assessment
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 7391 - Independent Study: Epidemiology
(1.0-4.0 cr)
PUBH 7392 - Readings in Epidemiology
(1.0-4.0 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 8141 - Doctoral Seminar in Observational Inference
(2.0 cr)
PUBH 8300 - Topics: Epidemiology
(1.0-4.0 cr)
PUBH 8343 - Synthesis and Application of Methods in Epidemiologic Research
(3.0 cr)
PUBH 8804 - Advanced Quantitative Methods Seminar
(3.0 cr)
VMED 5180 - Ecology of Infectious Disease
(3.0 cr)
VMED 8090 - Epidemiology of Zoonoses and Diseases Common to Animals and Humans
(3.0 cr)
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