Courses and schedules

Search for course names, descriptions and schedules available from the College of Public Health and university scheduling resources.

Course descriptions and schedules offered below are helpful guides to find courses offered by the College of Public Health. These tools are not meant to replace the official course catalog maintained by the University Registrar.

Undergraduate level courses are numbered 4000 and below, undergraduate/graduate level courses are numbered 5000, and all graduate level courses are numbered 6000 and higher. 

Public Health course catalog

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PUBHEHS 7193
Individual Studies in Environmental Health Sciences

Individual studies in environmental health sciences focusing on applied topics.

Prerequisite(s): None.

1‐6 Credits PUBHEHS

PUBHEHS 7194
Group Studies in Environmental Health Sciences

Group studies in Environmental Health Sciences.

Prerequisite(s): None.

1‐3 Credits PUBHEHS

PUBHEHS 7360
Water Contamination: Sources and Health Impact

Topics focus on understanding the sources, the transport mechanisms and the fate of microbial and chemical contaminants in water, human exposure risks, tracking methods, linking to other environmental matrices and the public health impacts.

Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate-level biology or permission of instructor.

3 Credits PUBHEHS

PUBHEHS 7365
Environmental and Human Health Risk Assessment

Students will learn about the development of the formal risk assessment process, its role in environmental and public health regulation in the United States and the four fundamental steps in a risk assessment. Students will learn about the interface between the risk assessment and risk management process.

3 Credits PUBHEHS

PUBHEHS 7375
Quantitative Microbial Risk Analysis Modeling

This course will outline the fundamental sciences and their application in microbial risk modeling.

Prerequisite(s): Graduate-level statistics or permission of instructor.

3 Credits PUBHEHS

PUBHEHS 7380
Exposure Science Monitoring Techniques I

This course will discuss the principles and practices of human exposure sampling of contaminants in environmental and biological matrices with special emphasis on the air matrix. In addition, students will be introduced to analytical techniques and instrumentation for air contaminants.

Prerequisite(s): None.

3 Credits PUBHEHS

PUBHEPI 2410
Epidemiology in Public Health

The course will cover the principles and procedures in the field of epidemiology, with a focus on the application of the principles of epidemiology. GEN theme health and well-being course.

Prerequisite(s): None.

3 Credits PUBHEPI

PUBHEPI 3193
Individual Studies in Epidemiology

Individual studies in Epidemiology focusing on applied topics.

Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.

1‐6 Credits PUBHEPI

PUBHEPI 3410H
Honors Case Studies in Public Health

This is an advanced undergraduate course in epidemiology that is designed for honors students in Public Health or a related field. Students will learn about how epidemiology is used in the field of public health through a case-study approach.

Prerequisite(s): Honors standing and 2410.

3 Credits PUBHEPI

PUBHEPI 3411
Public Health Field Investigation

This course provides an applied study in investigating and responding to outbreaks, disasters and other acute public health events.
GEN theme health and well-being course.

Prerequisite(s): None.

3 Credits PUBHEPI

PUBHEPI 4410
Conceptual Foundations of Social Epidemiology

This is an advanced undergraduate course in epidemiology that focuses on how social factors, including, but not limited to, education, neighborhood context, economic instability and structural and institutional racism are related to various population health outcomes. Students will learn theories that inform how social determinants of health are measured and how epidemiologists use these measures to identify determinants of disease and ill health among populations, especially historically marginalized and underserved groups.

Prerequisite(s): PUBHEPI 2410 or permission of instructor.

3 Credits PUBHEPI

PUBHEPI 4432
Injury: A Public Health Problem

This introductory course in injury prevention and control is designed primarily for upper‐division undergraduates. Students will be exposed to/learn to develop skills such as summarizing research findings, translating and communicating these findings to an identified audience and utilizing policy and advocacy for initiating public health change as it relates to injury prevention and control.

Prerequisite(s): 2410 and PUBHHBP 3510 or permission of instructor.

3 Credits PUBHEPI

PUBHEPI 4437
Cancer Epidemiology

This is an introductory course in cancer epidemiology designed specifically for undergraduate students.

Prerequisite(s): PUBHEPI 2410.

3 Credits PUBHEPI

PUBHEPI 5412
Global Epidemiology of Infectious Disease

This course is designed to provide students with an overview of the principles and practices of infectious diseases epidemiology with focus on how the presence and control of communicable diseases affects public health locally, nationally and internationally.

Prerequisite(s): None.

3 Credits PUBHEPI

PUBHEPI 5421
Mathematics of Infectious Disease Dynamics

Provides an introduction to mathematical modeling of infectious diseases, including techniques for building and analyzing disease models, and discussions of calibration and comparison of models with data. This course is intended for graduate students in public health or other related disciplines and for upper-level undergraduate and graduate mathematics students.

Prerequisite(s): Math 1152, 1172 or 153, or permission of instructor.

3 Credits PUBHEPI
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