Curriculum – Community Health & Health Behavior Concentration
The following presents concentration-specific courses and optional electives required to complete the Community Health & Health Behavior Concentration.
| Focus | Courses | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Community Health & Health Behavior | MPH 6600 Planning Public Health Programs P: MPH 6013. Development and delivery of public health programs. | 3 |
| MPH 6605 Evaluating Public Health Programs P: MPH 6013, MPH 6600. Evaluation of public health programs, including formative, process, impact, and outcome evaluation. | 3 |
| Electives | Courses | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| MPH Courses (Select 3) | MPH 6005 African-American Health Comprehensive, holistic, and sociocultural perspective focusing on national, regional, state, county and local African-American health and health disparity issues leading toward developing public health interventions. | 3 |
| MPH 6007 Global Public Health: A Global Perspective Explores the issues related to the fields of medical anthropology and public health leading toward developing global health interventions. | 3 | |
| MPH 6036 Fundamentals in Agromedicine Occupational and environmental illnesses, injuries, and prevention in agriculture (farming, fishing, and forestry). | 3 | |
| MPH 6670 Public Health Perspectives on Maternal and Child Health Introduces students to maternal and child health (MCH), with primarily a domestic focus. Emphasis on understanding the role policies and programmatic issues play in MCH. Students will gain an understanding of key issues for MCH populations. (every other spring odd years) | 3 | |
| Preferred elective | MPH 7201 Introduction to Survey Methodology P: MPH 6020 and BIOS 7021; or consent of instructor. In addition to BIOS 7021, students should have taken one of the three concentration Research Methods core courses. Overview of principles and practices of population-based survey research, including methods, sampling designs, questionnaire development, sources of error, and analysis of survey data. | 3 |
| Communications | COMM 6210 Media and Health Communication P: Admission to MA in communication or graduate certificate in health communication, or consent of graduate program director. Theory and research of issues involving media and health. | 3 |
| COMM 6220 Interpersonal Health Communication P: Admission to MA in communication or graduate certificate in health communication, or consent of graduate program director. Theories and practices in various health care contexts, with emphasis on relationships among patients and health care providers. | 3 | |
| COMM 6221 Intercultural Communication in Health Contexts P: Admission to MA in communication or graduate certificate in health communication, or consent of graduate program director. Intercultural communication theory and research as they apply to health contexts. | 3 | |
| COMM 6224 Communication and Health Organizations P: Admission to MA in communication or graduate certificate in health communication, or consent of graduate program director. Analysis and practice of communication in health care settings. | 3 | |
| COMM 6226 Communication Approaches to Health Advocacy P: Admission to MA in communication or graduate certificate in health communication, or consent of graduate program director. Theories and practices of advocacy in health contexts. | 3 |